Main Intelligence Directorate of the Soviet Union

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Main_Intelligence_Directorate_of_the_Soviet_Union

GPTKB entity

Statements (95)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	intelligence officer
gptkbp:abbreviation	gptkb:GRU
gptkbp:country	gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:dissolved	1991
gptkbp:employs	spies military attachés signals intelligence officers special forces (Spetsnaz)
gptkbp:founded	1918
gptkbp:headquarters	gptkb:Moscow
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Main Intelligence Directorate of the Soviet Union
gptkbp:nativeName	gptkb:Главное_разведывательное_управление
gptkbp:notableAgent	gptkb:John_Anthony_Walker gptkb:Igor_Gouzenko gptkb:Yuri_Nosenko gptkb:Anthony_Blunt gptkb:David_Greenglass gptkb:Ethel_Rosenberg gptkb:Guy_Burgess gptkb:John_Cairncross gptkb:John_Walker gptkb:Julius_Rosenberg gptkb:Kim_Philby gptkb:Klaus_Fuchs gptkb:Morris_Cohen gptkb:Stanislav_Petrov gptkb:Adolf_Tolkachev gptkb:Alexander_Foote gptkb:Andrew_Daulton_Lee gptkb:Boris_Yuzhin gptkb:Christopher_Boyce gptkb:Gennady_Varenik gptkb:Leonid_Poleshchuk gptkb:Valery_Martynov gptkb:Vitaly_Yurchenko gptkb:William_Kampiles gptkb:Alexander_Litvinenko gptkb:Harry_Gold gptkb:Allan_Nunn_May gptkb:Lona_Cohen gptkb:Melita_Norwood gptkb:Robert_Hanssen gptkb:George_Blake gptkb:Ronald_Pelton gptkb:Aldrich_Ames gptkb:Oleg_Gordievsky gptkb:Oleg_Kalugin gptkb:Vasili_Mitrokhin gptkb:Vladimir_Sakharov gptkb:Vladimir_Vetrov gptkb:Theodore_Hall gptkb:Whittaker_Chambers gptkb:Arthur_Walker gptkb:Rudolf_Abel gptkb:Elizabeth_Bentley gptkb:Donald_Maclean gptkb:Anatoliy_Golitsyn gptkb:Bruno_Pontecorvo gptkb:Sergei_Skripal gptkb:Jerry_Whitworth gptkb:Michael_Walker gptkb:Dmitri_Polyakov gptkb:Oleg_Penkovsky gptkb:Richard_Sorge gptkb:Viktor_Suvorov gptkb:Stanislav_Levchenko gptkb:Vladimir_Rezun
gptkbp:notableDirector	gptkb:Pyotr_Ivashutin gptkb:Fedor_Kuznetsov gptkb:Mikhail_Milstein gptkb:Vasily_Zakharov gptkb:Pavel_Fitin
gptkbp:notableOperation	gptkb:Soviet_espionage_in_the_United_States gptkb:Soviet_espionage_in_the_United_Kingdom gptkb:Operation_Trust gptkb:Operation_RYAN
gptkbp:oversees	gptkb:Spetsnaz_GRU military counterintelligence military intelligence analysis military codebreaking military cryptography military deception operations military disinformation military intelligence gathering abroad
gptkbp:parentOrganization	gptkb:General_Staff_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_the_Soviet_Union
gptkbp:responsibleFor	espionage military intelligence signals intelligence special operations
gptkbp:rival	gptkb:KGB gptkb:First_Chief_Directorate gptkb:Second_Chief_Directorate
gptkbp:successor	gptkb:Main_Directorate_of_the_General_Staff_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_the_Russian_Federation
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Russian_military_intelligence_(GRU)
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6