#Ussr secret agency registration#

The Narkomat of Defense issued a directive creating mobile barrier forces composed of NKVD personnel to operate on roads, railways, forests, etc. Before the consolidation of NKGB was renamed back to NKVD, on June 27, 1941, in response to reports of unit disintegration in battle and desertion from the ranks in the Soviet Red Army, the 3rd NKO Directorate (military counterintelligence in Soviet Army) of the USSR. He did this by consolidating his power over USSR Secret Services. Joseph Stalin began to exert control over Red Army commanders by terror and repressions. Reorganization of Soviet Security Services In charge of the OO 14 Section, was Solomon Mogilevsky who later became head of the Foreign Department. Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, future OGPU chairman, Yakov Agranov then chief of Special Department 16th Section later first originating from the GUGB NKVD USSR, and 1st deputy to NKVD head Genrikh Yagoda. People such as the old Bolsheviks Mikhail Sergeevich Kedrov and Felix Dzerzhinsky at the time the VCheka chairman and also from March 30, 1919, from the NKVD RSFSR. In charge of VCheka and its successors ( GPU NKVD RSFSR/ OGPU CNK), the special department was very high ranking amongst leaders of Lenin's and Stalin's secret police.

running foreign and domestic human intelligence networks, mainly in areas occupied by White Army and Entente intervention forces.

counterintelligence and counter- espionage duties in those military and civilian institutions which are essential to the economy and military industry.

fighting against counter-revolution and sabotage in the ranks of the Red Army.

In the beginning, the Special Department was also responsible for:

The final name change came days later when the VCheka Military Division was renamed to VCheka Special Department or (OO), with the standard responsibilities as military and civilian secret police.

#Ussr secret agency registration#

By combining Military Sub-branch with the 1st Department (responsible for military counterintelligence) of the Registration Directorate or Riegistr upr (RU) by the Field Staff Revolutionary War Council (RWSR) and renamed to the 'Military Division'. On December 19, 1918, it was reformed again. The department existed only until July 6, when the fight against espionage was taken over by the newly formed Military Sub-Branch, headed by Janushevski. Created on January 12, 1918, they were responsible for combating internal and external espionage in military and civilian activity.įrom May 1918, the KRB was changed and acted as a Department for Fighting with Espionage in the framework of the Counter-Revolution and Sabotage Division within the VCheka, under the leadership of Yakov Blumkin.

Main article: Military counterintelligence of the Soviet ArmyĪt the beginning of the newly created VCheka, the responsibility for civilian and military counterintelligence fell on the Counterintelligence Bureau or KRB.