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The KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991. The main duties of the KGB were to gather intelligence in other nations, conduct counterintelligence, maintain the secret police, KGB military corps and the border guards, suppress internal resistance, and conduct electronic espionage.
CI Reader: American Revolution into the New MillenniumA Counterintelligence Reader Volume 3, Chapter 1: Cold War Counterintelligence. PDF file. office of the Director of Central Intelligence. Retrieved June 21, 2005. Proyect, Louis. Harvey Klehr's "The Secret World of American Communism". Published online May 25, 2002.
Engelbert Broda (29 August 1910, in Vienna – 26 October 1983) was an Austrian chemist and a suspected Soviet KGB operative with a codenamed: Eric, who could have been a main Russian source on the American-led Manhattan Project on the British side that may have accelerated and advanced the Soviet program of nuclear weapons. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Marian Zacharski, Polish Intelligence officer arrested 1981. Among other things, he won access to material on the then-new Patriot and Phoenix missiles, the enhanced version of Hawk air-to-air missile, radar instrumentation for F-15 fighter, "stealth radar" for B-1 and Stealth bombers, an experimental radar system being tested by U.S. Navy, and submarine sonar.
On 3 December 1991, the KGB was officially dissolved. [3] It was succeeded in Russia by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and what would later become the Federal Security Service (FSB). Following the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War , the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia established its own KGB, keeping the unreformed name. [ 4 ]
Print/export Download as PDF; ... [1] is a 2004 nonfiction ... Victor Cherkashin recruited American spies Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames to work for the USSR's KGB ...
[1] [2] [3] Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy (and a later edition published as Dezinformatsia: The Strategy of Soviet Disinformation ) is a non-fiction book about disinformation and information warfare used by the KGB during the Soviet Union period, as part of their active measures tactics.
Johnson worked for the KGB between 1953 and 1964, and passed on information while stationed at various sites in Europe and the U.S. Most famously, when working in the U.S. courier center at Orly Airport south of Paris , he occasionally had night duty alone in the center, where dispatches arrived to and from Air Force and Army bases in Europe.