The OVRA, unoffically known as the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (Italian: Opera Vigilanza Repressione Antifascismo), was the...

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...

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...

emergence of the Black Brigades (brigate nere). The GNR consisted of former OVRA, carabinieri, soldiers, Italian Africa Police, and others still loyal to...

incipient resistance in the cities and provinces. He would later form the OVRA, an institutionalised secret police that carried official state support....

known as the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (OVRA). During the 1920s, anti-fascists, many of them from the labour movement...

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...

traitor to his party and a spy for the OVRA. There are, it is said, the documents. But which documents? The OVRA documents, cut and stitched together in...

they had long lived apart). He had worked in the 1930s as an informant for OVRA, the Fascist secret service, but was dismissed in 1939 after being exposed...

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...