This is an unclassified overview of Russian Intelligence Agencies edited from open source material.The Intelligence Community in Russia consists of a complex series of intelligence agencies operating under the supervision of the National Security Council of Russia. The main Russian governmental services responsible for gathering foreign intelligence are: 1. Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) - The Foreign Intelligence Service reports directly to the President of Russia. 2. The GRU - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Military of Russia. 3. 12th Chief Directorate - 12th Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, responsible for Nuclear Security & 4. The Federal Security Service (FSB) - (formerly the KGB) The Federal Security Service is responsible for counter-intelligence, state security and anti-terrorist operations. The GRU first predecessor in post-tsarist Russia was created on October 21, 1918 under the sponsorship of Leon Trotsky, who was then the civilian leader of the Red Army. It was originally known as the Registration Directorate (RU). The GRU is the foreign military intelligence main directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (formerly the Soviet Army General Staff of the Soviet Union). The official full name is Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The GRU is Russia's largest foreign intelligence agency. In 1997 it deployed six times as many agents in foreign countries as the SVR, the successor of the KGB's foreign operations directorate. It also commanded 25,000 Spetsnaz troops in 1997. This book gives an unclassified overview of The Russian Intelligence Community.This book is designed to be a state of the art, superb academic reference work and provide an overview of the topic and give the reader a structured knowledge to familiarize yourself with the topic at the most affordable price possible.The accuracy and knowledge is of an international viewpoint as the edited articles represent the inputs of many knowledgeable individuals and some of the most current knowledge on the topic, based on the date of publication.

Presents Russia's intelligence service from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century as a czar's secret police force, to the communists' KGB, to the creation of the SVR in the 1990s by Yeltsin.

As the election results of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections still reverberate in the U.S. and throughout the world, the discussion on how Donald Trump won and whether Russian influence helped his win continues. Leaked conspiracy theories which would have fitted well in a John le Carré spy novel seem corroborated by U.S. intelligence reports. In this volume, you find declassified versions of two reports by the U.S. intelligence agencies released at the end of 2016 and at the beginning of 2017. The first report, Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections, describes Russia's activities in the media, social media, and cyberspace during the latest and previous U.S. elections. In this report, the U.S. Intelligence Community confirms "...Moscow's longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order...." Also, they state that this campaign had a clear preference for Donald Trump to win. This report concludes ominously that Moscow will apply lessons from this campaign to influence other elections worldwide. The second report, GRIZZLY STEPPE- Russian Malicious Cyber Activity, shows how two groups, part of the Russian Intelligence Services, hacked into an-unnamed-U.S. political party. Furthermore, it offers technical advice and suggestions to organizations on how they could protect themselves against cyberattacks. Although it might take some time before we really understand the impact on the 2016 elections, these two brief reports are fascinating reading for political observers, journalists, and readers concerned about what really happened in 2016.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 89. Chapters: Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, GRU officers, Russia intelligence operations, Russian spies, SVR officers, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Russian apartment bombings, Illegals Program, Viktor Suvorov, Ignace Poretsky, Mike Hancock, Richard Sorge, Foreign Intelligence Service, Anna Chapman, Active measures, George Koval, Vladislav Surkov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Alexander Gregory Barmine, Walter Krivitsky, Oleg Penkovsky, Igor Gouzenko, Arbi Barayev, Alexander Rado, Ivan Serov, Pavel Sudoplatov, J nis K. B rzi, Herman Simm, Roman Mashkov, Vicky Pelaez, Aleksey Galkin, Stanislav Levchenko, List of deaths related to Russian apartment bombings, Stanislav Lunev, Manfred Stern, Cyberwarfare in Russia, FAPSI, Alexander Ulanovsky, Igor Sechin, Active reserve, Dimitri Floydorovich Sudayev, Ivan Susloparov, Dmitry Kozak, Leopold Trepper, Dmitry Gennadyevich Medvedev, Alfred Tilton, Paul William Hampel, Lubyanka Criminal Group, Dmitri Polyakov, Valentin Markin, Border Security Zone of Russia, Valentin Korabelnikov, Vladimir Alganov, Death of a Dissident, Vympel, Ivan Ilyichev, The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB, Simon Aralov, Edna Patterson, Boris Bukov, Russian Coast Guard, Pyotr Semyonovich Popov, John Stanislaw Kubary, Federal Counterintelligence Service, Bolshoy Dom, Valeri Zentsov, Shigehiro Hagisaki, Yuri Yevgenyevich Ivanov, Filipp Golikov, Yevgeni Ivanov, Ignacy Witczak, Lourdes SIGINT Station, Gorets mutiny, Anatoly Zotov, Alexander Shlyakhturov, Alexander Zaporozhsky.

Provides an unclassified reference handbook which explains the categories of intelligence threat, provides an overview of worldwide threats in each category, and identifies available resources for obtaining threat information. Contents: intelligence collection activities and disciplines (computer intrusion, etc.); adversary foreign intelligence operations (Russian, Chinese, Cuban, North Korean and Romanian); terrorist intelligence operations; economic collections directed against the U.S. (industrial espionage); open source collection; the changing threat and OPSEC programs.

This report includes an analytic assessment drafted and coordinated among The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and The National Security Agency (NSA), which draws on intelligence information collected and disseminated by those three agencies. It covers the motivation and scope of Moscow's intentions regarding US elections and Moscow's use of cyber tools and media campaigns to influence US public opinion. The assessment focuses on activities aimed at the 2016 US presidential election and draws on our understanding of previous Russian influence operations. When we use the term "we" it refers to an assessment by all three agencies. * This report is a declassified version of a highly classified assessment. This document's conclusions are identical to the highly classified assessment, but this document does not include the full supporting information, including specific intelligence on key elements of the influence campaign. Given the redactions, we made minor edits purely for readability and flow. We did not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election. The US Intelligence Community is charged with monitoring and assessing the intentions, capabilities, and actions of foreign actors; it does not analyze US political processes or US public opinion. * New information continues to emerge, providing increased insight into Russian activities. * PHOTOS REMOVED

Tales of daring secret operatives and risky plots are not just the stuff of movies. There are real Spies around the World at work every day. This series investigates the espionage agencies of four countries, tracking their histories of intelligence gathering and spotlighting some of the most famous—or infamous—missions and associated participants. Fictional spies from popular culture are contrasted with their real-life counterparts, while historical photos give witness to the true and sometimes incredible actions of everyday spies.