secret-service

The closest thing to a portrayal of a happy marriage is Castle's in "The Human Factor" (1978), and it is one founded in tenderness and fear (she is black; he is white and has used his secret-service contacts to get her out of apartheid-era South Africa, leading him to eventually betray England).

Adventures in Greeneland Allan Massie 2012

It had been reported to the Speaker of the House, by secret-service agents of the government, that the Socialist Congressmen were about to resort to terroristic tactics, and that they had decided upon the day when their tactics would go into effect.

Chapter 17: The Scarlet Livery 2010

Or if some of the other secret-service comrades who have learned the truth can get there in time. '

Chapter 22: The Chicago Commune 2010

He distanced the agency from the use of torture to obtain intelligence, a hotly debated issue in the U.K., where secret-service agencies have faced allegations of being complicit in abuse.

British Spy Chief Breaks Agency's History of Silence Cassell Bryan-Low 2010

Great writers like Zoe Heller and Dara Horn and Binnie Kirshenbaum; important works of non-fiction about art in the Great Depression, the birth of Barbie, surviving infertility, a biography of Louis Brandeis and the amazing but true story of how the Israeli secret-service captured Adolf Eichmann.

Philip Roth Will Not Be Here Saturday Night. Just His Work. « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009

Rex, as a self-regarding dog of a man, at least recognises that family bonds have no place in an inter-planetary polysexual secret-service.

Torchwood: Miracle Day – episode four 2011

But in 1960, Mossad secret-service agents traced him in hiding and smuggled him to Israel.

Anything but Banal David Pryce-Jones 2011

It was always in the way, he was averring, while Hartman was talking back to him and with fitting secret-service pride explaining to him the clumsiness of the police.

Chapter 22: The Chicago Commune 2010

The government plans to triple its secret-service numbers to 1,860 by July this year, and is building a new high-security office on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, the country's capital.

Australia to Maintain Troops in Afghanistan Geoffrey Rogow 2011

When a Milan judge stated yesterday that Italy's secret-service agency was perhaps complicit in the 2003 abduction and rendition of an Egyptian cleric, it confirmed the long-held suspicions of many Italians.

John H. Tucker: Judge's Failure to Convict Intelligence Agents Is a Blow to Italy's Justice System 2010