How to Use the secret police in a Sentence
the secret police
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Delcy is the one who is really in charge of the secret police and the repressive apparatus.
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CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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The Gestapo was the secret police force of Nazi Germany that helped round up Jews and send them to their deaths at concentration camps.
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Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
19 Jan. 2026
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Kornyev does his utmost to meet the prisoner, a victim of agents of the secret police, the NKVD.
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Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2026
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Kornyev’s client is the barely hanging on Stepinak (Aleksandr Filippenko), a Bolshevik targeted by the secret police told to muzzle and expunge dissenters.
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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More generally, the objectives of AI are determined by those with social power, whether that is in the criminal justice system, in education, in medicine, or in the secret police forces of autocratic surveillance states.
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Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Natalie Portman stars as Evey, a young working-class woman rescued from the secret police by a masked freedom fighter known only as V (Hugo Weaving), who is leading a plot to take down the oppressors in dramatic fashion.
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Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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His regime was notorious for human rights abuses conducted by the secret police (SAVAK), which was trained by the CIA and Israel’s Mossad.
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Chicago Tribune,
3 Mar. 2026
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