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Other collateral sources reported that a group of Soviet military intelligence officers from the Sixth Directorate (responsible for Soviet SIGINT matters) of the Chief Intelligence Directorate (GRU) visited North Korea shortly after the seizure of the ship and inspected the vessel. Later, the North
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Suvorov alleges that during his training and service he was often reminded that exiting the GRU (retiring) was only possible through "The Smoke Stack". This was a GRU reference to a training film shown to him, in which he alleges he watched a condemned agent being burned alive in a furnace.,
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Koreans were reported to have turned over some of the captured equipment to the GRU. Apparently, some of this equipment was taken to Soviet radio plants in Kharkov, Voronezh, and Gorkij for examination by technicians.
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The existence of the GRU was not publicized during the Soviet era, but documents concerning it became available in the West in the late 1920s, and it was mentioned in the 1931 memoirs of the first OGPU defector,
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Nonetheless, the Cheka infiltrated the GRU in 1919. That worsened a fierce rivalry between the two agencies, which were both engaged in espionage. The rivalry became even more intense than that between the
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As originally established, the Registration Department was not directly subordinate to the General Staff (at the time called the Red Army Field Staff –
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Hunt, Graeme. "Spies and Revolutionaries – A History of New Zealand subversion" (Auckland: Reed, 2009), p.171
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until 1991. For a few months it was also the foreign military intelligence agency of the newly established
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The GRU's first predecessor in Russia formed on October 21, 1918 by secret order under the sponsorship of
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The GRU in its modern form was created by Stalin in February 1942, less than a year after the
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was its first head. In his history of the early years of the GRU, Raymond W. Leonard writes:
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The GRU was known in the Soviet government for its fierce independence from the rival "
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Cass series on Soviet military theory and practice ; 3. London: Cass, 1990.
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Foreign military intelligence service of the Soviet Union and Russia (1918-92)
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Secret soldiers of the revolution: Soviet military intelligence, 1918–1933.
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Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy: British Policy in the Post-War World
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Through the Eyes of the Enemy: The Autobiography of Stanislav Lunev
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This article is about the Soviet GRU. For the Russian GRU, see
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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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from 1962 to 1983 and spied for the Soviets for 20 years
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Fifth Department of the Russian Imperial Chief of Staff
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Index

Main Intelligence Directorate (Soviet Union)
GRU (Russian Federation)

GRU (Russian Federation)
Red Army
Soviet Army
Ministry of Defense
Osnaz
Spetsnaz GRU

RVS
romanized
[ˈglavnəjərɐzˈvʲɛdɨvətʲɪlʲnəjəʊprɐˈvlʲenʲɪjə]
[ɡɨ̞‿rɨ̞‿ˈu]
[gru]
military intelligence
General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces
Russian Federation
Russian GRU

Leon Trotsky
Jukums Vācietis
commander-in-chief
Red Army
Ephraim Sklyansky
Semyon Aralov
Soviet–Polish War
State Defense Council
RVSR
Politburo

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