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Russia is now ruled by a duumvirate, one of whom has a kgb background and who reinstated a form of totalitarian rule.

But there was one group that had good reason to be aggrieved: members of the former KGB.

If he had deeper eye- sockets and a mustache, you would have mistaken him for Dzerzhinsky (founder of KGB) walking out of his grave.

And I caught the guys, and they turned out to be working for what was then the Soviet KGB, and stealing information and selling it.

Influential though it was, the KGB was a "combat division" of the Communist Party, and subordinate to it.

She was pregnant with the child of a KGB officer and now lives on a BND pension in southern Germany.

The use of illegals, of the type rounded up in the United States, is an old KGB throwback that traces to the Stalin era.

It would, however, take a very brave person to tell a former KGB agent and judo expert he looks a little bit silly.

Unlike most of the ruling elite, he did not serve in the KGB, which may make him less prone to paranoia and conspiracy theories.

The KGB files show that a powerful section of the KGB believed that this was the case.

The Soviet KGB and its pre-revolutionary ancestors did not care much about money; power was what mattered.

As I seek to prove in The KGB Poison Factory, the Litvinenko operation itself was the work of a Russian illegal.

The case is the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB agent who was murdered by radioactive poisoning in London last November.

According to a former KGB general, Pavel Sudoplatov, Roosevelt had at least two Soviet agents in his inner cabinet.

Unlike many around the leader, he has no background in the KGB or security agencies.

He was not really a spy, as he has been described, but worked for domestic units of the FSB, one of the KGB's post-Soviet successors.

Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, has an inner circle dating from his time at St Petersburg city hall and his career in the old KGB.

He has no KGB background and, within the Kremlin, has steered largely clear of the Yukos affair.

The KGB provided a crucial service of surveillance and suppression; it was a state within a state.

This followed the murder in London of a former KGB officer.

A year later, Alksnis was accused of homosexuality and espionage and shot by NKVD, the KGB's predecessor.

The book reveals how the KGB penetrated the top levels of the Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower administration.

Soviet soldiers erected a tent over the unmarked grave and three KGB officers dug up the ammunition boxes containing the charred skeletons.

They developed extraordinary memories for faces, instantly recognizing KGB officers who had been out of Britain for years.

At heart, Lukashenko remains a man of Russia's Brezhnev era: His secret police even still use the acronym KGB.

His friends believed, no matter what the actual cause of death, that between them, the KGB and the SIS had sapped his will to live.

To protect themselves from rampant crime and racketeering, the oligarchs tried to privatise parts of the KGB.

Anatoly Lebedev, an ex-KGB agent who is now a prominent environmental activist, accompanies me to one of these places.

"I mean, the FBI is acting like the KGB for heaven's sake in this case, " says Sherri Sera. "And they were given carte blanche to do it. "

Above, the Moscow offices of the Committee for State Security, better known as the KGB.

Gagarin wrote a 10-page memo and gave it to his best friend in the KGB, Venyamin Russayev, but nobody dared send it up the chain of command.

from, say, the KGB from knowing a great deal about the secret services, as various episodes over the decades proved.

Next to him, just up the stairs, is a portrait of another KGB protege who went on to bigger things, Vladimir Putin.

Russia today is ruled by the KGB elite, has a Soviet anthem, servile media, corrupt courts and a rubber-stamping parliament.

Agents were often shared between MI6 and the KGB in the latter stages of the war , and possibility of a plant was obvious .

Two of the KGB men had been convicted in their country of compromising dozens of Soviet-era and Russian agents in the West.

Ogorodnik passed on hundreds of classified documents to the U. S. before he was caught by the KGB.

McCaul and his men began to make brazen attempts to recruit KGB men.

By contrast Mr Putin, a former KGB officer, remade Russian politics in his own image after coming to power.

Putin himself is a 16-year KGB veteran and former chief of the Federal Security Service, known as the FSB.

But in one case, a Soviet illegal served as the Costa Rican ambassador to Italy. His detailed story is in The Orlov KGB File, my next book.

