1A government department concerned with espionage.I wonder if the Bulgarian secret services are spying on foreigners....
Several Allied secret services such as SOE were eager to assist in these tasks, sometimes with political objects in mind.
It is allowed to carry out surveillance like a secret service, and has the judicial powers of a regular police agency.
2(Secret Service)(In the US) a branch of the Department of Homeland Security responsible for providing protection to the president and investigating certain types of financial crime.