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Parent topics

• Soviet Union [r]: A Communist state, which took over the Russian Empire, after the Russian Revolution of 1917 that existed from 1922 to 1991; the major part now extant as the Russian Federation ^[e]
• Joseph Stalin [r]: (1878 - 1953) The head of Russia's Communist ("Bolshevik") party and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death. ^[e]
• Organs of State Security [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

Organization & successors

• First Chief Directorate [r]: The main human-source intelligence and covert action organization of the Soviet Committee for State Security; many functions transferred to the SVR of the Russian Federation ^[e]
  • Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia) [r]: Russian Federation foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, largely built from the First Chief Directorate of the KGB ^[e]
• Second Chief Directorate [r]: That part of the KGB responsible for internal counterintelligence from other nations, as opposed to suppression of dissent; very roughly comparable to the British Security Service, Israeli Shin Bet or the national security division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ^[e]
  • FSB [r]: In the Russian Federation, the domestic counterintelligence organizations, many of whose functions were inherited from the Second Chief Directorate of the Soviet Committee for State Security (KGB) ^[e]

Senior officers

Includes the essentially same organization under many names

• Vladimir Putin [r]: President of Russia (1999-2008 and 2012-) and former Prime Minister; leader of United Russia party; KGB officer in the Soviet era. ^[e]
• Yevgeni Primakov [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Yuri Andropov [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vladimir Kryuchkov [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vitaly Cherchenko [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lavrenti Beria [r]: (1899-1953) Soviet security and intelligence official, who rose from the Cheka until becoming Head of State security; managed Soviet nuclear program; attempted to assume power after the death of Joseph Stalin but was executed by a coalition of other seekers of power ^[e]

Defectors and doubles

• Anatoly Golitsyn [r]: Soviet KGB officer who defected to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, triggering an intense internal debate, not completely settled today, if he were genuine or a KGB plant; he and Yuri Nosenko accused one another of being a double agent ^[e]
• Yuri Nosenko [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Petr Popov [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Oleg Penkovsky [r]: (1919-1963) Colonel in Soviet military intelligence (GRU), possibly the most important Cold War defector, who remained in place, providing information, until shot ^[e]

Other related topics

• Central Intelligence Agency [r]: The principal civilian intelligence organization of the United States, specializing in all-source intelligence analysis, clandestine human-source intelligence, and covert action. ^[e]
• Federal Bureau of Investigation [r]: The principal U.S. Federal police agency, part of the U.S. Department of Justice and the United States intelligence community, who has arrest authority, and is the primary authority for a variety of domestic crimes, civilian counterespionage within the United States, and organized crime ^[e]
• Mossad [r]: The civilian foreign intelligence and covert action agency of Israel, roughly comparable to the British Secret Intelligence Service or U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ^[e]
• National Security Agency [r]: An organization within the United States Department of Defense, with the dual roles of the principal signals intelligence agency in the United States intelligence community, but also having the responsibility for information assurance of military, diplomatic, and other critical communications. ^[e]
• Secret Intelligence Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Security Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Shin Beth [r]: Add brief definition or description