KGB — For other uses, see KGB (disambiguation). Committee for State Security Комитет государственной безопасности Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti … Wikipedia
Fedotov, Petr Vasilyevich — (1900–1963) After 16 years service in the provinces, Fedotov was brought to Moscow by Nikolai Yezhov to head the NKVD’s Secret Political Department in 1937. During World War II, he headed the NKVD’s counterintelligence directorate and was… … Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
Ministry of Foreign Affairs — Initially, the Bolshevik Party saw little need for diplomacy. The first commissar of foreign affairs, Leon Trotsky, believed that the 1917 Revolution had made traditional diplomacy obsolete, and that it would set off a series of European… … Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich — (1890–1986) No one save Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin cast a longer shadow across the first fours decades of Soviet history than V. M. Molotov. Born Skryabin, Molotov joined the Bolshevik Party in 1905 and took the pseudonym “Molotov,”… … Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
Vyshinsky, Andrei Yanuarievich — (1883–1954) Vyshinsky, a Menshevik in his youth, served a sentence for political radicalism with Joseph Stalin in 1907–1908. He apparently befriended Stalin, feeding him from food packages he received from his wealthy parents. In the late… … Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
Russian Foreign Intelligence Organizations — 1920– • 20 December 1920 Foreign Intelligence Section, Cheka • 6 February 1922 Foreign Intelligence Section, GPU • 2 November 1923 Foreign Intelligence Section, OGPU • 10 July 1934 Seventh Section of the State Directorate of State Security of… … Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
