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What is KGB regarding Russia?

The KGB was the intelligence and internal security agency of the former Soviet Union. KGB [Russian, from K(omitet) G(osudarstvennoĭ) B(ezopasnosti) : komitet, committee + gosudarstvennoĭ, genitive of gosudarstvennyĭ, of the state + bezopasnosti, genitive of bezopasnost', security.] And, although the KGB is no longer the security service such as the Military's GRU, the president of Russia was a former Lieutenant Colonel in the KGB -so, has it really gone away regarding Russia and Putin's actions? On December 21, 1995, the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin signed the decree that disbanded the KGB, which was then substituted by the FSB, the current domestic state security agency of the Russian Federation. In Belarus, a former Soviet republic, the official Russian name of the State Security Agency remains "KGB". The term is also sometimes used metaphorically in the Western press to refer to the FSB since 1991. Main Intelligence Administration (GRU) Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie (GRU) Check this Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/russiagov/putin.htm KGB And fro an abundant wealth of informatin on the subject check this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the KGB of the Soviet Union. For the intelligence services in Belarus, see State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus. For other uses, see KGB (disambiguation). The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian abbreviation for Committee for State Security (Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности (help·info); Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti), which was the umbrella organization serving as the Soviet Union's premier security agency, secret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991. The KGB's operational domain encompassed functions and powers like those exercised by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the counter-intelligence (internal security) division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency, the Federal Protective Service, and the Secret Service in the United States, or by the twin organizations MI5 and Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom.


What is the KGB?

"Excerpt from Wikipedia:KGB is the Russian abbreviation of Committee for State Security, which was the official name of the umbrella organization serving as the Soviet Union's premier security agency, secret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991."It might benoted that the KGB also was the premier "dirty tricks" agency, the premier recriuter of spies from western countries through threat and blackmail, and the premier murder agency employed against enemies of the Soviet regime ... wherever they may be ... Russia, Eastern or Western Europe, the USA ...


What are the names of the 16 US spy agencies?

short answer: Air Force Intelligence Army Intelligence Central Intelligence Agency Coast Guard Intelligence Defense Intelligence Agency Department of Energy Department of Homeland Security Department of State Department of the Treasury Drug Enforcement Administration Federal Bureau of Investigation Marine Corps Intelligence National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency National Reconnaissance Office National Security Agency Navy Intelligence more detailed answer: visit the website of the 'united states intelligence community' at the following address-- www.intelligence.gov


Who are the civilian intelligence organizations?

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What is included in the foreign policy bureaucracy in the?

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What is CIA KGB?

The CIA is a United States intelligence agency. It stands for Central Intelligence Agency. The KGB is similar except they operated for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. KGB is an acronym that means Комитет государственной безопасности​ or Committee for State Security.


American spy organization?

The United States government has seventeen spy or intelligence agencies. The include the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Geo-Spatial Intelligency Agency (NGA), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), Airforce Intelligency, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (AFISRA), Army Military Intelligence (MI), Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA), Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), United States Department of Energy, Office of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence (OICI), United States Department of Homeland Security, Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), Coast Guard Intelligence (CGI), United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of National Security Intelligence (DEA/ONSI), United States Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), United States Department of Treasury, Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI).


What is KGB regarding?

The KGB was an intelligence organization of the USSR/Russia until 1995. KGB is the Russian acronym for Committee for State Security. It was an intelligence organization and the primary secret police force in the old Soviet Union. The Communist Party used it as an instrument of terror. Anyone could be investigated, arrested, held without trial, tortured, imprisoned and executed.


What is included in the foreign-policy bureaucracy in the executive branch?

The State Department, the Defense Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Council.