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Soviet/Russian Intelligence Agencies

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

Security Council
Defense Council

Committee for State Security [KGB]
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti

Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki
Central Intelligence Service [CSR]
Centralnaya Sluzhba Razvedky

Federal Security Service (FSB)
Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti
Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK)
Federal'naya Sluzhba Kontr-razvedky
Federal Agency for Government Communications & Information (FAPSI)
Federal'naya Agenstvo Pravitel'stvennoy Svayazi i Informatsii

State Technical Commission [GosTekhKomissiya]
Gosudarstvennaya Tekhnicheskaya Komissiya

Federal Protective Service (FSO)
Federal'naya Sluzhba Okhrani
Main Administration for the Protection of the Russian Federation (GUO)
Glavnoye Upravlenie Okhrani Rossiiskoy Federatsii

Presidential Security Service [PSB]
Prezidentskaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti

Federal Border Service [FPS]
Federal'naya Pogranichnaya Sluzhba
SECURITY MINISTRY OF RUSSIA (MBR)
Ministerstvo Bezopasnosti Rosii
MINISTRY OF DEFENSE (MOD)
Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU)
Glavnoye Razvedovatel'noye Upravlenie (GRU)
MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS (MVD)
Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del

Related Resources

• Russian Intelligence: A Case-Based Study of Russian Services and Missions Past and Present by Kevin P. Riehle, National Intelligence University, Spring 2022
• Russian Biological Agent-Related Patents, compiled by Mark Gorwitz, 2016
• Russia Military: Quick Reference Guide, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, January 2020
• Russian Military Intelligence: Background and Issues for Congress, Congressional Research Service, November 15, 2021
• Russian intelligence services and special forces, UK House of Commons Library briefing paper, 30 October 2018
• Russian Military Power 2017, Defense Intelligence Agency, June 2017
• Further Amendment to Amended Agreement Between US and Russia on Disposition of Surplus Plutonium, entered into force July 13, 2011
• Amended Agreement Between US and Russia on Disposition of Surplus Plutonium, entered into force July 13, 2011
• Agreement Between US and Russia on Transfer of Russian-Produced Research Reactor Fuel to Russia, May 2004
• US-Russia Agreement on Defense Communications, signed in 2008
• A Sourcebook on the Russian Federation Main Directorate of Special Programs (GUSP) by Allen Thomson, November 2006
• US-Russia Agreement on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (2008)
• FSB Deputy Director on Reform Tasking, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 15 July 2004

• Directory of Russian Federation Defense Related Agencies and Personnel from the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 2003

• Press Conference with Veterans of the Foreign Intelligence Service, on the publication of the new book "Teheran 43 or Operation Long Jump," November 18, 2003
• Statute on Federal Security Service of Russian Federation and Structure of Federal Security Service Agencies, approved by Presidential Edict No 960 of 11 August 2003, signed by V. Putin, President of Russian Federation
• Agentura.ru, the premier independent web site on Russian security services (English section)
• Agentura.ru, Russian language site
• A Web Site That Came in From the Cold to Unveil Russian Secrets by Sally McGrane, New York Times, December 14, 2000. "Since its start in September, Agentura.ru has been posting newspaper articles about international intelligence organizations, and providing an outline of how the Russian secret services are structured."

• Classification Levels Used by the Russian Federation
• A Glossary of Soviet-Era Terminology
• Glossary of Soviet Military and Related Abbreviations, U.S. Army Technical Manual, February 1957
• SUCCEEDING THE KGB: RUSSIAN INTERNAL SECURITY IN TRANSITION
  Allan Kagedan COMMENTARY No. 24 Canadian Security Intelligence Service June 1992
• Russian Intelligence and Security Services: An Indicator of Democratic Reform
  Thomas Muldoon, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL - JUNE 1999

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