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### Post-Soviet Intelligence Agencies
The [[KGB]] (Committee for State Security) was dissolved following the August 1991 coup attempt and formally abolished in November 1991. Its successor agencies included:
- [[FSB]] (Federal Security Service, Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti) - domestic counterintelligence and internal security, headquartered at the [[Lubyanka]] in [[Moscow]]
- [[FSB]] (Federal Security Service, Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti) - domestic counterintelligence and internal security, headquartered at the [[Lubyanka]] in Moscow
- [[SVR]] (Foreign Intelligence Service, Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki) - foreign intelligence, headquartered at Yasenevo in Moscow
- [[GRU]] (Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff) - military intelligence, which survived the Soviet collapse organizationally intact
- [[FSO]] (Federal Protective Service) - protection of senior officials
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### Relevance to Vault Subjects
Russia appears throughout this vault as the origin or target of the intelligence operations it documents:
- The [[Cold War]] and the [[Soviet Union]]'s intelligence programs generated the American intelligence bureaucracy, including the CIA's parapsychology research programs ([[STARGATE PROJECT]]) that monitored Soviet "psychotronics" research
- The [[Cold War]] and the Soviet Union's intelligence programs generated the American intelligence bureaucracy, including the CIA's parapsychology research programs ([[Stargate Project]]) that monitored Soviet "psychotronics" research
- The [[Gehlen Organization]]'s early Cold War intelligence on the Soviet military was provided to the CIA in exchange for protection of former Nazi intelligence personnel
- Robert Maxwell's claimed intelligence connections involved Soviet-era KGB contacts alongside [[Mossad]] relationships
- Russian organized crime organizations that emerged from the Soviet collapse became entangled with [[BCCI]]-era financial networks in the post-1991 period[^1]