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Authors: Christopher Andrew

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The World Was Going Our Way

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Table of Contents
 
 
 
 
 
ALSO BY CHRISTOPHER ANDREW AND VASILI MITROKHIN
 
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive
and the Secret History of the KGB
ALSO BY CHRISTOPHER ANDREW
 
 
 
Théophile Delcassé and the Making of the Entente Cordiale
The First World War: Causes and Consequences
(Volume 19 of the
Hamlyn History of the World
)
France Overseas: The Great War and the Climax
of French Overseas Expansion
(with A. S. Kanya-Forstner)
The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence
Communities in the Twentieth Century
(with David Dilks)
Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Making of
the British Intelligence Community
Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence
Intelligence and International Relations 1900-1945
(with Jeremy Noakes)
KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations
from Lenin to Gorbachev
(with Oleg Gordievsky)
Instructions from the Centre: Top Secret Files on
KGB Foreign Operations 1975-1985
(published in the USA as
Comrade Kryuchkov’s Instructions
)
(with Oleg Gordievsky)
More Instructions from the Centre: Top Secret Files on
KGB Global Operations 1975-1985
(with Oleg Gordievsky)
For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and
the American Presidency from Washington to Bush
Eternal Vigilance? Fifty Years of the CIA
(with Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones)
 
ALSO BY VASILI MITROKHIN
 
 
KGB Lexicon: The Soviet Intelligence Officer’s Handbook
(editor)
 
In Memory of
 
 
Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin
(1922-2004)
and
Nina Mikhailovna Mitrokhina
(1924-1999)
The Evolution of the KGB, 1917-91
 
The functions, unlike the nomenclature, of the Soviet security and intelligence apparatus remained relatively constant throughout the period 1917-91. In recognition of that continuity, KGB officers frequently described themselves, like the original members of the Cheka, as Chekisty. The term KGB is sometimes used to denote the security and intelligence apparatus of the whole Soviet era, as well as, more correctly, for the period after 1954.
 
 
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
 
 
 
 
Founded in 1920, the foreign intelligence department of the Cheka and its inter-war successors was known as the Inostranni Otdel (INO). From 1941 to 1947 it was succeeded by the Inostrannoye Upravlenie (INU), also known as the First Directorate. From 1947 to 1951, the main foreign intelligence functions were taken over by the Komitet Informatsii (KI). From 1952 to 1991 foreign intelligence was run by the First Chief Directorate (save for the period from March 1953 to March 1954, when it was known, confusingly, as the Second Chief Directorate).
 
 
 
HEADQUARTERS
 
 
 
Foreign intelligence officers and directives to residencies referred to KGB headquarters as the ‘Centre’. In practice the ‘Centre’ usually referred to the HQ of foreign intelligence rather than of the KGB as a whole. The organization of the KGB First Chief (Foreign Intelligence) Directorate is given in Appendix D.
 
 
 
KGB TERMINOLOGY
 
 
 
 
For detailed definitions, see Mitrokhin (ed.),
KGB Lexicon
.
 
