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	First Chief Directorate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First Chief Directorate (Russian: Первое Главное Управление) [or-PGU] of the Committee for State Security (KGB), was the organization responsible for foreign operations and intelligence collection activities by the training and management of covert agents, intelligence collection management, and the collection of political, scientific and technical intelligence.
		In 1922 after creation of State Political Directorate (GPU) and connecting it with People's Commisariat for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR, foreign intelligence was conduct by GPU Foreign Department, and between December 1923 and July 1934 by Foreign Department of Joint State Political Administration or OGPU.
		In MVD the foreign intelligence was conduct by the Second Chief Directorate, and after the creation of KGB foreign intelligence was conduct by the First Chief Directorate of the Committee for State Security or KGB.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Chief_Directorate (2132 words)

	KGB FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ROLE - Russia / Soviet Intelligence Agencies
		The longtime head of the First Chief Directorate, Vladimir Kriuchkov, who had served under Andropov and his successors, was named head of the KGB in 1988.
		Directorate T was created from the former Department 10 in 1963 to intensify the acquisition of Western strategic, military and industrial technology.
		Planning and Analysis Directorate (Directorate I) Directorate I was established in 1969 to review past operations as a guide to improving future initiatives, although in practice it was said to function more as a dumping-ground for aging or inept officers.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/russia/kgb/su0521.htm (823 words)

	KGB FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ROLE - Russia / Soviet Intelligence Agencies
		The First Chief Directorate of the KGB was responsible for KGB operations abroad.
		The First Chief Directorate was responsible for all international Soviet clandestine activities, apart from military intelligence collection by the GRU and political initiatives of the Communist Party itself.
		Scientific and Technical Directorate (Directorate T) Directorate T was created from the former Department 10 in 1963 to intensify the acquisition of Western strategic, military and industrial technology.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/russia/kgb-su0521.htm (839 words)

	OSNAZ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There is no OSNAZ headquarters as the various groups were formed within the various directorates as needed.
		During the Great Patriotic War the OSNAZ of the NKVD fought on the frontlines against the Nazi Germany as VDV in the form of Airborne regiments/Brigades, with some units achieving "Guards" status at the end of the conflict.
		Vympel or Pennant - formed in August 1981 within the First Chief Directorate as a "sabotage" and covert action unit behing enemy lines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/OSNAZ (408 words)

	Oleg Danilovich Kalugin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		General Kalugin rose quickly in the First Chief Directorate, becoming the youngest general in the history of the KGB, and eventually he became the head of worldwide foreign counterintelligence.
		General Kalugin's internal criticism of lawlessness, arbitrary rule, and cronyism within the KGB caused friction with the KGB leadership, and he was demoted to serve as first deputy chief of internal security in Leningrad from 1980 to 1987.
		He recalls that for the first time in his career, he saw that the KGB's internal functions had little to do with the security of the state, and everything to do with maintaining corrupt Communist Party officials in power.
	www.udel.edu /global/agenda/2003/speakers/kalugin.html (647 words)

	KGB - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On July 5, 1978 the KGB was renamed the "KGB of the USSR" with the KGB Chairman given a seat on the council.
		The KGB was dissolved due to the participation of its chief, Colonel General Vladimir Kryuchkov[?], in the August 1991 coup attempt designed to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev.
		The Second Chief Directorate was responsible for internal political control of citizens and foreigners within the Soviet Union.
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /kg/KGB.html (852 words)

	KGB Functions and Internal Organization - Russia / Soviet Intelligence Agencies
		In 1988 the KGB had five chief directorates and three known (possible another) directorates that were smaller in size and scope than the chief directorates, as well as various other administrative and technical support departments.
		The Second Chief Directorate was responsible for internal political control of Soviet citizens and foreigners residing within the Soviet Union, including both diplomats and tourists.
		In addition to the various directorates and a special network of training and education establishments, the KGB included a variety of other organizations: a personnel department, a secretariat, a technical support staff, a finance department, an archives, an administration department, and a party committee.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/russia/kgb-su0515.htm (925 words)

	The Sword and the Shield
		Alongside the committed FCD officers who maintained their cover and professional discipline throughout their postings, there were others who could not cope when confronted by the contrast between the Soviet propaganda image of capitalist exploitation and the reality of life in the West.
		It came as no surprise to Mitrokhin that the chief ringleader in the failed coup was Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov, head of the FCD from 1974 to 1988 and chairman of the KGB from 1988 until the coup.
		The KGB took a central role in the suppression of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956, the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968, the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and the pressure on the Polish regime to destroy Solidarity in 1981.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/a/andrew-sword.html (9604 words)

