Approximately 5, 000 OVRA agents infiltrated most aspects of domestic life in Italy.

In 1943, with the Allied invasion of Italy, the OVRA began to recruit double agents to infiltrate the British SOE, but these efforts failed to stop Mussolini's ouster.

With the establishment of the Italian Social Republic in northern Italy, many OVRA agents flocked to this state led by Mussolini, fighting until Mussolini was executed by partisans on April 28, 1945.

The German Gestapo were the equivalent of the OVRA.

It is believed that about 4, 000 people were arrested by the OVRA and either tried by the Tribunale Speciale or sent into exile on remote Mediterranean islands.

), and that many of the former officers of the OVRA were being reinstated as members of the new SIS.

Most of the laws and regulations of the old TULPS of 1931 were kept in force by the Republic of Italy, and the same former boss of OVRA Guido Leto was later reinstated as a fully fledged national Police officer, and entrusted with the supervision and coordination of Police academies in postwar Italy.

After the war ended the OVRA was officially disbanded, but a Decree issued on April 26, 1945, stated that the CPC should be maintained and " updated with all the information pertaining to anybody whose political activity is aimed at breaking the laws and regulations enacted by the democratic Government against neo-Fascism, anarchists who are by definition against any law and government, and political activists whose moral depravity and contempt of law could prompt them to instigate unrest or commit acts of terrorism ".

The Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell ' Antifascismo ( OVRA ; Italian for " Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism ") was the secret police of the Kingdom of Italy, founded in 1927 under the regime of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and during the reign of King Victor Emmanuel III.

The OVRA was headed by Arturo Bocchini.

Later on this division came to be known as OVRA, although its existence remained secret until December 1930 when the official press agency Stefani released a statement quoting the OVRA as a " special section " of the police.

Bocchini appointed inspector Francesco Nudi as head of the OVRA.

It is known that Heinrich Himmler met with Bocchini repeatedly and modeled the organization of the Gestapo on that of the OVRA.

One of the chief duties of the OVRA was to operate and maintain the CPC (" Casellario Politico Centrale "), a special archive where all personal information about known " subversives " was dutifully compiled to create a " personal profile " containing all data concerning the subject's education, culture and habits, down to the minute details about his personal character and his sexual orientation.

As a result, the actions of the OVRA have been massively overshadowed by the actions of their contemporaries — the Gestapo and SS in Nazi Germany and the NKVD in the Soviet Union.

During World War II, the OVRA was used by Mussolini to control resistance groups in the Balkans ( Tito's National Liberation Army especially ) prior to the 1943 armistice and withdrawal.

Fearing a conflict with the fascists, the ruling class thus handed power to Mussolini, who went on to install the dictatorship after the 10 June 1924 assassination of Giacomo Matteotti-who had finished writing The Fascist Exposed: A Year of Fascist Domination-executed by Amerigo Dumini, leader of the Ceka, the secret police agency precursor to the OVRA.

The OVRA, Organizzazione di Vigilanza Repressione dell ' Antifascismo Organization for Vigilance in Repression of Anti-Fascism was a secret police organization in Italy during fascism.

When he makes friends with Andreas Zaleshoff, an American businessman of Russian descent whose office is in the same building, he learns from the latter that Bellinetti is an agent for the OVRA and watching each and every step Marlow takes, and that his predecessor's accident — he was run over by a car in a dark and foggy street of Milan — was in fact cold-blooded politically motivated murder.

On 17 November 1941 Končar was arrested by the Italian OVRA.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

Adams depended largely on the dispatches of foreign ambassadors and observers in England, claiming that the reports of such agents had to be accurate because there were no newspapers.

For Mrs. Shaefer -- who had been given a clean bill of health by her own physician at the time she visited Lee -- and her friend were agents for the California Pure Food and Drug Inspection Bureau.

In answering these questions, we need to ask not merely whether Communist troops have crossed over into territories they did not occupy before, and not merely whether disciplined agents of the Cominform are in control of governments from which they were formerly excluded: the success of Communism's war against the West does not depend on such spectacular and definitive conquests.

These agents were to ascertain the difference between English and French goods, and the prices charged the Indians.

-- Vital secrets of Britain's first atomic submarine, the Dreadnought, and, by implication, of the entire United States navy's still-building nuclear sub fleet, were stolen by a London-based soviet spy ring, secret service agents testified today.

Although federal and city narcotic agents sometimes worked together, Sokol continued, rivalries developed when they were `` aiming at the same criminals ''.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

Officeholders were the agents of the people, not their representatives.

This was all done under complete secrecy during the playing season because players were all free agents in those days and they did not want their current club and especially the fans to know they were leaving to play elsewhere the next year.

In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I, Fleming described an ingenious experiment, which he was able to conduct as a result of his own glass blowing skills, in which he explained why antiseptics were killing more soldiers than infection itself during World War I. Antiseptics worked well on the surface, but deep wounds tended to shelter anaerobic bacteria from the antiseptic agent, and antiseptics seemed to remove beneficial agents produced that protected the patients in these cases at least as well as they removed bacteria, and did nothing to remove the bacteria that were out of reach.

On July 6, the arrival of a force of 300 Pinkerton agents from New York City and Chicago resulted in a fight in which 10 men — seven strikers and three Pinkertons — were killed and hundreds were injured.

