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He maintained that this power should not be mistaken for the instruments of that power: the military, the secret-police, the bureaucracy, the propaganda, the censors, et al.

Jamyang Norbu: Seeking the Power of the Powerless Jamyang Norbu 2011

He maintained that this power should not be mistaken for the instruments of that power: the military, the secret-police, the bureaucracy, the propaganda, the censors, et al.

Jamyang Norbu: Seeking the Power of the Powerless Jamyang Norbu 2011

Mr. Barker likens it to "The Lives of Others," the 2007 film about an East German secret-police officer which grossed more than $77 million world-wide and won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.

An Acclaimed Movie, a Marketing Challenge Rachel Dodes 2012

In addition, his track record as an activist in the peaceful revolution of 1989 that brought down Communist East Germany, and subsequently as overseer of the Stasi secret-police archives, make him anathema for Left members with roots in the former Communist regime.

Germany's Presidential Election Tests Merkel 2010

Mr. Putin, briefly the FSB's boss in the late 1990s, gave the secret-police agency free rein after taking over as Russia's president from the ailing Boris Yeltsin in 2000.

State Security, Post-Soviet Style 2010

You dont look like a secret-police agent but thats what you sound like, she scolded.

The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009

You dont look like a secret-police agent but thats what you sound like, she scolded.

The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009

You dont look like a secret-police agent but thats what you sound like, she scolded.

The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009

For millions of Eastern Europeans, that was the basic survival strategy under communist regimes whose tentacles — and secret-police informants — reached deep into every facet of life.

Still Scaling the Wall 2009

In Hungary, where post-communists have been in power for seven years, key secret-police archives remain closed.

Still Scaling the Wall 2009