KGB Essays

Pavel Sudoplatov’s Special Tasks tracks his career as a Soviet intelligence officer, specifically the covert missions that defined his career. Sudoplatov started out as a soldier for the Red Army, conducting low level intelligence duties like translating messages. From there, he was recruited to the CHEKA (Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counterrevolution and Sabotage), the primary Soviet intelligence service at that time. He began to build his career, starting with the assassination of Yevhen

CIA agent of over 30 years, was one that had more than just one consequence(Kubic, 2017). Throughout many years he gave up secrets and names that involved undercover operations. These secrets were worth large amounts of money to enemy contacts in the KGB. Ames is a unique kind of traidor; for he is not only motivated by money and opportunity but also pleasure and satisfaction of being able to give out “confidential” information(Kubic,2017). Ames showed on many accounts that he had very few regrets about

United States Army’s Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) launched a secret program with efforts to gather and decrypt (and later exploit) Soviet diplomatic communications. It took nearly two years before American cryptologists were able to break the KGB encryption. The information that was gained – in more than 2,000 messages – provided “insight into Soviet intentions and treasonous activities of government employees” (“VENONA”). The Venona files are most famous for exposing Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

The film one has chosen to review and analyse is George Clooney's “Goodnight and Good Luck”. It is set in America in the 1950's, a full decade after World War II ended, a period of economic growth and recovery after the Great Depression. It was a time of revolution in terms of social, economic and cultural advancement. Having said that, it was also a period of political turmoil, paranoia and intimidation under Senator Joseph McCarthy. This movie explores the way journalist Edward Murrow used his

When one thinks of espionage between the United States and the Soviet Union, the first time period that usually comes to mind is the Cold War. The Cold War is perhaps the point when Soviet Intelligence was at its peak performance in obtaining large quantities of intelligence at an exceptionally expedient pace against the United States. This superb performance, however, did not materialize overnight; it took vast networks of agents and procedures for recruiting and handling assets that required trial

The KGB was a soviet organization, that acted as the “Sword and Shield” of the communist party. The KGB, standing for the Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (Committee of State Security), is the equivalent of the United States CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The KGB’s many responsibilities included those of “arresting, imprisoning, or executing enemies of the soviet union”. However the main responsibility of the KGB was the gathering of intelligence (britannica.com/topic/KGB). Their ability

such as, their access to resources not available to the Soviets, their ability to gather new recruits, and their skill to not draw attention to their work. Haynes, Klehr, and Vassiliev created Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (2009) to exemplify the history of the KGB in America and the USSR’s reasons for needing American agents. Because the Americans offered so many outlets to gather information, the Soviets sought them out in order to gain a competitive advantage over a world that wanted

The KGB, or the Committee for State Security, was a Soviet intelligence agency and security force established in 1954. The agency's primary responsibility was to maintain the Soviet Union's domestic security, as well as conduct intelligence operations abroad. The KGB's tactics were known for being ruthless, including censorship, propaganda, and the use of secret police to suppress dissent and maintain the Communist Party's power. During its existence, the KGB had a significant impact on Soviet society

Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War offers an in depth analysis and account of the most heated period of espionage warfare in Berlin. The book’s conclusion with the building of the Berlin Wall is a logical endpoint to the story as the almost overnight construction of the Berlin Wall represented the closing of the Iron Curtain – as clandestine meetings between agents were no longer possible, thus ended Berlin’s role as a unique operational asset in it’s access to the East. The main strengths

known as the dogs are a great example of the KGB in the Soviet Union. The KGB was like the secret keeping bodyguards of Russia, specifically Stalin. The KGB’s functions and roles of the Soviet Union are greatly compared to the dogs in the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. The KGB strengthened the Soviet Union by their affairs with many other countries and their amount of secrets kept. The Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, also known as the KGB or the Committee for State Security maintained

counterparts, like the KGB or Stasi. Thus, to better ascertain the nature of American policing, it is important to determine the extent to which the FBI may be considered a secret police force. As defining the characteristics of a secret police force can be a topic of discussion unto itself, this analysis will not focus on identifying the precise features of secret police organizations. To highlight how the FBI may be considered a secret police force, it will compare the FBI to the KGB, an organization

Hook: The KGB instilled great terror in Russia until its dismantling in 1991. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the reader has the opportunity to see the steps in the link of the past and the future as it unfolds, and what dire consequences can result from the actions of such agencies of terror. Arguably, the FSB is a modern day KGB. Despite repeated promises by the Russian government to reform Russian Intelligence Agencies, the FSB continues to enjoy the same unmitigated power of the KGB to rule by

The KGB picked him up in front of a theater and drove around Vienna for an hour attempting to detect surveillance. (Hoffman, 2015) The KGB took Howard to the Russian Embassy and brought him in through the back door, where two KGB officers debriefed Howard. Howard only knew the two officers as Victor and Boris, in which they debriefed Howard for three to four hours

collection that were utilized in the case are dead drops, signal sites, and double agents. The deception method used in the case are the KGB efforts to divert attention from Aldrich. Aldrich used the dead drops method to pass documents and receive money through impersonal clandestine communication sites. It was used to increase the security of Aldrich’s communications with the KGB. Aldrich would leave signals to the Soviets to indicate the sites where the dead drops site will be. He did so by using placing

the height of the Arms Race between the United States and Soviet Russia and it was intended to create the first nuclear bomb. The creation of this bomb would eventually escalate the arms race into a full out Cold War. Conclusion: The result of the KGB operative infiltration into the manhattan project was an increased speed at which Russian nuclear scientists developed their own bomb. The Soviets took the US by surprise as they had created the bomb five years before predicted. The creation of their

but he got scared and never set it off, nor did he open fire. There are multiple theories for the motives of this attack. They range from the KGB hiring him, to him doing it with the intent of bringing fame to the Grey Wolves, as well as a few other theories. The strongest theory is that the planning came out of Moscow and was originated by the KGB. KGB official, Yuri Andropov, said that the Pope being anti-communist, was a threat to the Soviet reign over the eastern european countries. The pope

under his control; similarly, the Secret Russian Police, the KGB and the

and that is the reason for him defecting to the USSR. Many believe the KGB (CIA version for the USSR) came into contact with him when he arrived (Dillion). While the KGB did not recruit Lee to be a spy it seems like they met and help spread anti-us sentiment into Lee. While Lee was defected the famous bay of pig’s incident happen. This is the closest the USA and the USSR have been to nuclear war and it would make sense for the KGB want to get rid of a leader who almost launched missiles at them for

relationship after World War II. Although the USSR and the US were allies, tensions had started to increase between the two nations because of their different political ideologies. During this time, spies were used by both the CIA in the US and the KGB in Russia to try to gather inside information about the other nation’s government and their nuclear weapon technology. Spies from both nations were scattered throughout the world, mainly in Russia, America, Germany, and England. This book details countless

species, when one is given such a large amount of power, corruption is soon to follow. Joseph Stalin was a cruel leader that played a key role as a propagandist in the Russian Revolution and made numerous achievements during his ruling, such as the KGB; George Orwell portrays Stalin through his character Napoleon, is was a manipulative and cunning leader that cares much less about the general well-being and happiness of his citizens