No Russian equivalent of the KGB archive is available.

The term is still found in use in Russia today ( for example, President Vladimir Putin has been referred to in the Russian media as a " chekist " due to his career in the KGB ).

Carr says the new ownership may be used by Russia's powerful secret service, the FSB ( formerly the KGB ) since Russian law, like the American law, requires ICQ to open its logs whenever they want ".

( It is a measure of KGB distrust that the Russian version of this book was not published until 1980.

For thirty years, the KGB and FSB trained Iraqi secret police ; some 70, 000 Russian military advisors, many of them intelligence and security specialists, served in Iraq from 1973-2003.

A defector from the biological weapons department 12 of the KGB " illegals " ( S ) directorate ( presently a part of Russian SVR service ) claimed that a truth drug codenamed SP-117 was highly effective and has been widely used.

Wary of a move toward the reinvigoration of Russian power, Brzezinski negatively viewed the succession of former KGB agent Vladimir Putin after Boris Yeltsin.

On 21 January 2009, Russian businessman and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev and son Evgeny Lebedev, now the newspaper's chairman, agreed to purchase 75. 1 % of the newspaper for £ 1.

He briefly had an affair with a Russian midget dancer named Zinka, who turned out to be a KGB agent sent to steal ice-nine for the Soviet Union.

*,, Secret documents regarding 1974 cooperation between the KGB and the PFLP against Israel and arming PFLP – ( in Russian ) from the Soviet Archives collected by Vladimir Bukovsky

It is known that Segal was in close contact with Russian KGB officers and Mitrochin mentioned him as a central asset of the operation.

In 1953, a Soviet Russian KGB agent named Albert Malik set up his spy / criminal organization in Algeria and assumed the identity of the Red Skull, pretending that he was the original, when he was actually serving Soviet interests.

To this end, it uses politico-military tools such as " maskirovka " ( Russian: " маскировка " camouflage ), or strategic politico-military deception, to pre-emptively and deniably prepare the battlespace for the initiation of hostilities, as well as the liberal use of special operations forces ( Spetznaz ), the inclusion of intelligence gathering personnel as combatants ( for example, the former KGB had military ranks, where Western intelligence agencies did not ), and use of politics as warfare by other means, such as through disinformation, psychological operations, and propaganda.

The last one on 26 November 1994 ended with capture of 21 Russian Army tank crew members, secretly hired as mercenaries by the FSK ( former KGB, soon renamed FSB ); their capture was sometimes cited as one of the reasons of Boris Yeltsin's decision to launch the open intervention.

Among its famous inmates were the influential revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, a Russian revolutionary Nikolai Bauman, the founder of the KGB Felix Dzerzhinsky ( who was one of the few individuals to stage a successful escape from the prison ), and the writers Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Yevgenia Ginzburg.

They searched for possible candidates to buy off and found one – a Russian businessman and former KGB agent whose identity remains classified to this day.

The Russian responded that he did not know the name, but that he could get the actual KGB / SVR file, which he had secretly taken out of headquarters.

Hanssen never told the KGB or GRU his identity and refused to meet them personally, with the exception of the abortive 1993 contact in the Russian embassy garage.

Some alleged he had connections to the KGB, the allegations continued during 2003-2008, when Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who had been granted access to Soviet archives, declared that Iliescu and some of the NSF members were KGB agents, that Iliescu had been in close connection with Mikhail Gorbachev ever since they had allegedly met during Iliescu's stay in Moscow, and that the Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a plot organized by the KGB to regain control of the country's policies ( gradually lost under Ceaușescu's rule ).

Previously romantically linked to both Zach's nephew and former stepson, Bliss falls in love with a Russian dancer watched by the KGB, the son Monica had given up eight years before reenters her life, and Constance and Hutch are killed after a plane crash in India.

While working in the FBI New York office, Pitts had access to " a wide range of sensitive and highly classified operations " that included " recruitment operations involving Russian intelligence officers, double agent operations, operations targeting Russian intelligence officers, true identities of human assets, operations against Russian illegals, defector sources, surveillance schedules of known meet sites, internal policies, documents, and procedures concerning surveillance of Russian intelligence officers, and the identification, targeting, and reporting on known and suspected KGB intelligence officers in the New York area.

Failure to address the economic and social disparities and increasing political awareness of the less-affluent population, as well as indirect intervention and economic funding to the main political groups by both the KGB and the CIA, as part of the Cold War, led to a political polarization under Socialist President Salvador Allende which in turn resulted in the 11 September 1973 coup and the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year regime was responsible for numerous human rights violations and deep market-oriented economic reforms.

The Cuban packages scandal revealed arms smuggling from the Communist Cuba to Chile ; Allende – surrounded by KGB advisors – had turned Chile into a center for Soviet operations in Latin America.

Pohl said as the conflicts between New Fandom and the Futurians were " Addicted to Feuds " and that " No CIA nor KGB ever wrestled so valiantly for the soul of an emerging nation as New Fandom and the Futurians did for science fiction ".

