The affidavit does not explicitly say that Hanssen gave a copy of the ACS software to his Soviet/Russian co-conspirators, but it does say he gave them 26 computer diskettes and more than 6,000 pages of documents in the 27 letters and 33 packages he delivered to them over the years.We are achieving a new strategic relationship. The difference is important – the latter is an irrational fear of Russians; the former, only of Putin’s Russia and those who do her bidding.

“They must act boldly, abandon business as usual, take chances, and use this moment to map the path to a new future.” (Dr. McFaul is now senior director for Russia on the Obama administration’s National Security Council. He only remained in post for a year (before being appointed as Russian Prime Minister), but in that time undertook a large scale re-organisation that placed many people friendly to him in key FSB posts.

Le FSB est engagé principalement dans les affaires intérieures ; les fonctions de renseignement à l'étranger étant assurées par le SVR (anciennement Premier directorat du KGB).Toutefois le FSB inclut également le Service fédéral des communications et informations gouvernementales (), impliqué dans la surveillance électronique à l'étranger. Everyone who has ever seen a spy movie, or has even a passing knowledge of Russia and the Soviet Union has heard of the KGB.

It employs more than 200,000 people (compared with around 30,000 employees of the FBI, an organisation in the United States that has a similar role and powers). The KGB was abolished in 1991, soon after its Chairman, Vladimir Kryuchkov, led the failed August 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.Today, Russia’s internal security organisation is called the FSB (Federal Security Service), and its external intelligence agency is called the SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service). KGB officers standing guard during Margaret Thatcher's visit to Russia in 1985. The era in which the United States and Russia saw each other as an enemy or strategic threat has ended. The important difference is that, at its core, the reshuffle marks Putin’s asserting his own personal authority over Russia’s security apparatus. “The FBI is moving to the forefront of this new foreign policy.” Mr. Holbrooke, a director and leading light at the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, is now a key adviser to the Obama administration and its point man on Afghanistan and Pakistan.Thank you for joining the discussion at The New American. KGB - KGB - Creation and role of the KGB: The KGB was created in 1954 to serve as the “sword and shield of the Communist Party.” The new security service, which played a major role in the purge of Beria’s supporters, was designed to be carefully controlled by senior Communist Party officials. Putin, who in 2004 said that “there is no such thing as a former KGB man,” has always had a complicated relationship with the FSB.

Few may recall that several years before he was faced with the unpleasant task of announcing traitor Robert Hannsen’s “exceptionally grave” betrayals to the KGB/FSB, Bill Clinton’s FBI Director Louis Freeh was singing the praises of the KGB/FSB claque running Russia.

“Together, we’re invincible,” he effused. The KGB was initially replaced, in 1991, by the Russian FSK (Federal Counterintelligence Service), but was reorganised by Yeltsin in 1995, and became the Russian FSB.

We are partners and we will cooperate to advance stability, security, and economic integration, and to jointly counter global challenges and to help resolve regional conflicts.Pardon me for puncturing the balloon, but it must be noted that we’ve been treated to this spectacle before.

“Leaders in both countries must lead,” he insists. The FSB’s special wrath, however, is directed not at foreigners but at Russians it regards as fifth columnists and traitors. In 2006, an alleged KGB …

Most of its employees are border guards, though, and only around 60,000 are involved in the more ‘interesting’ aspects of FSB work.Since 2006, the FSB has had the power to assassinate terrorist suspects, both at home and abroad. The CIA primarily operates externally to the United States and adopts specific policies and procedures to ensure that its work is carried out in a generally fair and transparent (to those who have a “need to know”) way.

The SVR has a great deal of Russian state funding.

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Thank you again for being a valued reader of The New American. Famous KGB assassinations include the killing of Dag Hammarskjold, the second UN Secretary General and Georgi Markov, who was memorably killed by a ricin pellet fired from an umbrella.

Over the course of more than two decades, “Ramon” had done incalculable damage to the United States’ security, selling Top Secret information to the Soviet GRU (military intelligence) and KGB, and to the KGB’s Russian successor agency, the FSB, and its foreign arm, the SVR.On September 11th, Putin did not hesitate to call his new friend, George W. Bush, to communicate his full support for the United States and the American people. Copyright © 2019 The New American

If Vlad is to be believed, Alexander Lebedev only ever left his KGB/FSB job supposedly.