KGB

The Committee for State Security (, ), abbreviated as KGB (, ; ) was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka, OGPU, and NKVD. Attached to the Council of Ministers, it was the chief government agency of "union-republican jurisdiction", carrying out internal security, foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence and secret police functions. Similar agencies operated in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from the Russian SFSR, where the KGB was headquartered, with many ass

popular name for the headquarters of the KGB and affiliated prison on Lubyanka Square in Moscow, Russia

Russian spetsnaz unit under the command of the FSB

National intelligence agency of Belarus

Prison in Moscow, Russia

KGB leaked secret files given by Vasili Mitrokhin

Directorate "V" of the FSB Special Purpose Center, often referred to as Spetsgruppa "V" Vympel (pennant in Russian, originated from German , and having the same meaning), but also known as KGB Directorate "V", Vega Group, is a stand-alone sub-unit of Russia's special forces within the Russian Special Purpose Center of the Federal Security Service (FSB).

term for the actions of political warfare conducted by the Soviet and Russian security services

Audio bug formerly hidden in Moscow US embassy

museum in Vilnius, Lithuania

sports club founded in the Soviet Union

foreign surveillance organisation of the Soviet Union, within the KGB

administrative building of the OGPU-NKVD-KGB-FSB in Saint Petersburg, Russia

FAPSI () or Federal Agency of Government Communications and Information (FAGCI) () was a Russian government agency, which was responsible for signal intelligence and security of governmental communications.

espionage academy in Russia

1945–1955 British Secret Intelligence Service program to infiltrate its agents into Poland and Baltic states

law enforcement agency

former Latvian headquarters of the KGB

secret research facility

In cryptography, Fialka (M-125) is the name of a Cold War-era Soviet cipher machine. A rotor machine, the device uses 10 rotors, each with 30 contacts along with mechanical pins to control stepping. It also makes use of a punched card mechanism. Fialka means "violet" in Russian. Information regarding the machine was quite scarce until c. 2005 because the device had been kept secret.

residential building complex in Warsaw, Poland

SOUD, standing for System of Joint Acquisition of Enemy Data was a computerized intelligence exchange system where information acquired by the intelligence and security agencies from participating Warsaw Pact countries was stored. thumb|The application form for the SOUD system The intelligence exchange organization was founded in 1977, and its initial goal was to safeguard the USSR from 'foreign threats' during the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Stasi engineers conceived the system using stolen Western technology, and it was operational in 1979. Its main computer was based in Moscow, the input lang

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building in Vilnius, Lithuania

Russian college of FSB Academy

organization in Oryol, Russia