Andrei Soldatov - The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia’s Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad

1920INO (Inostranny Otdel; Foreign Department) at Cheka (the All Russian Extraordinary Commission, known as the Soviet secret police, established in 1917)

1922INO at GPU (Glavnoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie; Chief Political Department) and then at OGPU (Obyedinyonnoye Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye; Joint State Political Department)

1930Administration for Special Tasks at INO of OGPU and the Fifth Section at INO (emigration)

1934INO, renamed in 1939 into the Fifth Department at NKVD (Narodny Kommisariat Vnutrennikh Del; Peoples Commissariat of Internal Affairs)

1941First Directorate at NKGB (Narodny Kommisariat Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti; Peoples Commissariat of State Security)

1945Ninth Section (Emigration) at First Directorate at NKGB

1946Section 10-A (Emigration) at the First Directorate of the MGB (Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti; Ministry of State Security)

1947Section EM at KI (Komitet Informatsii; Information Committee)

1949Third Section at First Directorate (External Counterintelligence) of the MGB

1951Third Section at First Chief Directorate (Foreign Intelligence) of the MGB

1953Ninth and then Fifth Section (External Counterintelligence) at the Second Chief Directorate of the MVD (Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del; Interior Ministry)

1954Ninth Section within the First Chief Directorate (Foreign Intelligence) of the KGB

1963Second Service (External Counterintelligence) of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB

1974Department K (External Counterintelligence) of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB. The Fourth Section of Department K was specifically tasked to deal with the migr organizations.

1975Nineteenth Section within the First Chief Directorate of the KGB

1991SVR (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki; Foreign Intelligence Service or External Intelligence)

1992GRU (Glavnoye Razvedivatelnoe UpravlenieGRU VS Rossii; military intelligence agency known as the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia)

1995FSB (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti; Federal Security Service)

LEADERS OF NATIONS

Joseph Stalin

Leonid Brezhnev

Richard Nixon

Mikhail Gorbachev

Boris Yeltsin

Vladimir Putin

STALINS SECRET SERVICES

Vasily Zarubin, chief of station in the United States

Mikhail Trilisser, head of the Foreign Intelligence Department (INO)

Nahum Eitingon, chief operative in charge of high-profile assassinations

Liza Gorskaya, operative; Zarubins third wife

Yakov Blyumkin, operative, head of illegal station in Istanbul

Jacob Golos, head of Soviet spy ring in New York

Earl Browder, chairman of Communist Party in the United States

George Koval, illegal in New York

Caridad Mercader and Ramon Mercader, Eitingons assets

COMMITTEE OF STATE SECURITY (KGB)

Yuri Andropov, chairman

Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the foreign intelligence branchthe First Chief Directorateand later chairman

Leonid Shebarshin, head of the First Chief Directorate

Alexander Vassiliev, KGB operative, journalist, and later historian

Yuri Sagaidak, KGB operative, journalist, and later financier

YELTSINS SECRET SERVICES

Evgeny Primakov, head of SVR Foreign Intelligence agency

Yuri Kobaladze, SVRs head of public relations

Alexander Litvinenko, FSB officer, refugee in London, and author

PUTINS SECRET SERVICES

Sergei Naryshkin, head of SVR Foreign Intelligence agency

Sergei Tretyakov, SVR deputy head of station in New York

Anna Chapman, SVR agent in the United States (New York)

Mikhail Semenko, SVR agent in the United States (Washington, DC)

Evgeny Buryakov, SVR operative, New York station

EITINGON/ZARUBIN FAMILY

Zoya Zarubina, spy and translator; daughter of Vasily Zarubin and stepdaughter of Nahum Eitingon

Alexei Kozlov, financier, inmate, activist, and Russian-German businessman; grandson of Zoya Zarubina

Olga Romanova, journalist and head of Russia Behind Bars; wife of Alexei Kozlov

KARA-MURZA FAMILY