A recent remark by Sergei Ivanov, the deputy prime minister and a former KGB general, illustrates the ambiguity.

He talked of reform and modernisation. Perhaps, then, Russia was finally moving away from its lugubrious KGB track.

The KGB was still a threatening presence, housed, appropriately, in the building that had once been the Gestapo headquarters.

He met with Russayev, the now-demoted KGB agent, and said, "I'm not going to make it back from this flight. "

Three out of four senior Russian officials today were once affiliated to the KGB and other security and military organisations.

One example that I particularly like is the shoe, concealment devices, you see here, and used by the KGB in the 1980s.

Down the road is the Lubyanka - the notorious KGB prison, where prisoners were interrogated in the basement and shot.

A former KGB agent who died from poisoning reportedly had a radioactive substance in his body.

Material from KGB municipal departments including documentation of activities in urban areas, principally Vilnius and Kaunas.

From Stalin's era on, every other Abkhaz family had a KGB officer, a secret agent, or an informer among their relatives.

Anna Chapman and Co. may have seemed silly, but they were actually carrying out Putin's master plan: re-creating the KGB.

are you joking? a KGB tough guy a "man of peace" ? inside his head, he is worst than stalin was.

The KGB sent a flash message to its operatives warning them to prepare for possible nuclear war.

In Soviet days, the KGB was a state within a state.

Q: Has your KGB training helped you as President? There's an old saying "once a spy, always a spy. "

Special units either destroyed on the spot or removed to KGB archives in Russia many thousands of files.

CIA officers still have to elude Russian agents who trail them as closely as the old KGB did.

Today's Russia is not the Soviet Union; for all their common personnel, the FSB is not the KGB.

Once the KGB discovers that I am absent, the pressures on the Japanese to give me back will be incredible, like an avalanche.

In another "scene" , a KGB doctor forces me to strip to the waist, in front of the other participants.

Work plans and reports of the secretariat of the Lithuanian KGB and communications with KGB headquarters in Moscow.

It is now the headquarters of Russia's ubiquitous post-KGB spy agency, the FSB or Federal Security Service.

He raised Sergei Ivanov, the defence minister and another ex-KGB man, to the same position as Mr Medvedev.

but had little desire to meet anywhere they could be seen by KGB types.

In May, British prosecutors announced their intention to prosecute Andrei Lugovoi, another ex-KGB agent, for Litvinenko's murder.

The villain is Andrei Lugovoi, a fellow KGB veteran accused by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) of the crime.

But when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, so did Putin's KGB career.

The west may have tried too hard to pigeonhole Mr Putin, as a liberal, statist or KGB man.

How does one legitimise a state built on the old KGB principles of force and fraud?

Within two years, he left the KGB altogether.

So, when they were approached by a recruiter from Moscow, the four young men agreed to serve the KGB.

Wolfenden was doubly vulnerable to KGB infiltration: He spoke Russian, and he was gay.

He even seemed to downplay Mr Putin's role in the KGB, saying that every country needed an intelligence service.

Tolerance for Boris Yeltsin's faults opened the way for the rigged elections and crony capitalism of Vladimir Putin's ex-KGB regime.

In one corner, ex-KGB tycoons are finding that slumps are a greater test of business ability than booms.

In other ways, too, Mr Putin struggles to escape the instincts of a KGB man.

I do not think Russians understand that we are different; we do not want to be a KGB state again.

KGB officers watched the oligarchs get super-rich while they stayed cash-strapped and sometimes even unpaid.

Will the ex-KGB men now running the country's biggest hydrocarbon firms put profit first or geopolitics or simply self-enrichment?

With his encyclopedic knowledge and understanding of the KGB and its history, he is finishing a new book called The Orlov KGB File.

Her work for others, slap in the face of Soviet bureaucracy and the KGB, piled up from that moment.

And he gained his financial expertise while working for the KGB?

In part, the wish for revenge on those who challenged them in the early 1990s, especially after the abortive KGB coup of August 1991.

