The OVRA, unoffically known as the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (Italian: Opera Vigilanza Repressione Antifascismo), was the...
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the head both of the regular police (State Police) and the secret police (OVRA) which was a pervasive national security agency that operated at all levels...
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incipient resistance in the cities and provinces. He would later form the OVRA, an institutionalised secret police that carried official state support....
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emergence of the Black Brigades (brigate nere). The GNR consisted of former OVRA, carabinieri, soldiers, Italian Africa Police, and others still loyal to...
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worked in the 1930s as an informant for the Italian fascist secret service OVRA but was dismissed in 1939 after being exposed in Paris. Pitigrilli had travelled...
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around 1938 La Cagoule:A number of Mod.1918/30 carbines were smuggled by OVRA in exchange for favours to the Italian government. Hafdasa C-4, an Argentine...
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dismantled by the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (OVRA) in 1940 and 1941, and after June 1941 most of its former activists joined...
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Leto (Palermo, 1895 – 1956) was an Italian police official, head of the OVRA, the secret police of the Fascist regime, from 1938 to 1945. Throughout his...
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dismantled by the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (OVRA) in 1940 and 1941, and after June 1941 most of its former activists joined...
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terrorized incipient resistances in the cities and provinces and established the OVRA, an institutionalized secret police that carried official state support....
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