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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Secret Service"”.
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Agency of Crisis: The Chaos and Reordering of Presidential Security
… opportunities for an organization like the Secret Service to mold a crisis moment through the production of knowledge and meaning. To examine how the Secret Service responded to these shocks, this thesis examines a series of case studies ranging from the attempted assassination of Roland …
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Presidential Security: Bodies, Bubbles, & Bunkers
… the friend/enemy distinction. The United States Service has had to continually think and re-think the concept of presidential security in order to provide suitable protection for the President of the United States. In creating these spaces of protection, the practices of the Secret Service have …
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A comparison of secret police systems in Peronist Argentina and Stalinist Russia.
… the most important instrument of fear is a secret police system which has been institutionalized to create the required atmosphere of terror. The understanding of such an instrument of terror as a political unit is of vast importance to every citizen of the free world. Through the comparison …
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17 November and the Strategy of Deception: Was Golitsyn Right?
… in the future. On 17 November 1989, Czechoslovak secret police provocateurs led an official communist student demonstration away from its approved course of march in Prague. When the police surrounded and viciously attacked the crowd of protestors, one of the secret police agents posed as a dead …
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Beset By Secrecy And Beleaguered By Rivals: The Special Operations Executive and Military Operations In Western Europe 1940-1942 With Special Reference to Operation Frankton
… Executive (SOE), Britain's clandestine secret service created by Winston Churchill in 1940 to 'set Europe ablaze.' It will examine the climate in which SOE was created, the feasibility of the tasks it was expected to perform and the relationships it established with Churchill, the …
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Every Parent's Worst Nightmare: Surveillance of Criteria-based, Rampage School Shooters, 1995-2015
… Shooters don’t “… ‘just snap’… They plan” (U.S. Secret Service, 2002, p. 11). This descriptive, exploratory study consists of RSS cases (N=59) derived from triangulated, retrospective, historical accounts (1995-2015). A quantitative, non-experimental research design was employed.</p> <p>The …
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The Controversial Career of George Nicholas Sanders
… after numerous business ventures, he joined the secret service operation in Canada. Sanders was instrumental in organizing the St. Albans raid in Vermont and the abortive Niagara peace conference, two seemingly contradictory projects. Both were designed to achieve a favorable end to the war for …
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State of distrust: interpreting 1970s Italy through the seriality of news media and the poliziottesco.
… of the police, the judiciary, and the secret service on the negotiation of the blame for state inefficiency against political and criminal violence. Focusing specifically on the “conspiracy mode” (Fisher 2014, p. 173) of the poliziottesco, which centres on state-driven conspiracies, …