Which USSR agency had spies all over the US?

KGB
As early as the 1920s, the Soviet Union, through its GRU, OGPU, NKVD, and KGB intelligence agencies, used Russian and foreign-born nationals, as well as Communists of American origin to perform espionage activities in the United States, forming various spy rings.

What was the Soviet version of the CIA?

Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)

Flag of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation
Agency overview
Formed	December 1991
Preceding agency	KGB First Chief Directorate
Jurisdiction	Russia

What does KGB mean in English?

Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
KGB, Russian in full Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, English Committee for State Security, foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Soviet Union.

What is Russian secret police called?

NKVD

Agency overview
Superseding agencies	Ministry of Internal Affairs People’s Commissariat for State Security
Type	• Secret police • Intelligence agency • Law enforcement • Gendarmerie • Border guard • Prison authority
Jurisdiction	Soviet Union
Headquarters	11-13 ulitsa Bol. Lubyanka, Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union

What was agreed upon by the US Britain and the Soviet Union at the Yalta Conference?

The Americans and the British generally agreed that future governments of the Eastern European nations bordering the Soviet Union should be “friendly” to the Soviet regime while the Soviets pledged to allow free elections in all territories liberated from Nazi Germany.

What role did the CIA and KGB play during the Cold War?

While several organizations such as the CIA and KGB became synonymous with Cold War espionage, many others played key roles in the collection and protection of the section concerning detection of spying, and analysis of a wide host of intelligence disciplines.

Where did the Supreme Soviet meet?

Kremlin Presidium
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet

Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Президиум Верховного Совета
Elections
Voting system	Election by joint session of both houses of the Supreme Soviet
Meeting place
Kremlin Presidium, Moscow Kremlin55.7523°N 37.6200°ECoordinates:55.7523°N 37.6200°E

What was Russian secret police called?

Who led Lenin’s secret police?

Feliz Dzerzhinsky
The Cheka was the Bolshevik security force or secret police. It was formed by Vladimir Lenin in a December 1917 decree and charged with identifying and dealing with potential counter-revolutionaries. 2. The Cheka was headed by Feliz Dzerzhinsky, a Bolshevik of Polish extraction.

What did Hoffman reveal about the CIA in Moscow?

Here are 11 things Hoffman reveals about the CIA in Moscow. 1. CIA wives were used as spies. In the earliest days of the Moscow station, almost all of the CIA’s case officers were male.

How did the CIA develop ESP?

In a highly classified project conducted first in a California research lab in the 1970s, and later at an Army base in Maryland, the CIA, Army and Defense Intelligence Agency recruited men and women claiming to have powers of extrasensory perception (ESP) to help uncover military and domestic intelligence secrets.

Who were the Soviet spies in the United States?

Since the late 1920s, the Soviet Union, through its GRU, OGPU, NKVD, and KGB intelligence agencies, used Russian and foreign-born nationals as well as Communists of American origin to perform espionage activities in the United States.

Where does the CIA fund its top-secret research?

In response, the CIA began funding its own top-secret research, headquartered at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California. Ex-Israeli paratrooper, Uri Geller, became famous for his ability to bend metal cutlery with his mind.