Powers was interrogated extensively by the KGB for months before he made a forced confession and a public apology for his part in espionage.

The exchange was for Soviet KGB Colonel Vilyam Fisher ( aka Rudolf Abel ), who had been caught by the FBI and jailed for espionage.

Successor to AGSA ( Department for Safeguarding the Interests of Afghanistan ) and KAM, KHAD was nominally part of the Afghan state, but it was firmly under the control of the Soviet KGB until 1989.

After Brezhnev's death in November 1982, there was speculation the position of General Secretary would fall to Chernenko, however he was unable to rally enough popular support for his candidacy within the Party, and the posting fell to former KGB chief Yuri Andropov.

Many KGB and GRU operatives favored the Stechkin for its power and magazine capacity.

During 1990-91, the RSFSR enhanced its sovereignty by establishing republic branches of organizations such as the Communist Party, the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, radio and television broadcasting facilities, and the Committee for State Security ( Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti — KGB ).

This was one part of Aleksandr Shelepin's ' grand strategy ' of using national liberation movements as a spearhead of the Soviet Union's foreign policy in the Third World, and in 1960 the KGB organized funding and training for twelve individuals that Fonseca handpicked.

Disappointed with the performance of Shelepin's new Latin American " revolutionary vanguard ", the KGB reconstituted its core of the Sandinista leadership into the ISKRA group and used them for other activities in Latin America.

According to Andrew, Mitrokhin says during the following three years the KGB handpicked several dozen Sandinistas for intelligence and sabotage operations in the United States.

Shelepin proposed to make appropriations from KGB funds in addition to the previous assistance $ 10, 000 for purchase of arms.

The KGB and the Soviet Ministry of Defense were instructed to work out more ; specific measures and present them for consideration by the Central Committee.

The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World.

Meanwhile, in New Mexico, three KGB officers kidnap Gregory on Gerasimov's orders and hold him in a shabby desert safe house, planning to send him to Moscow for debriefing.

* Nikolay Borissovich Gerasimov, Chairman of the KGB ( Committee for State Security )

* Colonel Sergey Nikolayevich Golovko, GRU ( Soviet Military Intelligence )/ KGB ( Committee for State Security )

He was a teacher for the officers of the NKVD ( KGB ).

Most of documents of the archive are letters from the head of the KGB to the Central Committee about activities of Soviet dissidents and recommendations about the interpretation in newspapers.

* November 12 – In the Soviet Union, former KGB head Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev.

In 1967, he was relieved of his work in the Central Committee apparatus and appointed head of the KGB on recommendation of Mikhail Suslov.

After the elections, the KGB director Yuri Andropov obtained permission for additional money and other resources from the Central Committee of the CPSU to ensure an Allende victory in Congress.

The NKVD contained the regular, public police force of the USSR ( including traffic police, firefighting, border guards and archives ) but is better known for the activities of the Gulag and the Main Directorate for State Security ( GUGB ), which eventually became the Committee for State Security ( KGB ).

* The USSR Committee for State Security ( KGB ), responsible for the political police, CI, intelligence, personal protection ( of the leadership ), and confidential communications.

The Central Committee of the CPSU decided that 150 KGB officials were to reinforce the ministry but the implementation of the decision was difficult as the “ volunteered ” officers resisted the transfer.

The Soviets established a special commission on Afghanistan, comprising KGB chairman Yuri Andropov, Boris Ponomarev from the Central Committee and Dmitriy Ustinov, the Minister of Defence.

The Committee concluded that there was no evidence to prove Soviet Union / KGB involvement.

He left the Cabinet after the 1992 general election, and returned to the backbenches where he served as Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Select Committee from 1994 – 2001, during which time KGB agent Vasili Mitrokhin defected to reveal 87-year-old Melita Norwood as a Soviet spy .< ref >

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation ( FSB ) (; Federal ' naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii ) is the main domestic security agency of the Russian Federation and the main successor agency of the Soviet Committee of State Security ( KGB ).

The Federal Security Service is one of the successor organisations of the Soviet Committee of State Security ( KGB ).

Its final transformation was into the more widely known Committee for State Security ( KGB ).

When Almásy was pursued by a " hit squad " from the Soviet " Committee for State Security " ( Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty or KGB ), the British put him on an aeroplane to Cairo, where he was met by Mouktar and a British MI6 agent.

During this time he was also First Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, a KGB foreign propaganda front organization.

On March 29, 1983, the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has approved the resolution 101 / 62ГС to " Support the proposition of the Department of Propaganda of the Central Committee and the KGB USSR about the creation of the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public ..."

In 1983, he was designated chairman of Anti-Zionist committee of the Soviet public by the Ideological Department of the CPSU Central Committee and the KGB.

The Covenant was a " loose affiliation of Russian nationalists " composed of retired KGB and former Central Committee members, all dedicated to the new world envisioned by Milo Rambaldi.