One of the most effective intelligence services in the world after the war became the Soviet GRU.Secrets of the military intelligence safely stored in the archives, some of which do not expire.The success of our agents often have to be judged only after their failure or through the decades.
Russian intelligence service as an organizational structure emerged in the XVI century.Ivan IV the Terrible established the Ambassadorial order, in the number of functions which may include the collection of information useful for the most rational management of foreign policy.
combines diplomatic and secret work and the great poet Alexander Griboyedov, whose fate has shown how dangerous the profession is a scout.
At the end of the XIX and early XX century Russian agents had an extensive network in almost all countries of the world.Equipped perfectly trained personnel, it operated successfully and effectively.
Events of 1917 and the ensuing civil war adversely affected the state of the security services and their structure was virtually destroyed.The new government had to create new exploration.
In the fashion to abbreviations and acronyms writing service that collects information of military value, gained unimportant for the uninitiated called "Registrupr" (1918).To obey the structure of the field headquarters of the Red Army, and we can say that the modern military intelligence GRU is its direct descendant.Further transformation Registrupra and rename it to the Intelligence Management (EDM) has expressed the desire to streamline the activities of Soviet agents abroad.
To improve the reliability of the data sources have been diversified.Information supplied by the world's largest and unmatched performance network of agents of the Comintern, military intelligence, the NKVD, and several other services operating abroad, including diplomats.
military intelligence service worked effectively during the Great Patriotic War, on a par with the 4th Department of the NKVD.Staffing was created after careful selection and training.In 1945, the army was called structure that has survived to the present day.
main sources of foreign secrets in the post-war period began managing the "C" MGB (later KGB) and GRU military intelligence.The functions were divided between them, but the specifics of illegal work did not allow a clear distinction.
economic and technical information, production of which was the responsibility of security often overlap with the information of a military nature.However, such competition is not harmed departmental common cause, but rather contributed to the success.Thus, the role in obtaining atomic secrets of the Manhattan Project, which played a par with the foreign service of the NKVD and GRU military intelligence, can not be overestimated.
In the second half of the XX century to the Soviet agents poses challenges.The widening gap in the technological backwardness of the USSR from the Western countries, required reliable information about the technical characteristics and design solutions in the field of modern military equipment.It does not stand aside from these problems, and military intelligence.Spetsnaz GRU was involved in covert operations far beyond their homeland.During the Middle East conflict, the Vietnam War and other episodes of the armed conflict opposing systems were mined and transported to the USSR latest models of tanks, aircraft and electronic equipment a potential enemy.
military intelligence GRU modern Russia is structurally divided into 13 departments of territorial division and function.They work in multidisciplinary scientists from analysts and economists, to connoisseurs of methods of psychological warfare and sabotage.Geography working areas - the entire globe over which spread its wings bat depicted on the emblem of life.
