Russia / Soviet Intelligence Agencies

Chekisti (cheka men) refers to the NKVD,
derived from the name of the original Soviet secret police, the Cheka.
Shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1999,
Putin told Russian television
"there is no such thing as an ex-Chekist".

Soviet/Russian Intelligence Agencies
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Spetsnaz Aktivniye Meropriyatiya Dezinformatsiya Gosudarstvennoy Sekretnyie Maskirovka Mokroye Delo Nauchno Texnicheskaya Razvedka Operastiya Pod Lozhnym Flagom Provokatsiya Intelligence Related Facilities Intelligence Programs and Activities
Security Council Defense Council CHEKA GPU / OGPU NKVD Committee for State Security [KGB] Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti SECURITY MINISTRY OF RUSSIA (MBR) Ministerstvo Bezopasnosti Ruskii Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN] Federalniya Sluzhba Kontroliy Narkotikov
Ministry for State Security - MGB Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki Central Intelligence Service [CSR] Centralnaya Sluzhbza Razvedky Federal Security Service (FSB) Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) Federal'naya Sluzhba Kontr-razvedky Special Communications and Information Service Federal Agency for Government Communications & Information(FAPSI) Federal'naya Agenstvo Pravitel'stvennoy Svayazi i Informatsii National Investigation Committee State Technical Commission [GosTekhKomissiya] Gosudarstvennii Tekhnologiam Komissiya Federal Protective Service (FSO) Federal'naya Sluzhba Okhrani Main Administration for the Protection of the Russian Federation (GUO) Glavnoye Upravlenie Okhrani Rossiiskoy Federatsii Presidential Security Service [PSB] Prezidentskaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Federal Border Service [FPS] Federal'naya Pogranichnaya Sluzhba Federal Service of Troops Russian Federation National Guard (RF FSVNG)
Cossacks
Private Security Company [ChOP] Chastnoy Okhrannoy Predpriyatiye
MINISTRY OF DEFENSE (MOD) Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie (GRU) Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research Glavnoye Upravlenie Glubokovodsk Issledovanii (GUGI) Eighth Directorate of the General Staff State Secret Protection Service of the Armed Forces
MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS (MVD) Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del General Directorate for Drug Control State Secret Protection Service of the Armed Forces Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) Interlinked System for Recognizing Enemies [SOUD] Sisteme Objedinennovo Utschotya Dannych o Protivniki
Sources and Resources Classification Levels Used by the Russian Federation A Glossary of Soviet-Era Terminology Shield and Sword Valentin Mzareulov state secret services Special services of Russia @ agentura.ru SUCCEEDING THE KGB: RUSSIAN INTERNAL SECURITY IN TRANSITION Allan Kagedan COMMENTARY No. 24 Canadian Security Intelligence Service June 1992 Russian Intelligence and Security Services: An Indicator of Democratic Reform Thomas Muldoon, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL - JUNE 1999 Surveillance Counter-Intelligence News also in Russian with archive Russia's Security Services: A Checklist for Reform By J. MICHAEL WALLER American Foreign Policy CouncilInstitute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy Perspective Volume VIII, Number 1 (September-October 1997) VENONA Soviet Espionage and the American Response - 1939-1957 CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence - 1996 Pacification of Ukraine: Soviet Counterinsurgency, 1944-1956 Peter J. Potichnyj McMaster University October 2-3, 1987

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Intelligence

Soviet/Russian Intelligence Agencies

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

Intelligence Related Facilities

Intelligence Programs and Activities

Ministry for State Security - MGB Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti

Cossacks

Private Security Company [ChOP] Chastnoy Okhrannoy Predpriyatiye

MINISTRY OF DEFENSE (MOD)

Sources and Resources

Soviet/Russian
Intelligence Agencies

Ministry for State Security - MGB
Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti

Private Security Company [ChOP]
Chastnoy Okhrannoy Predpriyatiye