Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

RSDLP (B) Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolshevik)

SB Polish Security Service

SIS Secret Intelligence Service, British Foreign

Intelligence Service

SLON Northern Camps of Special Designation (GPU forced

labor camps located on the White Sea, circa 1920)

Smersh Smert Shpiyonam (Death to Spies), military

counterintelligence component of the

People Commissariat of Defense

Spetznaz Soviet military and KGB special forces

Stasi Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit (East German

Ministry for State Security). SeeMfS

STB Statni Tajna Bezpecnost (Czechoslovak Secret

Intelligence Service)

SVR Sluzhba Vneshnei Razvedki (Service of

Foreign Intelligence)

VM or VMN Vyshaya Mera (Supreme Measure) or Vyshaya Mera

Nakazaniya (Supreme Measure of Punishment),

capital punishment

ZK Zakluchoniy chelovek (Prisoner)

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