List of Russian secret services

The list of Russian secret services includes all institutions of intelligence work in Russia.

FSB

German: Federal Service for Security
Protection of the Constitution, subordinate to the Interior Ministry. Counter-espionage (military and civil), fight against terrorism and organized crime. Uses all kinds of information gathering, observation of foreign nationals as well, surveillance of the internet, in certain cases also international espionage. Before 1995 it was called FSK. Known in connection with the plutonium affair .
Data retention Sorm
around 100,000 employees.

German: Federal Agency for Government Telecommunications and Information
Espionage and defense in the telecommunications and electronic sector, secures telecommunications from the army and government, security against eavesdropping and encryption techniques, but also clarifies, receives foreign messages and decrypts, allegedly good technical equipment, as powerful as corresponding services of the USA.
Disbanded in 2003 and taken over by the FSB like FPS. The immediate successor is the SSSN .
around 120,000 employees

German: Federal Service for Border Guard
responsible for securing and guarding the Russian external borders and border regions, including international espionage.
Acquired by the FSB in 2002
more than 200,000 employees

German: Federal Guard Service
Responsible for the security of the government and the president, personal and property protection, according to the president's instructions, intelligence activities for defense or espionage.
about 40,000 employees.

German: Headquarters for Enlightenment
responsible for military espionage abroad, subordinate to the Russian Defense Ministry, according to its own statements "most secret" service in Russia, collects and analyzes information in the field of military policy, strategy, geography, armaments technology and products that can be used by the military.
about 12,000 employees.

German: Service for external reconnaissance
Responsible for civil international espionage, collects and analyzes information relevant to the intelligence service in business, science, technology and politics ( industrial espionage ), also with the help of recruited agents abroad and espionage from foreign intelligence services.
around 15,000 employees.

↑ Jürgen Marks: PLUTONIUM. Kind regards from Moscow. In: Focus. February 12, 1996, accessed February 25, 2014 .
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