KGB - KGB The KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, or The Committee for State Security) was the name of the main Soviet external security and intelligence agency, as well as the main secret police agency from March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991. The KGB's domain was roughly that of the American CIA and the counterintelligence division of the FBI. In March of 1953, Lavrenty Beria united the MVD and MGB into one body, the MVD. Within a year, Beria was executed and the MVD was split up. The reformed MVD retained its internal security functions while the new KGB took on external security functions. The KGB was subordinated to the Council of Ministers. On July 5, 1978 the KGB was renamed the "KGB of the USSR" with the.
KHAD - police, also known as the State Information Agency. Set up in 1980, and controlled by the KGB, this was a brutal agency specifically created for the suppression of Afghanistan Marxist regime's internal opponents. It was initially headed by Mohammad Najibullah, until he became President of Afghanistan in 1986..
VENONA project - text was entered into encrypting devices (and analyzing the keystrokes by listening to them being punched in), contributed to achieving as much plaintext as was recovered. These claims are less than fully supported in the open literature. This decryption and cryptanalysis project became known to the Soviets not long after the first breaks. It is not clear whether the Soviets knew how much of the message traffic, or which messages, had been successfully decrypted. At least one Soviet agent, Kim Philby, was told about the project as part of his job as liaison between British and US intelligence. The project continued for decades, long after Philby left British intelligence. The decrypted messages from Soviet aid missions, GRU spies, KGB spies, and some diplomatic traffic, known collectively as the VENONA papers, gave.
John F. Kennedy assassination - was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States aboard Air Force One. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The Assassination 1.1 A nation mourns 2 List of Witnesses to the Assassination 3 Investigations into the assassination 4 Security failures 5 The Zapruder Film 6 Conspiracy Theories 7 KGB disinformation 8 BBC 'Correspondent' programme in 2003 9 External Links The Assassination At 11:40 AM (U.S. Central standard time), President Kennedy, his wife Jacqueline, and the rest of the presidential entourage arrived at Love Field, then Dallas' only airport, in Air Force One. The original itinerary was for the president to proceed in a motorcade from Love Field through downtown Dallas, to the Trade Mart. The president was expected there for a luncheon at 12:30 PM. Accompanying President Kennedy in the.
John Cairncross - after MI5 found incriminating papers in his possession. He was never prosecuted, however, which later led to charges that the government engaged in a conspiracy to cover up his role. Indeed, the identity of the infamous "fifth man" in the Cambridge Five remained a mystery until 1990, when a KGB defector named Oleg Gordievsky fingered Cairncross. This is a stub article. Someone should add more information about Cairncross's motivations, his apologists, and the books that have been published about him (and by him, posthumously)..
Junie Morosi - associates. It was also soon alleged that Ditchburn was using Morosi's position to further his business interests. Cairns's friends urged him to end the Morosi appointment, but out of both personal loyalty and a refusal to be bullied by the anti-Labor tabloid press, he refused. He said that there would have been no media outcry "if I had appointed a man, or even a woman who was not good-looking." He and others pointed out that Elizabeth Reid, who had been appointed Whitlam's advisor on women's issues in 1973, had received the same sort of media attention. But after a few days Morosi took the initiative and resigned, pending an investigation into the business affairs of herself and Ditchburn. When at the end of December the investigation found no irregularities, Cairns promptly.
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - other groups. The group did not perform its first terrorist acts until early in 1982, with a failed attack on a nuclear power station. When two of the group, including Magdalena Kopp, wife of Sánchez, were arrested in Paris the group set off a number of bombs in retaliation against French targets. Operations in 1983 included attacks on the "Maison de France" in Berlin in August and two bombs on TGV services in December. These attacks led to pressure on European states that tolerated Sánchez. He was expelled from Hungary in late 1985 and was refused aid in Iraq, Libya and Cuba before he found limited support in Syria. He settled in Damascus with Kopp. The Syrian government forced Sánchez to remain inactive and he was soon no longer seen as.
Viktor Karpukhin - in 1947 in the Ukrainian city of Lutsk. He joined the KGB's crack Alpha unit in 1979 and worked his way up to commander. On December 23, 1979, Karpukhin led 38 soldiers of the "Alfa" anti-terrorist group, who along with 500 Soviet paratroopers, landed at Begram airport, next to Kabul, Afghanistan. Two days later, 40,000 Red Army soldiers poured over the Afghan border. Stationed in the Soviet embassy in Kabul, which was in close range of president Hafizullah Amin's palace, Karpukhin's forces awaited further instuctions. On December 27, Karpukhin was ordered to take the presidential palace. In the ambush, two Soviet soldiers were killed, and Amin was shot to death. The following day, prime minister Babrak Karmal, took Amin's seat as president. Karmal was handpicked by Moscow. Karpukhin was awarded the.
