During the Cold War, the GRU, like many of its Western rivals, maintained rezidenturas, or resident spies, worldwide; these included both "legal" agents, based at Soviet embassies with official diplomatic cover, and "illegal" officers without cover.

The GRU had the task of handling all military intelligence, particularly the collection of intelligence of military or political significance from sources outside the Soviet Union. It operated rezidenturas (residencies) all over the world, along with the signals intelligence (SIGINT) station in Lourdes, Cuba , and throughout the Soviet-bloc ...

2021年4月19日 · What do we know about the Russian intelligence organisation, the GRU? If the definition of a successful intelligence service is obscurity, the GRU is probably Russia's most effective spy...

Russia reported losing its first GRU military intelligence spy in the ongoing Ukraine war in March 2022. GRU agents also spied on Ukrainian forces in 2014, intercepted communications and seized important military outposts, credited for the ‘bloodless seizure of Crimea’.

According to “Preparing a Spy: The GRU Spetsnaz System” (a book written by former special forces troops), spies in the GRU Spetsnaz are expected to be capable of essentially everything that James Bond does on screen: parachuting, rappelling from a helicopter, hang gliding, steering a speedboat, operating heavy machinery, flying a plane ...

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2018年7月20日 · When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the KGB was broken up with separate domestic and foreign intelligence services complete with new names. The lesser-known GRU, founded a century ago by...

2018年9月6日 · British officials announced Wednesday that they have charged two alleged Russian military intelligence officers with the nerve agent poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury - though they held out little hope of being able to bring them to justice.

Lt. Col. Oleg Penkovsky: Western Spy in Soviet GRU This group of documents highlights the highs and lows of the intelligence business. The recruitment of a well-placed spy, in this case a high-ranking Soviet military intelligence officer, lessened the tensions of the Cold War by providing information on the intentions, strength, and ...

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