Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
sad relic of the Soviet age, it seems inconceivable that any generation of Russian security specialists will abandon this tool. ...
forces, and by his retirement in 1986 the GRU commanded the largest unconventional warfare force of any army. While most KGB cha ...
tor, and the East Germans and the Soviets agreed to allow him to re- defect to the West. On 12 December 1954, John was spirited ...
counterintelligencein the First Chief Directorate and the youngest general officer in the service. Kalugin was instrumental in r ...
carried out without summoning those detained and without bringing charges.” The verdict in all cases was death by shooting. The ...
informantsemployed by the KGB, but several former officials put the number slightly in excess of 10 million. While Khrushchev’s ...
missions. For example, its First Department ran operations against the American embassy; the Second Department focused on the Br ...
15th Chief Directorate’s role is more shadowed in secrecy, and it was apparently involved in the building and securing of a spec ...
Ukrainians were arrested during the three years Khrushchev served in Kiev. Of the 86 members of the Ukrainian Central Committee ...
greater surveillance of dissidentauthors and artists. He allowed the party and the KGB to persecute dissident intellectuals. Khr ...
chief lieutenants. As party boss of Leningrad, Kirov assured Stalin’s control of the country’s second city by purging the party ...
KOBULOV, AMAYAK ZAKHAROVICH (1906–1955). Like his brother Bogdan Kobulov, Amayak Kobulov was brought into the senior leadership ...
most 500,000 died of hunger, overwork, or executionin 1935–1953. There are very few memoirs of those who mined gold and timbered ...
KOREAN WAR (1950–1953). According to Soviet-era documents, the MGBplayed an important role in the creation of the communist regi ...
was to France as Alexander Orlov’s assistant. Because he had been mentored by men shot in the Yezhovshchina, he was fired in 193 ...
apparently subjected Korotkov to an hour of insults and impreca- tions that brought on a heart attack. Markus Wolf delivered Ko- ...
officer, recruiting and running agents. He was in effect the GRU ille- gal rezidentfor Western Europe. In 1937, following the as ...
From 1945 through 1953, Kruglov served as minister of internal affairs, with the rank of colonel general. Joseph Stalinpromoted ...
munist PartyCentral Committee. During the first years of pere- stroika, he became a trusted advisor of Gorbachev, and in Decembe ...
other weapons programs. Over the next two years, Kvasnikov di- rected a small team of case officers who ran dozens of sources wi ...
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