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8 results for NKVD from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat Aug 21, 1982	21D	O.G.P.U. successor	Peter Swift	Maleska
Sun Feb 28, 1982	112D	Secret-police letters	Bert Rosenfield	Maleska
Fri May 10, 1974	54D	Former Soviet police	Joseph McLaughlin	Weng
Sat Nov 6, 1971	25D	Successor to OGPU	Unknown	Weng
Wed Nov 15, 1967	57D	It's now MVD.	Unknown	Farrar
Tue Jan 1, 1963	9A	Relative of Gay-Pay-Oo.	Brice Metcalfe	Farrar
Thu Oct 29, 1959	59D	The MVD from 1934 to 1946.	Unknown	Farrar
Thu Oct 5, 1950	24A	OGPU's successor.	Willard N. Jordan	Farrar

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