GRU

The Glavnoe Razvedyvatel'noe Upravlanie (GRU) or Chief Intelligence Directorate, was once the fourth department of the NKVD, was renamed the GRU, in 1930(?), and given the task of handling all Military intelligence assignments. It operated residencies all over the world, along with the SIGNNIT (Signal intelligence) station, in Lorrdes, Cuba, and throughout the former Soviet bloc countries, especially in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. During its history, the GRU was always a subordinate to the NKVD, its successors (KGB, etc.), the GRU has at different times, made very spectacular recruits of foreign agents, and was the first Soviet intelligence service, to exploit the lax security of western companies, and began to steal S&T (Science and technology) though this later became a domain controlled by KGB, under line x, later Directorate T. The GRU remains until this day a very important part of the Russian Federation's intelligence services, especially since it was never split up like the KGB was.