	Russia2000 Part II: Vladimir Putin: The Face of Russia To Come [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The project, a priority of First Chief Directorate head Vladimir Kryuchkov, was aimed at uncovering evidence of a suspected NATO plan for a surprise nuclear attack.
		It was one of the most important operations of the KGB and its First Chief Directorate during the 1980s.
		First, the reserve status was created with the express purpose of allowing KGB officers to become involved in the perestroika economy while still retaining KGB benefits.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38221bb669d7.htm (3255 words)

	Russian Oil Pipelines - JRL 4-17-04
		At first glance, Putin is returning the special services simply to their pride of place, recreating, in many respects, the former Golem-KGB, by subordinating the Border Service with its 200,000 well-armed FSB people and by strengthening the Lubyanka enormously.
		The 8th Chief Directorate had been assigned the mission of keeping the machine of secrecy in the Soviet Union running, ranging from working out the norms of secrecy of any paperwork in the country to developing ciphers and means of encoding and decoding information.
		The Ninth Directorate is one of the most important users of the system of closed communication and information, but it does not have authority over the development, implementation and control of its use.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/8171-11.cfm (2829 words)

	RUSSIA'S SVR: THE LEANER, IF NOT MEANER, SUCCESSOR TO THE KGB'S FIRST DIRECTORATE
		The First Directorate had an impressive record of achievement, demonstrating consistently its ability from the end of the Second World War onward to recruit agents in the highest echelons of government in states allied with, and opposed to, the Soviet Union.
		The director of the SVR holds a seat on the Security Council, the Foreign Policy Council, and the Defense Council, and as such is personally involved in any presidential decision on foreign policy.
		The first is that the SVR and its activities are often described with a strong gloss of Russian nationalism, relating to the "multipolar world" foreign policy concept, the maintenance of Russia's international status, and the need to defend Russia against plots and interference from the outside.
	www.jamestown.org /publications_details.php?search=1&volume_id=4&issue_id=199&article_id=2339 (2228 words)

	ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: C 7
		The Foreign Intelligence Service was formed as a separate agency in the November 1991 reorganization of the KGB, and that new agency took over the records of the foreign intelligence operations of the former KGB, namely the First Chief Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, and its predecessors.
		The first revealing press interview with the SVR archival chief regarding the functions and holdings of the archive, justifying the lack of research access and warning the public not to expect many revelations.
		The volume itself features a sensational sampling of top-secret documents from the KGB First Chief Directorate (foreign intelligence), reflecting operations during the decade when Gorbachev rose to power, with helpful commentary and annotations, all of which provide a unique orientation for researchers.
	www.iisg.nl /~abb/abb_c7.html (660 words)

	Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The SVR evolved from the KGB after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
		In October of 1991, the Centralnaya Sluzhbza Razvedki (or CSR, the Central Intelligence Service) took over the intelligence gathering and analysis duties of the KGB's First Chief Directorate.
		In December of that year, the former chief of the KGB First Chief Directorate, Yevgeni Primakov, was appointed head of the organisation, which was then renamed SVR.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Service_(Russia) (159 words)

	The Venona Story
		The first public release of translated VENONA materials, signals intelligence which had provided an insight into the alarming and hitherto unappreciated breadth and depth of Soviet espionage activities within the United States, was in July 1995.
		First, the FBI carefully questioned Whittaker Chambers, whose earlier efforts to disclose details of his involvement in Soviet espionage in the United States in the 1930s had gone unheeded.
		FCD was the foreign intelligence arm of the KGB responsible for espionage and counterintelligence outside the Soviet Union.
	www.nsa.gov /publications/publi00039.cfm (13061 words)

	MILNET: Intelligence Agencies - former KGB
		First Department - U.S. and Latin America - Consists of a chief, two deputies, fifty staff officers, recruiters, agent handlers, reservists, and 300 professional survillants on permanent loan from the Surveillance Directorate.
		The First through Fourth supervise general investigations and work with local KGB offices in the four geographical sections in which the Soviet Union is secretly partitioned for administrative convenience.
		Fifth Chief Directorate - Dissidents consisting of five directions (numbered five thru nine from their numbers previously used when these directions were part of the Second Chief Directorate) and the Jewish Department.
	www.milnet.com /kgb.htm (1639 words)

	No. 00-F 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gen. Viktor Cherkesov, was a career dissident-hunter from the Leningrad KGB Fifth Chief Directorate, the notorious political police unit that persecuted dissidents and religious believers.
		Putin's tenure as FSB director was marred last year by allegations from within the agency that it was involved in extortion and murder rackets.
		Starovoitova, a prominent human-rights worker and anti-corruption crusader, was investigating the contract killing of a St. Petersburg privatization chief at the time of her death.
	www.security-policy.org /papers/2000/00-F3.html (2897 words)

