Enormoz Literally, “Enormous.” NKVD code name for
the Anglo-American nuclear weapons
program
FAPSI Ferderalnoe Agentstvo Pravitelstevennoi svyazi i
informatatsii (Federal Agency for Government
Communications and Information)
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FHO Fremde Herre Ost (Foreign Armies East, unit of
German Army High Command responsible for
intelligence on the Soviet Army during World
War II)
FSB Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti
(Federal Security Service)
GCHQ General Communications Headquarters
(British signals intelligence service)
GKO Gosudartsvenniy Komitet Oborony
(State Defense Committee)
Glavlit Glavnoe Upravlenieniye po delam literatury i
izdatv (Main Directorate for the Issues of
Literature and the Press)
Gostekhkommisia State Technical Commission. SeeGTK.
GPU Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoe Upravleniye
(State Political Directorate)
GRU Glavnoe Razvedvitelnoe Upravleniye
(Chief Intelligence Directorate)
GTK Gosudarstvennaya Tekhnicheskaya Komisiya
(State Technical Commission)
Gulag Glavnoye Upravleniye ispravitelno-trudovykh
Lagerei (Chief Directorate of Corrective
Labor Camps)
GUPVI Glavnoye Upravleniye po delam
Voennoplennikh i Internirovannikh
(Chief Directorate for Prisoners of War
and Internees)
HVA Hauptverwaltung Aufklarung (Chief Directorate
of Intelligence of East German MfS)
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