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  The Raw Story | Was former KGB agent murdered over false-flag terrorism within Russia?
But it was not until the failed Rayzan bombing attempt that the suspected role of the Russian government in the bombings began to be alleged publicly.
The FSB is the Russian equivalent of the FBI, and it and the SVR are the two arms of what used to be known as the KGB.
Scaramella is also said to have connections to the deputy chief of the FSB, Viktor Komogorov, who is alleged by Chechen sources to have been conducting an internal FSB investigation of Litvinenko..
www.rawstory.com /news/2006/Was_former_KGB_agent_murdered_over_1126.html   (1294 words)

  
  Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
The FSB reforms were rounded out by Edict 633, signed by Boris Yeltsin on 23 June 1995.
The FSB played a major and ineffectual role in Chechnya but it also had to fight organised crime, terrorism, drug smuggling and corruption across the whole Federation as well.
In September 1998 the FSB staff had received only half of their salaries and distribution of meal allowances had stopped at the beginning of the year.
www.encyclopedian.com /fe/Federalnaya-Sluzhba-Bezopasnosti.html   (448 words)

  
 Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
FSB Director Nikolay Kovalev said in 1996: "There has never been such a number of spies arrested by us since the time when German agents were sent in during the years of World War II." FSB reported that around 400 foreign intelligence agents were uncovered in 1995 and 1996.
FSB was also involved in preparation of requests to extradite high-profile suspects who escaped abroad, such as Aleksander Litvinenko, Oleg Kalugin, Akhmed Zakayev, Leonid Nevzlin, and Boris Berezovsky.
Three FSB agents were caugth while planting a large bomb at the basement of an apartment complex in the town of Ryazan in September 22.
www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /f/e/d/Federalnaya_Sluzhba_Bezopasnosti_9eca.html   (2530 words)

  
 FSB: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
It has been...be using a 100Mhz FSB; this means there is a clock multiplier setting of 5.5, thus the cpu is set...
Changing the FSB all the way to 133MHz will swap over to a 1/4th ratio for the PCI bus, and...overclocked if the FSB is moved to 138MHz.
When choosing a FSB speed for the CPU you chose, be...
www.encyclopedian.com /fs/FSB.html   (229 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Federal Security Service (Russia)
The Federal Security Service (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiiskoy Federacij or FSB (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции or ФСБ)) is a state security organisation in Russia, the successor to the KGB by way of the FSK (Federalnaya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki (Федера́льная Слу́жба Контрразве́дки), Federal Counterintelligence Service).
Yeltsin appointed Colonel-General Mikhail Ivanovich Barsukov as the new director of the FSB.
The FSB played a major and ineffectual role in Chechnya but it also had to fight organized crime, terrorism, drug smuggling and corruption across the whole Federation as well.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Federalnaya_Sluzhba_Bezopasnosti   (577 words)

  
 Wikipedia: KGB
The KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, or The Committee for State Security) was the name of the main Soviet external security and intelligence agency, as well as the main secret police agency from March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991.
Kryuchkov was arrested, and General Vadim Bakatin was appointed Chairman on August 23, 1991 with a mandate to dismantle the KGB.
On November 6, 1991 the Russian KGB officially ceased to exist, though its successor organization, the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, or FSB, is functionally extremely similar to the KGB.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/k/kg/kgb.html   (845 words)

  
 The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation
Vyacheslav Kuksa, an officer of the FSB branch in Ingushetia, son of a deputy prime minister of Ingushetia, was kidnapped on 18 March 1997.
The FSB was therefore run by: the Director, a First Deputy Director, Five Deputy Directors - heads of FSB departments, one Deputy Director - Head of the Moscow City and region directorate, and 11 members of a collegium which had to be approved by the president.
The FSB Collegium was increased from 11 to 17 in August 1998.
www.agentura.ru /english/dosie/brit/fsb   (19744 words)

  
 Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia
FSB is responsible for internal security of the Russian state, counterespionage, and the fight against organized crime, terrorism, and drug smuggling.
FSB Director Nikolay Kovalev said in 1996: "There has never been such a number of spies arrested by us since the time when German agents were sent in during the years of World War II." FSB reported that around 400 foreign intelligence agents were uncovered in 1995 and 1996.
Three FSB agents were caugth while planting a large bomb at the basement of an apartment complex in the town of Ryazan in September 22.
www.medbib.com /Federalnaya_Sluzhba_Bezopasnosti   (2519 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Profile: Russia's secret police
FSB are the initial letters of the Russian words Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti - Federal Security Service - the country's secret police.
Known as the KGB during the days of the Soviet Union, the secret service was dismantled in 1991 and its successor FSK (Federalnaya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki or Federal Counterintelligence Service) was reorganised into the FSB in 1995.
The cold-war cliche of a man in a trilby hat and a poorly tailored coat lurking in a doorway is a thing of the past.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/6169414.stm   (628 words)

