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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]
- Counterintelligence [r]: Countermeasures to foreign intelligence organizations collecting intelligence against one's own side. [e]
- Secret police [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Intelligence gathering [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Cheka [r]: Initial Communist secret police formed by the Bolsheviks; chekist became a generic Soviet term for the many-named successor Organs of State Security [e]
- NKVD [r]: Add brief definition or description
- NVKD [r]: Add brief definition or description
- OGPU [r]: Add brief definition or description
- MGB [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Committee for State Security (KGB) [r]: Usually known as the KGB, one of Organs of State Security of the Soviet Union, with extensive responsibilities in intelligence (information gathering), border security, counterintelligence and suppression of dissent; split up in the Russian Federation with counterintelligence in the FSB and foreign intelligence in the SVR [e]
Related articles
- Okhrana [r]: Secret police of Russia under the Czars, 1881-1917 [e]
- GRU [r]: Military intelligence agency of the Soviet Union and then Russian Federation [e]
- SVR [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]
