Pervoye glavnoye upravlenie

The Pervoje glawnoje uprawlenije ( PGU , Russian Первое главное управление ; German  First Headquarters ) or the First Directorate of the KGB was a department of the KGB that was responsible for foreign espionage, and until 1954 the foreign intelligence department of the GPU's political state police .

history

The PGU emerged in 1952 from the former political foreign intelligence service of the Soviet Union INO . In 1954 this was incorporated into the newly founded KGB.

The PGU was its most important foreign intelligence service until the end of the Soviet Union. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , its activities were initially taken over by the ZSR (Zentralnaja Sluschba Raswedki, German: Central Intelligence Service), which in 1991 finally merged with the then newly founded External Intelligence Service (SWR) .

literature

• Christopher Andrew, Wassili Mitrochin: The Black Book of the KGB. Moscow's fight against the west . Propylaea, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-549-05588-9 .
• Helmut Roewer , Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl : Lexicon of the secret services in the 20th century . Herbig, Munich 2003, p. 347, ISBN 3-7766-2317-9 .