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In the late Cold War, the KGB was successful with intelligence coups in the cases of the mercenary walk-in recruits FBI counterspy Robert Hanssen (1979–2001) and CIA Soviet Division officer Aldrich Ames (1985–1994).
KGB działało początkowo na prawach „ministerstwa”, podlegając bezpośrednio premierowi. Pierwszym przewodniczącym KGB został generał Iwan Sierow. Stał on na czele komitetu przez cztery lata, od 1954 do 1958. Wcześniej Sierow był zastępcą dowódcy i dowódcą GRU.
The first chief of the Soviet foreign intelligence service, Cheka foreign department (Inostranny Otdel —INO), was Yakov Davydov. He headed the foreign department until late 1921, when he was replaced by longtime revolutionary Solomon Mogilevsky. He led INO only for few months, as in 1925 he died in a plane crash.
6 dni temu · At its peak the KGB was the largest secret-police and foreign-intelligence organization in the world. Researchers with access to Communist Party archives put the number of KGB personnel at more than 480,000, including 200,000 soldiers in the Border Guards.
6 dni temu · The KGB was the foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Soviet Union. When was the KGB created? The KGB was created in 1954 to serve as the “sword and shield of the Communist Party” in the Soviet Union.
1 mar 2018 · The KGB was the primary security and intelligence agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until the nation collapsed in 1991, when the FSB replaced the KGB.
25 cze 2022 · The KGB and the CIA are emblematic symbols of the Cold War. Did they consist of world-class spies? What were each agency’s successes and what were their failures?
