SVR

Introduction

SVR is Russia's foreign intelligence organization.  It's the Russian version of BND.  It has a certain structure and departments.  It has a long history; it used to known as KGB.  They have done many operations.  They work with various intelligence agencies in other countries.  They assassinated several people and engaged in cyberterrorism. 

Definition

SVR is short 4 Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki.  It means foreign intelligence service.  They gather, analyze, and evaluate intelligence about countries that weren't apart of the Soviet Union.  It reports directly to the Russian president.  The president is given the preferred policies by them, unlike the U.S.  They make sure the country is safe, protect politicians and there families, surveillance, work with other intelligence agencies, and protect employees of Russian bizznesses overseas.     

Structure

It has "operational, analytical and functional units."  There are 11 operational units.  They observe different parts of the world.  Spooks are in the operational units.  They pretend to be diplomats or journalists when they are spying overseas.  The analytical units makes sense of the intel and report it.  The functional units are management and services.  

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Departments

• "Directorate S, which is responsible for illegal agents (those under deep cover) throughout the world;
• Directorate T, responsible for the collection of scientific and technological intelligence; and
• Directorate K, which carries out infiltration of foreign intelligence and security services and exercises surveillance over Russian citizens abroad.
• Service I, which analyzes and distributes intelligence collected by SVR foreign intelligence officers and agents, publishes a daily current events summaries for the Politburo, and make assessments of future world developments;
• Service A, which is responsible for planning and implementing active measures; and
• Service R, which evaluates SVR operations abroad.
• The Foreign Intelligence Academy is the main training establishment for the SVR."

History

It was the successor of the KGB.  It got started officially in 1991.  The members of SVR feel it started in 1920, because that when Cheka started.  Then it was renamed 6 times b4 it was called SVR.  In the 1930's Russian intelligence worked with the Communist Party of USA to undermine the United States.  They were U.S. politicians that were Russian spies.  During the Cold War a U.S. Navy Chief became an asset of the KGB.  They crushed various revolts in European countries, because they are were anti-Soviet.      

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Operations

They have been undermining democracies in Europe and promoting hatred 4 the U.S.  They also support revolutionary and reactionary political groups.  Industrial espionage is something they excel @, so they can have technology as advanced as Western Europe.   The goal of SVR was to destabilize Western European countries.  They may have a different goal now. 

                                                                   

There was a FBI agent that sold secrets to the Russians.  He was imprisoned 4 it; he got out of prison in 2019.  @ least 2 CIA agents were turned by the KGB.  They were imprisoned 4 it.  One of them get out next year.  A German person gave helicopter info to SRV 4 $10,000.  10 SVR agents were arrested in the U.S. in 2010.  They may have wanted to turn a college graduate like they did in Great Britain.         

                                                                  

The SVR wanted to stop the expansion of NATO and so do I.  NATO should have dissolved after the Soviet Union.  That was the whole point of its existence!!!!  Now it is the military of the EU.  The fear of NATO expansion was the main reason Russia invaded Ukraine.  If there was no NATO, there wouldn't be a war.  NATO was created to stop the Soviets from invading Western Europe.  That is no longer a possibility.  

Sharing is Caring

Intelligence agencies of Belarus, Azerbaijan, and China work closely with SVR.  Together they working on stopping $ laundering, nukes getting into the wrong hands, training, and technical assistance.  Russia stopped sharing intelligence with China in 1959.  They started up again in 1992.   

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Assassinations

The KGB strangulated Abdurrahman Fatalibeyli because he was a traitor.  He was a major in the Soviet army.  Then he joined the Nazis after he was imprisoned in Poland.  After the Nazis lost the Battle of Berlin he became an asset of the CIA.  

The first president of Afghanistan was killed by a communist political party.  They most likely got help from the KGB.  He was a prince and he overthrew the Afghan monarchy, so he could create a one party political system.  Then there's karma.

Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was the president of a Chechen Republic 4 a year.  The UN believed he was working with Al-Qaida.  He wanted to free tribes in the Caucasus Mountains from Russian tyranny.  He may have dipped his toe in Wahabbism, which is the worst form of Islam.  In 2004 a car bomb killed him.  

Alexander Litvinenko was a officer of FSB, b4 he defected 2 the UK.  He was critical of Putin and said Russia was a mafia state.  Russian cops were working with the Red Mafia when was living there.  Some of the ideas (sum or all of which my be true) of Alexander are as follows:  Russia was controlling terrorists around the world, Putin had Russian apartments bombed so he could become president, the hostage crisis in Moscow theatre was staged by FSB assets, Beslan school siege was allowed to happen by FSB, Ayman al-Zawahiri was trained by FSB, Putin is close friends with Semion Mogilevich (crime lord), Putin is a boy rapist and FSB knew about it, and the FSB was behind the Muhammad carton is Denmark.  He was poisoned by plutonium, because he talked to much.  Sometimes people die 4 telling the truth that others don't want the world to know.  Some people are willing to die to get the truth out, I admire them.  "It fortifies my soul to know, that though I perish.  The truth is so."    

There are many more assassinations, but this will suffice.    

Cyberterrorism

SVR helped Trump get in office by demonizing Hillary Clinton.  They tried to help him again in 2020, but it didn't work.  Or maybe this is just propaganda.  '2011-2018 Russian cyber actors had multiple intrusion campaigns on U.S. and international energy sector organizations.'  Sandworm is using new malware on network devices.  They hacked into various levels of governments computers in the U.S.  The list goes on.  Click here to learn more.  

                                                                     

Conclusion

SVR gathers, analyzes, and reports foreign intelligence to Russian leaders.  It has a 3 tier structure and 7 departments.  It has been around since the 1991.  Russian intelligence agencies have been around for 102 years under different names.  They have engaged in many operations.  Sum intelligence agencies from other countries are friendly with them.  Many people have been assassinated by them.  They big on cyberterrorism.   

                                                                     

References

wikipedia.org

google.com

Structure

Operations

Cyberterrorism

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