Soviet/Russian Intelligence Agencies

Sources and Resources

• Classification Levels Used by the Russian Federation
• A Glossary of Soviet-Era Terminology

• Special services of Russia @ agentura.ru

• 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

• Surveillance Counter-Intelligence News also in Russian with archive
• Russia's Security Services: A Checklist for Reform By J. MICHAEL WALLER American Foreign Policy CouncilInstitute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy Perspective Volume VIII, Number 1 (September-October 1997)
• VENONA Soviet Espionage and the American Response - 1939-1957 CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence - 1996
• Pacification of Ukraine: Soviet Counterinsurgency, 1944-1956 Peter J. Potichnyj McMaster University October 2-3, 1987

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 Sluzhbza Razvedky

Federal Security Service (FSB)
Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti
Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK)
Federal'naya Sluzhba Kontr-razvedky

Special Communications and Information Service
Federal Agency for Government Communications & Information(FAPSI)
Federal'naya Agenstvo Pravitel'stvennoy Svayazi i Informatsii

State Technical Commission [GosTekhKomissiya]
Gosudarstvennii Tekhnologiam 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 Ruskii

MINISTRY OF DEFENSE (MOD)
Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU)
Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie (GRU)

MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS (MVD)
Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del

Interlinked System for Recognizing Enemies [SOUD]
Sisteme Objedinennovo Utschotya Dannych o Protivniki

Intelligence Related Facilities

Intelligence Programs and Activities