	AllRefer.com - Russia - Internal Security Before 1991 - Successor Agencies to the KGB \| Russian Information Resource
		For example, the KGB's Seventh Chief Directorate, whose task was to provide pe rsonnel and equipment for surveillance operations, was responsible for surveillance of both foreigners and Soviet citizens.
		The First Chief Directorate was responsible for KGB operations abroad.
		The Procuracy was the chief investigatory and prosecutorial agency for nonpolitical crimes, with a hierarchical organization that provided procurators (state prosecutors) at all levels of government.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/russia/russia203.html (1459 words)

	KGB organization of the Committee for State Security - Russia / Soviet Intelligence Agencies
		Directorate S recruited, trained, and managed KGB officers assigned to foreign countries under false identities.
		Directorate I was established in 1969 to review past operations as a guide to improving future initiatives, although in practice it was said to function more as a dumping-ground for aging or inept officers.
		Special Service I was responsible for the correlation and dissemination of routine intelligence collected by the First Chief Directorate, apart from technical intelligence collected and processed by Directorate T. Other related responsibilities included publication of a weekly intelligence summary for Party leaders, briefing officers prior to foreign assignment, conducting special studies at Central Committee direction.
	www.ulfsbo.nu /kgb/kgb_8.html (965 words)

	ISCIP - Perspective
		The Moscow city KGB seemed to be a bellwether for the rest of the apparatus: its new chief, appointed by a reformist mayor, was Yevgeni Savostyanov, an associate of dissident leader Andrei Sakharov.
		Yel'tsin's first state security initiative, re-naming the USSR KGB components and placing them under his authority, was contained in a set of decrees postdated to take effect on 20 December 1991, "Chekists' Day," in observance of the founding of the Cheka on that same date in 1917.
		The SVR is the re-named First Chief Directorate of the USSR KGB, responsible for espionage activity and analysis abroad.
	www.bu.edu /iscip/vol8/Waller.html (3425 words)

	ISCIP - Perspective
		He could have been with the counterintelligence chief directorate, the economic counterintelligence directorate, or the surveillance directorate, but why he would hide such connections is unclear.
		Radio Liberty analyst Victor Yasmann raises the possibility that Putin was an officer in the Fifth Chief Directorate, the KGB division that served as the political police, ideological enforcement and domestic spying unit.
		While the First and Fifth Chief Directorates in the glasnost' period sought out Communist leaders in Soviet bloc countries who supported Gorbachev-style reforms, the Fifth was also at work in the region on another project, as East Germany's Gauck Commission discovered.
	www.bu.edu /iscip/vol10/Waller.html (3672 words)

	Former CIA and KGB spies to face off at UD March 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		From 1965-70, he served as deputy resident and acting chief of the residency at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. Kalugin rose quickly in the First Chief Directorate, becoming the youngest general in the history of the KGB.
		His internal criticism of lawlessness, arbitrary rule and cronyism within the KGB caused friction with KGB leadership and he was demoted to serve as first deputy chief of internal security in Leningrad from 1980 to 1987.
		He recalls that for the first time in his career, he saw that the KGB's internal functions had little to do with the security of the state and everything to do with keeping corrupt Communist Party officials in power.
	www.udel.edu /PR/UDaily/2003/spies031103.html (773 words)

	Recognized HTML document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The executive action component of the Soviet government is currently designated the 13th Department of the KGB intelligence directorate (First Chief Directorate).
		The earliest known predecessor of the 13th Department was the so-called "Directorate of Special Tasks" reportedly established within the NKVD in December 1936 for terror purposes.
		In late 1945 or early 1946 this directorate was replaced by a unit of the MGB known as Spets Byuro #1, which was organized to retain Fourth Directorate personnel to support and direct partisan activities behind enemy lines in the event of a future war.
	www.cia.gov /csi/kent_csi/docs/v19i3a01p_0003.htm (516 words)

	The Jews and The Bicycle Riders - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		First it was Gusinsky and Berezovsky and now the pressure is spreading to Khodorkovsky, and Abramovitch.
		The First Chief Directorate of the KGB and the Sixth Directorate were concerned about the potential political and economic collapse of the
		It was the KGB and the Komsomol that established the first stock and commodities exchanges, "private" banks, and trading houses through which the Soviets' strategic stockpiles of minerals, metals, fuel and other wealth were sold.
	english.pravda.ru /politics/2001/07/20/10586.html (2778 words)

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