  
 KGB - The Encyclopedia
The term KGB is also used in a more general sense to refer to the successive Soviet State Security organizations before 1954 (from the Cheka in 1917).
The term KGB is also sometimes used in the British press to refer to the Russian FSB since 1991.
Its successor agency, the FSB, now performs most of the functions of the former KGB, though the largest, most important directorate of the KGB, the FCD, was broken off to become the SVR (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki).
www.the-encyclopedia.com /description/KGB   (5403 words)

  
 Renaissance Capital Research Portal
Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, the Federal Security Service (FSB) - The state security organization in Russia, charged with intelligence, counterintelligence, and combating crime domesticaly.
The head of the FSB is appointed by the President.
Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) - An off shoot of the old KGB which took over the responsibilities of running foreign agents and obtaining intelligence from abroad.
research.rencap.com /eng/government/security_orgs.asp   (254 words)

  
 Terrorism prevention in Russia: one year after Beslan
As example, admiral Jury Maltsev, up to that FSB supervised Operative management on coordination of carrying out of counterterrorist operations, has been translated in the Ministry of Internal Affairs on a post of the deputy minister of internal affairs and this very day is appointed by head ROSH.
During hostage crisis in Budyonnovsk (June, 1995) the operations staff was headed originally by Minister of Internal Affairs Victor Erin, director of FSB Sergey Stepashin acted as the assistant, and a little bit later the staff was headed by the deputy minister of internal affairs general-colonel Michael Egorov.
FSB Operatively-coordination division in the North Caucasus (OKU).
studies.agentura.ru /english/listing/terrorismprevention   (6682 words)

  
 Hemant Lakhani   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
He was first noticed by the FSB in March 2003 and his past is presently being investigated by India's Central Bureau of Investigation.
Due to a tip-off from MI6, the FSB agent posed as a representative of the company to sell him a disabled Igla missile.
There is some evidence that MI6 grew interested in him after he made contact with Ukrspetsexport an arms company suspected of supplying illegal arms to Iraq.
www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /h/e/m/Hemant_Lakhani_3b84.html   (313 words)

  
 False-Flag Terrorism within Russia?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
In mid-1999, a group of agents of the Russian Federal Security Service, or Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (FSB), were found placing explosives at an apartment complex in the city of Rayzan.
The FSB is the Russian equivalent of the FBI, and it and the SVR are the two arms of what used to be known as the KGB.
A mystery story fuelled by information supplied the Rimini police department by a consultant of the Mitrokhin committee, Mario Scaramella, who, acting on behalf of the agency presided over by Paolo Guzzanti, was trying to track illegal funds from the former USSR that had transited through [the Republic of] San Marino.
www.ocnus.net /artman/publish/article_26931.shtml   (1265 words)

  
 FSB - MN-FILES - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
FSB (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, the Federal Security Service) is the state security organization in Russia, charged with intelligence, counterintelligence, and combating crime (the latter mainly being organized crime, terrorist activities, illegal drug and arms trafficking, contraband, and corruption).
One of the most powerful organizations in the Soviet system, the KGB was charged with fighting the enemies of the regime, as well as with intelligence and counterintelligence.
Andrei Lugovoi, the former Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) operative and the businessman now reported by the Western media to be linked to the poisoning and death in the UK of his former colleague Alexander Litvinenko, refuted those allegations in an exclusive interview to Russia Today.
www.mosnews.com /mn-files/fsb.shtml   (985 words)

  
 Journalist's Murder Seen as Indictment of Putin - World Opinion Roundup
Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti declared that the incident was a training exercise forty-eight hours later.
I told you, these FSB men were spotted planting the bomb, and their calls were traced.
Six percent of the respondents said they were sure that it was the FSB security service that staged the bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk, killing some 300 people in September 1999.
blog.washingtonpost.com /worldopinionroundup/2006/10/journalists_murder_seen_as_ind_1.html   (4504 words)