 
Abbreviations and Acronyms
 
 
AFSA
Armed Forces Security [SIGINT] Agency (USA)
ANC
African National Congress
ARA
American Relief Association
ASA
Army Security [SIGINT] Agency (USA)
AVH
Hungarian security and intelligence agency
AVO
predecessor of AVH
AWACS
airborne warning and control system
BfV
security service (FRG)
BND
foreign intelligence agency (FRG)
BNS
Bureau of National Security (Syria)
CCP
Chinese Communist Party
CDR
Committee for the Defence of the Revolution (Cuba)
CDU
Christian Democratic Union (FRG)
Centre
HQ of the KGB (or FCD) and their predecessors
Cheka
Vserossiiskaya Chrezvychainaya Komissiya po Borbe s Kontrrevolyutsiei i Sabotazhem: All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (predecessor of KGB (1917-22))
CI
counter-intelligence
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency (USA)
CISPES
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (USA)
COCOM
Coordinating Committee for East-West Trade (NATO and Japan)
Comecon
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Soviet bloc)
Comintern
Communist (Third) International
CPC
Christian Peace Conference
CPC
Communist Party of Canada
CPCz
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
CPGB
Communist Party of Great Britain
CPI
Communist Party of India
CPJ
Communist Party of Japan
CPM
Communist Party of India, Marxist
CPSA
Communist Party of South Africa (later SACP)
CPSU
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CPUSA
Communist Party of the United States of America
CSU
Christian Social Union (FRG; ally of CDU)
DCI
Director of Central Intelligence (USA)
Derg
Co-ordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police and National Guard (Ethiopia)
DGI
Dirección General de Inteligencia (Cuba)
DGS
Portuguese security service
DGSE
French foreign intelligence service
DIA
Defense Intelligence Agency (USA)
DISA
Direção de Informação e Seguranca de Angola
DLB
dead letter-box
DRG
diversionnye razvedyvatelnye gruppy
: Soviet sabotage and intelligence groups
DRU
Dirección Revolucionaria Unida (El Salvador)
DS
Bulgarian security and intelligence service
DST
French security service
EPS
Ejército Popular Sandinista (Nicaragua)
F Line
‘Special Actions’ department in KGB residencies
FAPSI
Federalnoye Agentsvo Pravitelstvennoi Sviazi i Informatsii: Russian (post-Soviet) SIGINT agency
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA)
FCD
First Chief [Foreign Intelligence] Directorate, KGB
FCO
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK)
FLN
Front de Libération Nationale (Algeria)
FMLN
Farabundo Martí de Liberación Nacional (El Salvador)
FNLA
Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola
FRAP
Frente de Acción Popular (Chile)
FRELIMO
Frente de Libertação de Moçambique
FRG
Federal Republic of Germany
FSB
Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti: Russian security and intelligence service
FSLN
Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (Nicaragua)
GCHQ
Government Communications Head-Quarters (British SIGINT Agency)
GDR
German Democratic Republic
GKNT
Gosudarstvennyi Komitet po Nauke i Tekhnologii: State Committee for Science and Technology
GPU
Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie: Soviet security and intelligence service (within NKVD, 1922-23)
GRU
Glavnoe Razvedyvatelnoe Upravlenie: Soviet Military Intelligence
GUGB
Glavnoe Upravlenie Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti: Soviet security and intelligence service (within NKVD, 1934-43)
Gulag
Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei: Labour Camps Directorate
HUMINT
intelligence from human sources (espionage)
HVA
GDR foreign intelligence service
ICBM
intercontinental ballistic missile
ICP
Iraqi Communist Party
IDF
Israeli Defence Force
IMINT
imagery intelligence
INO
Inostrannyi Otdel: foreign intelligence department of Cheka/GPU/OGPU/GUGB, 1920-41; predecessor of INU
INU
Inostrannoe Upravlenie: foreign intelligence directorate of NKGB/GUGB/MGB, 1941-47
IRA
Irish Republican Army
ISC
Intelligence and Security Committee (UK)
ISI
Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence
JCP
Japanese Communist Party
JIC
Joint Intelligence Committee (UK)
JSP
Japanese Socialist Party
KDP
Kurdistan Democratic Party
KGB
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti: Soviet security and intelligence service (1954-91)
KHAD
Afghan security service
KI
Komitet Informatsii: Soviet foreign intelligence agency (1947-51), initially combining foreign intelligence directorates of MGB and GRU
KMT
Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalists)
Komsomol
Communist Youth League
KR Line
Counter-intelligence department in KGB residencies
KUTV
Kommunisticheskii Universitet Trudiashchikhsia Vostoka: Communist University of the Toilers of the East