The Soviet organ of state security, the KGB, has its roots in the secret police employed by the Czar.

Simultaneously it adopted close ties with Moscow, and particularly with the KGB.

The popular appeal was weaker than the force of the KGB: as many as half of all political prisoners in the Soviet Union were from Ukraine.

Paul, she believes Putin once beset the faithful as a Soviet KGB officer.

He considered bank robbery to alleviate his debts but deemed it easier to peddle secrets to the KGB.

And nearly 80% of Russians were positive about America. But the briefly outlawed Communist Party and the KGB felt betrayed and humiliated.

The professor says he began his career in the KGB in 1976.

Then their anger was diverted to the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the KGB's founding father.

Mr Kondaurov, a former spokesman for the KGB, worked for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who ran and largely owned Yukos.

We've got a high-ranking KGB defector in a safe house near here.

Since 1981, the Moscow command Gelu Wu (military intelligence) and KGB to collect a possible U. S. nuclear strike information.

The first thing you come across after hanging up your coat is Yuri Andropov, the former Soviet leader and KGB boss.

As in the street and at the police station, the KGB and the OMON forces were in control.

to Alexander Lebedev , a Russian oligarch and former KGB agent who was based once in the city.

A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats.

Their large and costly security departments were staffed and run by ex-KGB officers.

Always, KGB officers try to remain invisible.

In Russia a clique of "bureaugarchs" , often former KGB officials, dominate both the Kremlin and business.

Issued by the KGB beginning in the 1950s, this hollow coin could conceal microfilm and microdots.

KGB and RAW are next. RAW is perfect in field and in a background processing.

The interrogating KGB officer pushes me against a filing cabinet.

The headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), successor to the Soviet-era KGB, is located just above the station.

Finally, in 1970, the KGB dug up the corpse, cremated it and secretly scattered the ashes in a river.

Panarin, formerly a KGB analyst and now an academic, gets about two interview requests a day.

"Psychiatry and the KGB operate in direct collusion, " he declared.

highlevelhigh-voltage shock. Stawt demonstrates elaborate devices developed by the CIA and KGB.

Soon KGB officers were staffing the tax police and customs services.

But then Mr Putin, as befits a former KGB officer, started covering his tracks.

The KGB plays a dominant, pervasive role in the Soviet Union's power hierarchy.

Free of all KGB connections, he fits the profile of the modern technocrat.

But the KGB files on these dedicated Soviet agents show a different picture.

Several KGB documents are produced to prove the film is authentic.

Opposition activists are closely monitored by the secret police - still called the KGB.

In return, the kgb promised to give the MEK a full list of CIA agents in Iran.

Eight years later, though, the KGB men seemed poised for revenge.

Mr. Panarin's resume includes many years in the Soviet KGB, an experience shared by other top Russian officials.

The KGB eventually discovered the bug.

In 1961 the KGB confiscated the typescript and even, for good measure, the typewriter ribbon.

I mean KGB, and not just KGB, used to used to torture in order to actually get this data.

This suspicion tainted the KGB careers of all four.

He was a career KGB man.

After graduating from the Leningrad State Univ. Law school in 1975, he served in the KGB for 15 years .

Filipp Bobkov's last day as first deputy chairman of the KGB was January 29 1991.

The real Soviet legacy is in the FSB, the internal security service that is the heir to the Soviet KGB.

Those seeking even grimmer times can visit the Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius, where they can see old KGB cells.

On the night of December27, 1979, a KGB assassination team stormed the palace.

Igor Goloshchapov, a former KGB agent, said Russia was being more open about the suspects 'because they are probably not spies. '

My old friends at KGB despise the GRU.

Even the patient Philby, who is never known to have once said a bad word about the KGB, to anyone who spoke to him, got fed up.

Those in power are from the KGB.

32. A crowd watches the statue of KGB founder Dzerzhinsky being toppled in Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow, on August 22, 1991.

KGB officers: 5, then go to the office.

The victim was Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB man who defected to Britain and was poisoned last year with polonium-210.

Mr Putin is also very much a KGB man.

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