  
 AAAS - AAAS Human Rights Action Network
He has been arrested in connection with his work for the Norwegian Ecological Foundation Bellona, which is currently under investigation by the FSB (formerly KGB) on charges of divulging state secrets.
The foundation had been working freely in Russia until October 1995 when FSB agents carried out a raid at its Murmansk office confiscating papers and computers and taking several employees and contacts in for interrogation.
FSB representatives later announced on the evening news that Bellona was helping western intelligence services and that western environmentalists in general were using environmentalism as a cover for espionage.
shr.aaas.org /aaashran/alert.php?a_id=5   (851 words)

  
 The Security Organs of the Russian Federation (The text only)
The FSB was not required to obtain a warrant but had to inform the prosecutor within 24 hours.
This law was completed on June 23, a few days after Budennovsk, by a Presidential Edict that ?made the tasks of the FSB more specific than any previous laws, giving the FSB substantial rights to conduct cryptographic work, and described the powers of the FSB director.
 As Director of the FSB, he remained unusually secretive, never giving a single press conference; numerous observers felt that he was hiding his incompetence, and that if the FSB continued to develop under his leadership, it was more in spite of him than thanks to his initiatives.
www.psan.org /document551.html?format=print   (12157 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
On 4 February the commercial television channel NTV and the state-owned RTR broadcast what they said was footage of Andrei Babitsky being handed over to Chechen commanders in exchange for two Russian soldiers, not three.
The short film, shot by the FSB, reportedly showed an unshaven Andrei Babitsky being escorted along a road by Russian soldiers and then given to unarmed men in camouflage wearing masks.
FSB spokesman Alexander Zdanovich told NTV that his organization had not been directly involved in the exchange, but that one of its officers happened to be on the scene with a camera.
www.rferl.org /specials/russia/babitsky/articles/amnesty.asp   (1004 words)

  
 NSNL 59 - Various modes
President Putin has reinforced the powers of the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti - FSB (Federal Security Service), the successor to the former KGB, by abolishing two other powerful agencies.
Ex-director of FAPSI Viktor Matyukhin the first deputy defence minister at the head of a newly established state committee under the Defence Ministry, which will be in charge of state defence.
So, now FAPSI is gone and FSB and MOD will take over, I suggest that we will log them as "Department of State Communications".
www.cvni.net /radio/nsnl/nsnl059/nsnl59vm.html   (720 words)

  
 Fact Page
            The KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, or The Committee for State Security) is the Russian Intelligence Agency.
  The KGB was then succeeded by the FSB, Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti.
  Many of the agents in the FSB are committed to restoring the Russian state to the glory that it once had.
www2.hawaii.edu /~joshuak/factpage.htm   (469 words)

  
 Was a former KGB agent murdered over false-flag terrorism within Russia?
Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki (SVR), well-placed sources tell RAW STORY.
(FSB), were found placing explosives at an apartment complex in the city of Rayzan.
FSB is the Russian equivalent of the FBI, and it and the SVR are the two arms of what
opednews.com /articles/opedne_larisa_a_061130_was_a_former_kgb_age.htm   (838 words)

  
 New partners in war on terror: the FSB (the agency formaly known as KGB)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The cooperation between the FSB (the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, or Federal Security Service) and the British and Americans in the case of the Russian anti-aircraft missile is a product of this new world order - and of fierce self-interest on all sides.
Mr Putin listens to the FSB and, according to Mark Galeotti, listens to little else.
So FSB take up several members and families...chop them up and send to leadership...remaining diplomats showered and fed and left beside embassy in 24 hours.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/963579/posts   (2151 words)

  
 The KGB short for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti Russian Russian #1050 #1086...
Kryuchkov was arrested, and General Vadim Bakatin was appointed Chairman on August 23 August 23, 1991 1991 with a mandate to dismantle the KGB.
On November 6 November 6, 1991 1991 the Russian KGB officially ceased to exist, though its successor organization, the "Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti", or FSB, is functionally extremely similar to the KGB.
FSB FSB (the post-Soviet successor organization to the KGB)
www.biodatabase.de /KGB   (1170 words)

  
 937th OSK (Spetsnaz) - Airsoft Team
The FSB (ФСБ) is a state security organisation in Russia, and is the domestic successor organization to the KGB.
Its name is an acronym from the Russian Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Федера?льная слу?жба безопа?сности Росси?йской Федера?ции) which translates to Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
The SVR is the Russian intelligence agency, which evolved from the KGB after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
www.thespetsnaz.com /glos.html   (1353 words)

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