< Russian Ógpu, for Obʾʾedinënnoe gosudárstvennoe politícheskoe upravlénie Unified State Political Directorate
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Moura would surely not have bothered with this deception if two years earlier she had confessed to being a regular visitor to the Soviet Union in the pay of OGPU.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2011
He began his reign by purging the ranks of the NKVD, successor to the OGPU.
From Time Magazine Archive
Attached to his nationwide espionage service, the Gay-Pay-Oo, or OGPU, are 110,000 picked troops, the praetorians of the Dictatorship.
From Time Magazine Archive
But before Nachman is sacrificed to the OGPU, Author Singer has long ago sacrificed him as a plausible character.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he takes the girls picnicking, Ogpu guards form a discreet ring around them.
From Time Magazine Archive
He retains command of a large part of the Ogpu Special Troops, an army of super-drilled and super-equipped Praetorian Guards of the Soviet Regime.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ogpu, in bringing Radek to trial, stuck into the prisoner's box last week the most impish and irrepressible Communist who has ever risen high in that somewhat solemn Party.
From Time Magazine Archive
For this reason it is said that "The Ogpu is the State."
From Time Magazine Archive
Washington was getting too small for Requisitioning's expanding Ogpu; its boss, Ernie Tupper, went to Manhattan, looked at space in the Empire State Building.
From Time Magazine Archive
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