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The former building of the KGB in Vilnius, Lithuania
srikanth
|  Jul 11, 2022
First Chief Directorate
(Foreign Operations) – foreign espionage (now the Foreign Intelligence Service or SVR in Russian).
Second Chief Directorate – counter-intelligence, internal political control.
Third Chief Directorate
(Armed Forces) – military counter-intelligence and armed forces political surveillance.
Fourth Directorate (Transportation security)
Fifth Chief Directorate – censorship and internal security against artistic, political, and religious dissension; renamed "Directorate Z", protecting the Constitutional order, in 1989.
Sixth Directorate (Economic Counter-intelligence, industrial security)
Seventh Directorate (Surveillance) – of Soviet nationals and foreigners.
Eighth Chief Directorate – monitored-managed national, foreign, and overseas communications, cryptologic equipment, and research and development.
Ninth Directorate
(Guards and KGB Protection Service) – The 40,000-man uniformed bodyguard for the
CPSU
leaders and families, guarded critical government installations (nuclear weapons, etc.), operated the
Moscow VIP subway
, and secure Government–Party telephony. President Yeltsin transformed it to the
Federal Protective Service
(FPS).
Fifteenth Directorate (Security of Government Installations)
Sixteenth Directorate (SIGINT and communications interception) – operated the national and government telephone and telegraph systems.
Border Guards Directorate responsible for the
Soviet Border Troops
.
Operations and Technology Directorate – research laboratories for recording devices and
Laboratory 12
for poisons and drugs.
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