| secret ballot | a vote in which each person's choice is secret but the totaled votes are public |
cryptography
coding
secret writing
steganography | act of writing in code or cipher |
mission
charge commission | a special assignment that is given to a person or group, a confidential mission to London, his charge was deliver a message |
perpetration
commission committal | the act of committing a crime |
| commission commissioning | the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions |
mystery
enigma
secret
closed book | something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained, how it got out is a mystery, it remains one of nature's secrets |
plot
secret plan
game | a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal), they concocted a plot to discredit the governor, I saw through his little game from the start |
cryptogram
cryptograph secret writing | a piece of writing in code or cipher |
cipher
cypher
cryptograph secret code | a secret method of writing |
commission
military commission | an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces |
| secret arcanum | information known only to a special group, the secret of Cajun cooking |
| secret | something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on), the combination to the safe was a secret, he tried to keep his drinking a secret |
| open secret | something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known, their love affair was an open secret |
| trade secret | a secret (method or device or formula) that gives a manufacturer an advantage over the competition |
connivance secret approval
tacit consent | (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing |
| commission charge direction | a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something, the judge's charge to the jury |
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
ASALA
Orly Group
rd October Organization | a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in , wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia, ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in killed and wounded people |
National Liberation Army
ELN
Nestor Paz Zamora Commission
CNPZ | a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups, a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the s |
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC | a former executive agency (from to ) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC | an independent federal agency created in to license and regulate nuclear power plants |
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC | a former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states, was terminated in , the ICC was established in as the first federal agency |
| Postal Rate Commission | an independent federal agency that recommends changes in postal rates |
Federal Communications Commission
FCC | an independent government agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite |
| secret police | a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition) |
| commission plan | a municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in the members of a commission |
| secret society | a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers |
Economic and Social Council commission
ECOSOC commission | a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
| Commission on Human Rights | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with human rights |
| Commission on Narcotic Drugs | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with drug traffic |
| Commission on the Status of Women | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with the status of women in different societies |
| Economic Commission for Africa | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of African nations |
| Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of countries in Asia and the Far East |
| Economic Commission for Europe | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development in Europe |
| Economic Commission for Latin America | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development in Latin America |
| Population Commission | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with population control |
| Social Development Commission | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with social development |
| Statistical Commission | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with statistical data from member nations |
blue ribbon commission
blue ribbon committee | an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue |
committee
commission | a special group delegated to consider some matter, a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours - Milton Berle |
| election commission | a commission delegated to supervise an election |
| fairness commission | a commission delegated to ensure opportunities for the expression of opposing views |
| planning commission | a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments |
Secret Intelligence Service
MI Military Intelligence Section | the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas |
United States Secret Service
US Secret Service
USSS
Secret Service
SS | the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors, detects and apprehends counterfeiters, suppresses forgery of government securities and documents |
Federal Trade Commission
FTC | an independent agency of the United States federal government that maintains fair and free competition, enforces federal antitrust laws, educates the public about identity theft |
deputation
commission delegation
delegacy
mission | a group of representatives or delegates |
| High Commission | an embassy of one British Commonwealth country to another |
| zoning commission | a commission delegated to supervise the zoning of areas for residential or commercial use |
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC | an independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors |
secret agent
intelligence officer
intelligence agent
operative | a person secretly employed in espionage for a government |