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unusual facts about Soviet Military Intelligence



History of Soviet espionage

For most of the history of the Soviet Union there were two intelligence agencies, the First Chief (Foreign Intelligence) Directorate (FCD) of the KGB and Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU).

William Ward Pigman

William Ward Pigman (March 5, 1910 – September 30, 1977), also known as Ward Pigman, was a former chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at New York Medical College, and a suspected Soviet Union spy as part of the "Karl group" for Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU).


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Nicholas Dozenberg

Dozenberg tesified to Congress that in the early 1930s he was dispatched on a mission to Bucharest, Romania, to establish a motion picture company which was to be a front for Soviet military intelligence.