KGB

For nearly a century, the KGB, the Committee for State Security within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, controlled the USSR. The members of the committee were trained assassins as well as accomplished spies. Through several well-placed spies and paid civilians, the KGB was able to control the Politburo, the Soviet parliament, and the rest of the union. The KGB was in charge of the Siberian labor camps – even today, Vladimir Putin’s secret service, the FSB, is charged with the upkeep of those

the KGB’s (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, or in English, Committee for State Security) greatest spies. Actually Vladimir Putin’s KGB career was, at best, mediocre to terrible according to the KGB. Nothing in his background suggests his bad record. It could just happen to be that his assignments failed due strictly to random chance, then again, this is the KGB; are they hiding something about their current president? Maybe what they are hiding is that he was one of their greatest spies. Putin

Lauren Mason Chris Kidder Lessons in Vietnam and International Relations 29 May 2015 Espionage During the Cold War: The CIA versus the KGB The year was 2007. The fall of the Soviet Union occurred about sixteen years prior, and according to all international governments and news sources, the Cold War was over. The hostility between two superpowers had thawed, but upon closer inspection, this was not true. Based on counterintelligence acquired by the CIA, the Russian spy population in the United

of these types of events and looked towards using agencies to uncover the secrets of the Soviets. The Central Intelligence Agency or CIA was formed in the United States, and the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopanosti (Committee for State Security) or KGB was formed in the USSR. Both of the agencies conducted covert operations and were able to infiltrate enemy governments to uncover any information that was needed. These spy agencies acted as distractions for the war by fighting in an arms race more

For almost 15 years the U.S. has been in a constant state of war. Various terrorist organizations, from al-Quade, to the Taliban, and now Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have maintained our focus so much so that we have almost forgotten about prior threats. Ten years prior to the start of the conflict in the Middle East, the Cold War had officially concluded, ending almost 45 years of server political and military tensions between the U.S. and Russian following WWII. During this period of

Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America is a book written by John Earl Haynes. the book goes into very specific detail of the activity of the KGB in the United States during the 1930’s and 1940’s. This book which was written with the KGB archives formed the most complete source of soviet espionage in America. Co-author of the book Alexander Vassiliev was given access to stalin era records and material of Soviet espionage activity against the United States. Haynes also presented a webcast for

Ames went to the D.C. Soviet Embassy, gave an envelope addressed to the most senior KGB official at the embassy to the duty officer, and had a brief conversation with Chuvakhin. The message contained Ames’ true name, the information regarding the double agents, and a request for $50,000. In May 1985, via Chuvakhin, the KGB agreed to pay Ames (“An Assessment,” 1994). In June 1985, without prompting from the KGB, Ames supplied information concerning ten high level Soviet CIA and FBI assets. The

The KGB (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, translating to Committee for State Security) recruited Oswald to kill JFK and made an in depth dossier on the assassination as a way to deflect any blame. Russia’s connection with Oswald was well known; in particular, his recruitment and close surveillance by the KGB is well documented. The KGB knew about Oswald’s irregular personality and pro-communist mentality; they also knew about how he revealed his intentions to give the Soviets sensitive intel

A"After the end of World War II, the world was split into two -- East and West. This marked the beginning of the era called the Cold War" The Cold War was a war based on ideologies. The United States of America representing freedom and democracy and Russia representing order and socialism. These separated ideals is what started the deadliest competition in history, where both sides gathered intelligence on how other side was progressing and used that information as leverage against the other, this

A polygraph test or a lie detector is a device that measures and records variances in blood pressure, pulse and heart rate, while whomever is hooked up to it is asked a series of questions. There are different types of questions that are asked. There are relevant questions, control questions, irrelevant questions, and concealed information or guilty knowledge questions. Analyze how the testing of Aldrich Ames was handled by the polygraph operators. What could have been done to eliminate the errors