Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
the early 1950s, a constant theme of Soviet active measures was “peace campaigns,” designed to portray the United States as a ha ...
Soviet active measures were carefully coordinated with the Inter- national Department of the Communist PartyCentral Committee, a ...
ducted in turn by members of the Communist Party Politburo. The AOD vetted important personnel and logistics issues, approving a ...
cover, Agayants served as rezident(chief of intelligence) in Paris fol- lowing World War II. Agayants established networks of ag ...
Stalin’s gratitude; he was arrested in July 1937 as Nikolai Yezhov cleansed the security service of enemies. On 1 August 1938, A ...
whose code name was “Nelly,” served as a courier between the ille- gal apparatus and NKVD officers under “legal” cover as diplom ...
AMES, ALDRICH (1941– ). The KGB’s recruitment of Aldrich Ames to penetrate the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Directorate o ...
Stalin read analysis of American weapons systems with far greater interest. As a result of analytical reporting in 1942 and 1943 ...
ently convinced Andropov that Moscow had to be especially vigi- lant about intellectual dissent. The Soviet leadership gave Andr ...
many intelligence officers thought was disastrous. According to a KGB general, at one briefing on foreign intelligence, Andropov ...
minded bureaucrat. Vladimir Putin, a veteran of Andropov’s KGB, put flowers on Andropov’s bust at the Lubyankasecurity service h ...
espionage and treason in Moscow. The most famous of the defen- dants was Solomon Lozovsky (1878–1952), one of the few Jewish mem ...
churches were closed and more than 40,000 clergy were arrested. Many of these clergy and their families were shot or imprisoned ...
While the KGB sought to limit organized religion within the USSR, it simultaneously tried to exploit religion to support Soviet ...
On several occasions, the KGB leadership grossly exaggerated the threat of war. In 1960 KGB Chair Aleksandr Shelepininformed Nik ...
pairs of handcuffs were ordered, and arrest warrants were drafted for thousands of reformers and “troublemakers” across the coun ...
tionaries, and he was elected a member of the SR central committee. During the same period, he was the Okhrana’s highest paid in ...
could solve the Soviet Union’s international problems with enough back channels to the major powers. While back channels were un ...
forces were dead, wounded, or captured, and 25 German divisions had been destroyed. BAKATIN, VADIM VIKTOROVICH (1937– ).Bakatin, ...
One of Baker’s cables to Moscow noted that all clandestine activities “were discussed and considered by father and son.” In the ...
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