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Post by valpomike on Sept 24, 2009 22:25:47 GMT 1
I understand that the old, K.G.B. is back in operation, for Russia, with a new name. I did not hear what it was. Do any of you know what it is, and why is it there again, and anything more on it.
Mike
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Post by valpomike on Sept 26, 2009 16:56:23 GMT 1
No one out there have any new, or more information on the new KGB, I understand they could be working in Poland, also.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 26, 2009 19:37:33 GMT 1
Ex KGB is called FSB today. Their idol and example to follow is traditionally the Polish aristocrat, Feliks Dzierżyński, who turned communist and in 1920s organized the first Soviet secret police, known for brutality. He was called Iron Feliks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service_(Russia)
History
Initial reorganization of the KGB
During the late 1980s, as the Soviet government and economy were disintegrating, the KGB survived better than most state institutions, suffering far fewer cuts in its personnel and budget. Following the attempted coup of 1991 (in which some KGB units participated)[5] against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the KGB was dismantled and formally ceased to exist from November 1991.[6]
In late 1991 the domestic security functions of the KGB were reconstituted as the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK), which was placed under the control of the president. The FSK had been known initially for some time as the Ministry of Security. In 1995, the FSK was renamed and reorganized into the FSB by the Federal Law of April 3, 1995, "On the Organs of the Federal Security Service in the Russian Federation", granting it additional powers, enabling it to enter private homes and to conduct intelligence activities in Russia as well as abroad in cooperation with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).[7]
The FSB reforms were rounded out by decree No. 633, signed by Boris Yeltsin on June 23, 1995. The decree made the tasks of the FSB more specific, giving the FSB substantial rights to conduct cryptographic work, and described the powers of the FSB director. The number of deputy directors was increased to 8: 2 first deputies, 5 deputies responsible for departments and directorates and 1 deputy director heading the Moscow City and Moscow regional directorate. Yeltsin appointed Colonel-General Mikhail Ivanovich Barsukov as the new director of the FSB.
In 1998 Yeltsin appointed as director of the FSB Vladimir Putin, a KGB veteran who would later succeed Yeltsin as federal president.[8] Yeltsin also ordered the FSB to expand its operations against labor unions in Siberia and to crack down on right-wing dissidents. As president, Putin increased the FSB's powers to include countering foreign intelligence operations, fighting organized crime, and suppressing Chechen separatists.
Controversies
The FSB has the power to enter any home or business without a search warrant if there is sufficient reason to believe that "a crime has been, or is being, committed there".[42][43] Article 24 of the law exempts the agency from certain oversight by Russia’s Public Prosecutor.[7]
Human rights activists have claimed that the FSB has been slow to shed its KGB heritage, and there have been allegations that it has manufactured cases against suspected dissidents and used threats to recruit agents. At the end of the 1990s, critics charged that the FSB had attempted to frame Russian academics involved in joint research with Western arms-control experts.[44]
Despite early promises to reform the Russian intelligence community, the FSB and the services that collect foreign intelligence and signals intelligence (the SVR and the Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information) remained largely unreformed and subject to little legislative or judicial scrutiny.[45] Although some limits were placed on the FSB's domestic surveillance activities – for example, spying on religious institutions and charitable organizations was reduced – all the services continued to be controlled by KGB veterans schooled under the old regime.[45] Moreover, few former KGB officers were removed following the agency's dissolution, and little effort was made to examine the KGB's operations or its use of informants.[46]
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Post by valpomike on Sept 26, 2009 21:45:59 GMT 1
Are they undercover working in Poland? I have been told so. Do you know anything on this? They can do whatever they want in Russia, but not in Poland.
I just hope for the sake of the good Russian's they can stop them, this could lead to another war, that no one wants.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 29, 2009 22:07:02 GMT 1
Are they undercover working in Poland? Elementary. All are working everywhere, undercover. Some are working on cover: ckm.pl/Image/478145_l.jpgYes, elementary. I am systematically informed by my secret informers (plugs) about under and oncover activity in my area. E.g., last week the Russian agent who lives in my street walked a dog and didn`t clean up after it, despite signs all over the lawn. Thoise Russian agents are really cheeky!!! Hmm, what about Polish spies in Russia? Can they do what they want only in Poland? Not so fast. To the best of my knowledge, intelligence receives heavy subsidies to avoid and prevent wars...... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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