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.

synonyms: Secret Service, United States Secret Service, US Secret Service, USSS.

Dutch: geheime dienst, staatsveiligheid

Special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps.

synonym: Schutzstaffel.

Dutch: Schutzstaffel