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  Smersh Design Jewelry
Smersh Design Jewelry is fun and funky, cool and classy — something special that can be worn everyday.
Frances Smersh combines sterling silver with pigmented concrete and fresh water pearls to create pieces as sophisticated as they are unconventional.
Seattle Bride Magazine features Smersh Design cuff links.
www.smershdesign.com   (157 words)

  
 SMERSH - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
SMERSH (short for SMERt' SHpionam (СМЕРть Шпионам), or "Death to Spies") was the name of counterintelligence departments in the Soviet Union formed during the Great Patriotic War, to secure the rear of the active Red Army, on the front to arrest "traitors, deserters, spies, and criminal elements".
SMERSH was also used to punish those within the NKVD itself; it was allowed to investigate whomever it wished in the NKVD structure; department and directorate heads were not immune from it.
SMERSH is mentioned in the early Bond film From Russia with Love, but doesn't play an active role in the plot.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SMERSH   (536 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: SMERSH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Smersh (short for Smert' Shpionam (Смерть Шпионам), or " Death to Spies ") was a counterintelligence department in the Soviet Union formed during the Great Patriotic War, to secure the rear of the active Red Army, on the front to arrest " traitors, deserters, spies, and criminal elements".
SMERSH is actually the Ninth Division of the KGB, which is dedicated to Terror and Diversion, led and staffed by the most fanaticAl Communist killers.
SMERSH (now called Department V of the First Chief Directorate, which is hidden inside the internal security department of the Army, also called CUKR) is responsible for ruthlessly murdering tens of thousands of people in the last eight decades.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/SMERSH   (483 words)

  
 Read about SMERSH at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research SMERSH and learn about SMERSH here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The main opponent of SMERSH in its counterintelligence activity was Abwehr, the German military foreign information and counterintelligence department, active during both
Red Army officers and Smersh agents found Hitler's partially burned corpse near the Führerbunker after his suicide and conducted an investigation to confirm the events of his death and identify the remains which (along with those of
Eva Braun) were reportedly secretly buried at SMERSH headquarters in Magdeburg until April 1970, when they were exhumed and dispersed.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/SMERSH   (484 words)

  
 RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2003/05/29 :: Bonds old foes Smersh given a heroes display
Smersh, Stalin's brutal military counter-espionage service, immortalised in the James Bond novels, is being celebrated in Moscow with an exhibition to mark the 60th anniversary of its founding.
Smersh - a contraction of Smert Shpionam (death to spies) - is depicted in today's Russia as a patriotic band of heroes who fought valiantly against foreign intelligence agencies.
Smersh is best-known in the West as one of the arch-enemies of Ian Fleming's 007 agent, James Bond.
www.rusnet.nl /news/2003/05/29/society01.shtml   (608 words)

  
 Smersh Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Smersh (short for Smert' Shpionam (Death to Spies!)), was formed during the Great Patriotic War, to secure the rear of the active Red Army, on the front to arrest "traitors, deserters, spies, and criminal elements".
Smersh was also used by INO(the NKVD's later KGB FCD,First Chief Directorite, responsible for forign intelligence operations outside of the USSR) to hunt down "enemies of the people" outside of Soviet Territory, this was including but not limited to, supporters of Leon Trotsky, White Guard units, White Bolsheviks, and others, as well as traitors.
Eventually, Smersh's activites, were slowed down, though never really ceased, though its name may have changed as the NKVD changed, its duties always remained the same.
www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/s/sm/smersh.html   (282 words)

  
 SMERSH (James Bond) -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
SMERSH (in capitalised letters) is a Soviet counterintelligence agency that was featured in Ian Fleming's early James Bond novels and films as 007's nemesis.
Though Fleming's SMERSH was supposed to be modelled on the real SMERSH organization, the novels had SMERSH as a massive Soviet counterintelligence operation aimed at sending operatives abroad to subvert the West with an additional goal of killing Western spies, particularly Bond.
Within the world of James Bond, SMERSH is a Soviet counterintelligence agency that is a recurring threat to James Bond and the British Secret Service.
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Kronsteen   (1347 words)

  
 7 May 1971 - Notes on Smersh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Smersh was originally a part of the Stalin-era security apparatus; its name, an abbreviation of its motto "smert' shpionam" ("death to spies"), reflected its role in counter-espionage and detection of anti-Soviet activity.
It was absorbed into the NKVD (the direct predecessor of the KGB) in 1946.
Hubbard evidently believed that Smersh still existed and, moreover, was the lynchpin of the supposed anti-Scientology conspiracy.
www.xenu.net /archive/go/go070571/go070571.htm   (74 words)

  
 Independent Electronic Music #4: Smersh
This odd duo consisted of Michael Mangino and Chris Shepard upon the breakup of the band in 1994, simultaneously with the end of cassettes-era.
For example, the CDR "Gash" (reissue of the classic Smersh cassette from 1983) could remind you the 80's music spirit.
Two tracks each from Smersh, Hip Hug Her, Peace Hotel, and Quatermass in one great big throbbing continuous mix.
www.chat.ru /~svalemor/smersh.htm   (1159 words)

  
 JRL #7196 - McCartney, St. Peterburg Anniversary, Kommunalki, McFaul, Zlobin, Karaganov, Academicians, Chubais, Bivens, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
SMERSH -- short for Smert Shpionam, or "Death to Spies" -- was real enough, right down to the spooky name.
But the rest of his remains, according to the exhibit and Kozhin, were taken by SMERSH and held in East Germany by the agency or its successors until 1970, when the Politburo authorized then-KGB Director Yuri Andropov to carry out their destruction.
SMERSH was also responsible for carrying on a practice begun early in the war, when special "stop-retreat" units were placed immediately behind the Russian front lines with orders to shoot any soldiers who tried to run from battle, Telitsyn said.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7196.htm   (12474 words)

  
 Comments by SMERSH
SMERSH commented on Rockstar Developing Exclusive Franchise For The PS3, at 11:16 AM on Jul 29
SMERSH commented on Rockstar Developing Exclusive Franchise For The PS3, at 6:19 AM on Jul 29
SMERSH commented on Clive Barker Smack Talks Roger Ebert's Smack Talk, at 4:20 AM on Jun 27
www.kotaku.com /commenter/SMERSH   (219 words)

  
 Smersh Design Jewelry | About Us
Smersh Design Jewelry is Frances and John Smersh
John keeps the many wheels rolling in the right direction — the computer computes, the production schedule produces, and all the ducks are in a row.
John also oversees the postcards and the website that keep everyone up to date on activities at the World Headquarters of Smersh Design Jewelry.
www.smershdesign.com /about.htm   (172 words)

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