Instantsiya “The Authorities.” The leadership of the Communist
Party and the Soviet Union; the address for important
Soviet intelligence cables
KGB Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti (Committee of
State Security)
KHAD Department of State Information Services
(Afghan secret police)
Khozyain “The Boss,” Joseph Stalin
KI Komitet Informatsii (Committee of Information)
Komsomol Young Communist League
KRU Kontrrazvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie
(Counterintelligence Directorate)
MfS Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit (East German Ministry
for State Security)
MGB Ministerstsvo Gosudarstevennoi Bezopasnosti
(Ministry of State Security)
MI5 British Security Service. SeeBSS
MI6 British Intelligence Service. SeeSIS
MNVK/2 Hungarian Military Intelligence Service
MVD Ministerstsvo Vnutrennikh Del (Ministry of
Internal Affairs)
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NEP New Economic Policy
NKGB Narodniy Kommissariat Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti
(People’s Commissariat of State Security)
NKVD Narodniy Kommissariat Vnutrennikh Del
(People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs)
NSA National Security Agency (American signals
intelligence service)
OGPU Obyedinennoe Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe
Upravleniye (Unified State Political Directorate)
OMSBON Otdelniy Motorstrelskovoi Brigadi Osobovo
Naznacheniya (Independent Motorized Rifle Brigade
for Special Operations)
OO Osobiy Otdel (Special Section)
OSS Office of Strategic Services
PGU Pervoye Glavnoye Upravleniye (First Chief Directorate,
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