LECTURE 5 KEY TERMS:   
SOVIET / RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES


Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)

Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) [Military Intelligence]
[ГРУ:  Гла́вное Разве́дывательное Управле́ние]

Leon Trotsky

Federal Security Service (FSB)
ФСБ: Федеральная Служба Безопасности

Alexander Litvenenko

Anna Politkovskaya

"wet jobs"

Committee for State Security (KGB)
[КГБ: 

Lubyanka on Dzerzhinsky Square

Vladimir Putin 

Cheka (Vcheka - The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage)
[ЧК: Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия по борьбе с контрреволюцией и саботажем]

People's Will (Narodnaya Volya)

assassination of Tsar Alexander II 1881

Okhrana 

agent provocateurs 

Father Georgi Gapon

Roman Malinovsky 

Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (1905)

Dialogues in Hell (1864)

Thule Society

Alfred Rosenberg

Rudolf Hess

Dietrich Eckert

Adolf Hitler

Russo-Japanese War of 1905

Revolution of 1905

February Revolution of 1917

sealed railway car 

Vladimir Illych Ulyanov (Lenin)

The October "Revolution" 1917

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Russian Civil War (1917-1922)

Allied Intervention (1918-1925)

Leon Trotsky

the Sword and Shield of the Revolution

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky ("Iron Felix")

Chekisty

extra-judicial reprisal

Red Terror

Revolutionary Tribunals

Paul Dukes 

Sydney Reilly (Solomon 'Shlomo' Rosenblum)

Robert Bruce Lockhart

Rene Marchand

Fanya Kaplan

Diplomats’ Plot or the Lockhart Plot

INO (Foreign Section of the Cheka)

Comintern

Operation "Sindikat" and Operation Trust

LINKS

SVR  Official Home Page
http://svr.gov.ru/

FSB Official Home Page
http://www.fsb.ru/

Russian Intelligence Agencies News (English)
http://www.agentura.ru/english/

CIA History on the Okhrana
Link

Bruce Lockhart British Agent   [text of book]
http://www.gwpda.org/wwi-www/BritAgent/BATC.htm

 
Agency Ancestry
SVR/FSB  
KGB  
MVD         
MGB  
NKGB 
NKVD 
OGPU 
GPU 
Cheka 

1991-1995
1954
1946
1943
1941
1934
1923
1922
1917