The Diamondbacks were considered by some to be the favorite to win the division after spending on the aforementioned free agents ; however, injuries hurt the team's chances of reaching its expected potential.

Angels, especially the archangel Michael, who were depicted as military-style agents of God, came to be shown wearing Late Antique military uniform.

Abbasid agents closed in on Abd al-Rahman and his family while they were hiding in a small village.

The United States government, its allies, and journalists exhaustively studied the possibility that yellow rain attacks had occurred and concluded that the evidence supports the contention that trichothecene mycotoxins were used as biological warfare agents in Afghanistan and in Southeast Asia.

These agents were prepared to spray them down from tanks attached to airplanes over hundreds of miles.

In the First World War, German agents were arrested attempting to inoculate draft animals with anthrax, and they were believed to be responsible for outbreaks of glanders in horses and mules.

SDP polling agents were given special dispensation by the Returning Officer to have placards outside of polling stations to state which one on the ballot papers was the ' real Roy '.

Banda was the world's only source of nutmeg and mace, spices used as flavourings, medicines, preserving agents, that were at the time highly valued in European markets ; sold by Arab traders to the Venetians for exorbitant prices.

Though sarin, tabun and soman were incorporated into artillery shells, the German government ultimately decided not to use nerve agents against Allied targets.

Note that two of these targets are toxins ( botulinum and ricin ) while the remainder are infectious agents.

Though sarin, tabun and soman were incorporated into artillery shells, Germany ultimately decided not to use nerve agents against Allied targets.

On November 20, the assassination teams, which included the Squad and members of the IRA's Dublin Brigade, were briefed on their targets, who included 20 agents at eight different locations in Dublin.

While DEA agents claim they are merely upholding federal law and only going after " major traffickers ," advocates claim the DEA targets the most prominent political activists with their raids.

If an announcement about low-level inflation targets is made but not believed by private agents, wage-setting will anticipate high-level inflation and so wages will be higher and inflation will rise.

Being of crucial importance to gram-negative bacteria, these molecules make candidate targets for new antimicrobial agents.

Anticholinergics are divided into three categories in accordance with their specific targets in the central and / or peripheral nervous system: antimuscarinic agents, ganglionic blockers, and neuromuscular blockers.

This definition did not exclude actions by the United States government and it was qualified some months later with " premeditated, politically motivated violence against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents ".

These sleeper agents are then used by enemy forces to spy, to conduct sabotage, to assassinate certain targets, or for other operations the enemy has in mind for them.

The majority of the targets were public buildings and the offices of estate agents.

His Scourge agents operate through subterfuge to get close to targets, then kill them.

FBI agents Thomas Mackelway ( Aaron Eckhart ) and Fran Kulok ( Carrie-Anne Moss ) are put on the trail of Ben O ' Ryan ( Ben Kingsley ), a serial killer who exclusively targets other serial killers.

Federal Air Marshal Frank Terreri of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association ( FLEOA ) successfully sued senior executives of the Department of Homeland Security complaining that policies prevented air marshals from speaking out that current policies ( such as their strict dress code, " Federal Air Marshal discount " mandatory grouping hotel policy, airport policies that force air marshals to walk up security checkpoint exit lanes, and priority aircraft pre-boarding before handicapped passengers and passengers flying with small children ) make marshals easy targets for any possible hijackers, making them stand out as the government agents concealing firearms, and thus eliminating their effectiveness.

American counterintelligence is thrown into confusion when seemingly-ordinary citizens start blowing up what are, in some cases, outdated targets consisting of formerly top secret facilities that were declassified or abandoned years prior ; the agents commit suicide right afterwards.

In addition, the player can use items such as medikits to heal his agents, scanners to locate pedestrians / vehicles and the " Persuadertron " to brainwash the player's targets into blind obedience.

* Multiplicity of infection, the ratio of infectious agents to infection targets

For example, during the Cold War, several female West German civil servants were tricked into stealing classified documents by agents of the East German Stasi intelligence service, pretending to be members of West German peace advocacy groups ( the Stasi agents were also described as " Romeos ," indicating that they also used their sex appeal to manipulate their targets, making this operation a combination of the false flag and " honey trap " techniques ).

In Australia, the Security Legislation Amendment ( Terrorism ) Act 2002, defines terrorism as " an action to advance a political, religious or ideological cause and with the intention of coercing the government or intimidating the public ", while the United States Department of State operationally describes it as " premeditated, politically-motivated violence perpetrated against non-combatant targets by sub national groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience ".

According to the field manual on the Rule of Land Warfare, " The use of weapons which employ fire, such as tracer ammunition, flamethrowers, napalm and other incendiary agents, against targets requiring their use is not violative of international law.

The setup used for training OSS agents was quite a bit different from the modern Hogan's Alley, since lack of simulated munitions meant that training with live targets was not possible.

The OSS agents trained using pop-up targets and reduced caliber,. 22 Long Rifle pistols to minimize the danger and the damage to the facility, but it was still live ammunition and potentially lethal.

Mossad agents awaited the forces on the beaches with cars rented the previous day, and then drove them to their targets and later back to the beaches for extraction.