Notorious Russian Spies Throughout History

Notorious - Russian Spies Through History From the Soviet era on, organized clandestine agents from the Motherland have operated in the west with daring and inguinity
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Headquarters
Above, the Moscow offices of the Committee for State Security, better known as the KGB. The storied intelligence agency was reorganized twice after the fall of the Soviet Union, finally becoming the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, or the FSB. Its foreign branch is known as the Foreign Intelligence Service, known by its Russian acronym, SVR, with its headquarters in Yasenevo, in Moscow.

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