LDP
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
LLB
live letter-box
MEISON
All-Ethiopian Socialist Movement
MGB
Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti: Soviet Ministry of State Security (1946-54)
MGIMO
Moscow State Institute for International Relations
MI5
UK security service
MI6
alternative designation for SIS (UK)
MITI
Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan)
MLSh
Mezhdunarodnaya Leninskaya Shkola: International Lenin School
MPLA
Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola
MVD
Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del: Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs
N Line
illegal support department in KGB residencies
NAM
Non-Aligned Movement
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NKGB
Narodnyi Kommissariat Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti: Soviet security and intelligence service (1941-46; within NKVD, 1941-43)
NKVD
Narodnyi Kommissariat Vnutrennikh Del: People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (incorporated state security, 1922-23, 1934-43)
NPUP
National Progressive Unionist Party (Egypt)
NSA
National Security [SIGINT] Agency (USA)
NSC
National Security Council (USA)
NSS
National Security Service (Somalia)
NSZRiS
People’s [anti-Bolshevik] Union for Defence of Country and Freedom
NTS
National Labour Alliance (Soviet émigré social-democratic movement)
OAU
Organization of African Unity
OGPU
Obedinennoe Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe
Upravlenie: Soviet security and intelligence service, 1923-34)
Okhrana
Tsarist security service, 1881-1917
OMS
Comintern international liaison department
OSS
Office of Strategic Services (USA)
OT
Operational Technical Support (FCD)
OUN
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
OZNA
Yugoslav security and intelligence service; predecessor of UDBA
PAIGC
Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde
PCA
Algerian Communist Party
PCF
French Communist Party
PCI
Italian Communist Party
PCP
Portuguese Communist Party
PDP
Partido del Pueblo (Panama)
PDPA
Afghan Communist Party
PDRY
People’s Democratic Republic of [South] Yemen
PFLP
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
PLO
Palestine Liberation Organization
PPP
Pakistan People’s Party
PR Line
political intelligence department in KGB residencies
PRI
Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Mexico)
PSOE
Spanish Socialist Party
PUK
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
PUWP
Polish United Workers [Communist] Party
RCMP
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RENAMO
Resistência Nacional Mocambicana
RYAN
raketno-yadernoe napadenie
(nuclear missile attack)
SACP
South African Communist Party (previously CPSA)
SADUM
Central Asian Spiritual Directorate of Muslims
SALT
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
SAM
Soviet surface-to-air missile
SB
Polish security and intelligence service
SCD
Second Chief [Internal Security and Counter-Intelligence] Directorate (KGB)
SDECE
French foreign intelligence service; predecessor of DGSE
SDI
US Strategic Defense Initiative (‘Star Wars’)
SDR
Somali Democratic Republic
SED
Socialist Unity [Communist] Party (GDR)
SIGINT
intelligence derived from interception and analysis of signals
SIN
Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional (Peru)
SIS
Secret Intelligence Service (UK)
SK Line
Soviet colony department in KGB residencies
SKP
Communist Party of Finland
SNASP
Serviço Nacional de Segurança Popular (Mozambique)
SNI
Serviço Nacional de Informações (Brazil)
SOE
Special Operations Executive (UK)
SPC
Sindh Provincial Committee
SPD
Social Democratic Party (FRG)
Spetsnaz
Soviet special forces
SR
Socialist Revolutionary
SRC
Supreme Revolutionary Council (Somalia)
SRSP
Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
S&T
scientific and technological intelligence
Stapo
Austrian police security service
Stasi
GDR Ministry of State Security
Stavka
Wartime Soviet GHQ/high command
StB
Czechoslovak security and intelligence service
SVR
Sluzhba Vneshnei Razvedki: Russian (post-Soviet) foreign intelligence service
SWAPO
South-West Africa People’s Association
TUC
Trades Union Congress (UK)
UAR
United Arab Republic
UB
Polish security and intelligence service; predecessor of SB
UDBA
Yugoslav security and intelligence service
UNITA
União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola
VPK
Voenno-promyshlennaya Komissiya: Soviet Military Industrial Commission
VTNRP
Voenno-Trudovaya Narodnaya Revolyutsionnaya Partiya: Military-Labour People’s Revolutionary Party; Russian name for anti-Chinese underground in XUAR
VVR
Supreme Military Council (anti-Bolshevik Ukrainian underground)
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