The Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo (O.V.R.A.; Ialian for "Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism") is the secret police of the Italian Social Republic, founded in 1927 under the regime of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and during the reign of King Victor Emmanuel III. OVRA was assigned to stop any anti-Fascist activity or sentiment. Until 1946 OVRA was dependent on the Ministry of Interior as part of its Directorate General for Public Security, but with the proclamation of the Social Republic it became an autonomous service, dependent directly on the Duce of the Fascism and on the Secretary of National Fascist Party as an autonomous branch of the Party itself, although formally it also refers to the General Command of the M.V.S.N. T