Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
1979 December: Soviet troops enter Afghanistan; KGB Alpha Group storms presidential palace and kills Afghan president Amin and f ...
(Yeltsin) and the right (party bureaucracy). December: Gorbachev trav- els to Washington to sign series of arms control agreemen ...
1993 October: Constitutional crisis between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Communist Party members of the Duma create first ...
2001 Vladimir Putin begins restructuring Russian intelligence com- munity; he appoints many colleagues to senior positions in in ...
Introduction xxiii The internal security apparatus and foreign intelligence services of Russia—whether imperial, Soviet, or demo ...
THE INSTITUTIONS Since Ivan IV created the Oprichninain the 1560s to sniff out treason, Russian security institutions have been ...
While the Okhranais seen today as inefficient and corrupt, it was feared by generations of opponents of the regime from the cent ...
the Baltic. Nevertheless, the KGB was unable to prevent the dra- matic failure of the regime in 1991. Scope of Activity: Betwee ...
had lost touch with its staff as it had lost touch with developments within the country; crucial paramilitary KGB units refused ...
As far back as the reign of Ivan IV, foreign intelligence was directed against Russian opponents of the tsar living abroad. The ...
Union, at a time when the United States and the United Kingdom had not an agent within the Soviet Union. The intelligence servic ...
Nevertheless, many of the operational successes of the Soviet and Russian services were squandered by the country’s political le ...
decades of the 20th century thought of themselves as more than police officers or civil servants. Many saw themselves as forging ...
American charges. An NKVD case officer cabled Moscow from New York about Julius Rosenberg: “The state of LIBERAL’s health is not ...
fight as a soldier in the Great Patriotic War. He was arrested in the late 1940s when his mother again fell into disfavor. SECRE ...
his wife recommended her as a clever girl. Ruth has learned that her hus- band was called up by the Army, but he has not been se ...
view does not constitute approval but, rather, is a legal and ethical ob- ligation of former CIA employees. NOTES Christopher A ...
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The Dictionary 1 A – ABAKUMOV, VIKTOR SEMENOVICH (1908–1954).Born into a working-class family in Moscow, Abakumov joined the s ...
spies and Jewish nationalists, acting under the cover of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.” After his arrest, Abakumov was inte ...
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