Internal security in Moldova - Berets") were put at 900. The scope and quality of Moldova's state security apparatus were difficult to determine. Like the armed forces, local assets of the former Moldavian KGB were transferred to the new government along with those personnel who wished to enter the service of the new government. These elements now function under the republic's control as the Ministry of National Security..
Hangover - also have an effect. The amount of flavour compounds in the drink will increase the hangover, so a dark beer, or stout, such as Guinness will produce a worse hangover than drinking the equivalent amount of alcohol diluted in water (basically Vodka). The Cures Common folk medicine has a wide variety of hangover cures. Indeed there appear to be nearly as many ways of curing hangovers as there are of getting drunk in the first place. Almost all of these hangover cures have one major thing in common, which is that they are nowhere near as effective at curing a hangover as alcoholic drinks are at getting you drunk. As of 2003, the latest fad hangover cure is a Russian pill, sold in Russia as Antipokhmelin (Anti-Hangover), and marketed as RU-21.
Hagbard - He was heavily influenced by the Illuminatus trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. He was involved in selling hacked information from US military computers to the KGB. He was addicted to cocaine and got extremely paranoid and convinced he was fighting the Illuminati like Hagbard Celine in the fictitious book. A movie has been made about his life which is called "23". It has been critized a lot by real life witnesses. More interesting is the documentation written by his friends (see [1]).
Vladimir Putin - years in Germany. He was head of the FSB (the KGB's successor) from July 1998 to August 1999. He was prime minister in Boris Yeltsin's government from August 1999. As Prime Minster he won great acclaim from the Russian people for managing the reinvasion of Chechnya. On December 31, 1999, Yeltsin resigned, and made Putin the second (acting) President of the Russian Federation. Proper Presidential elections were held on March 26, 2000, which Putin won. Unlike his predecessor, President Putin has been less enthusiastic about erasing Russia's Soviet past from memory. He has stated his belief that whatever the crimes of the Communist regime, it was neverless an important part of Russian history, and an important influence on the creation of modern Russian society. As a result, some Soviet era symbols.
Heydar Aliyev - into a working-class family in the Azerbaijani province of Nakhçhivan. Educated in the Azerbaijan State University in Baku, he graduated with a degree in history and joined the Azerbaijani Committee of State Security (the KGB) in 1944. He worked his way up through the ranks, becoming its deputy chairman in 1964 and chairman in 1967. Two years later, in 1969, Leonid Breznev's administration appointed Aliyev to the post of First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijani Communist Party. He also became a candidate (non-voting) member of the Soviet Politburo in 1976. He occupied this position until December 1982 when Yuri Andropov promoted him to the post of first Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union. Aliyev thus became the first Muslim full member of the Politburo and was given.
Henry Pym - the size of an insect. He then restored himself. He then constructed a cyber-helmet, that would let him communicate and control insects. He designed a costume and gave himself the superhero name Ant-Man. On his first outing as Ant-Man, he defeated some KGB agents that were trying to steal some anti-radiation gas that Pym had made. He started a career as Ant-Man and fought many villains. Pym was contacted by Vernon Van Dyne. He was asked to help Van Dyne in contacting aliens. He refused, but became attracted to Vernon's daughter, Janet Van Dyne. Vernon Van Dyne was later slain by an alien outlaw. Janet asked for Hank's help to avenge his death. Pym then revealed his secret identity to her. Hank used some Pym particles on her and grafted wasp.
HUMINT - a subject of investigation, or by using a combination of 'black' techniques to gain confessions or involuntary disclosure of information. The KGB considered the following as standard practice, and even defined the MICE acronym to help Soviet agents remember the "tricks of the trade": Money - Buy the agent Ideology - Turn dislike of his own country's system to your advantage Compromise - Trick the target into a compromising situation Ego - Appeal to the target who feels they deserve better treatment than they are getting, and/or make them feel more important in their own eyes Many intelligence types refer to the HUMINT task in terms of phrases like "Having feet on the ground" or "Having a source on the ground". This refers to the need for hard HUMINT data to.
Hugh Gaitskell - attempts to commit Labour to a unilateralist position on nuclear weapons - losing the vote one year and then declaring he would "fight, fight and fight again to save the party I love". Battles inside the party produced the Campaign for Democratic Socialism to defend the Gaitskellite position in the early 1960s. Many of the younger CDS members were founder members of the SDP in 1981. Though Gaitskell alienated many of his supporters by his opposition to British membership of the European Economic Community which in 1962 he declared to be the "end of a thousand years of island history". He died after a sudden, short illness in 1963, and left an opening for Harold Wilson. The abrupt and unexpected nature of his death led to speculation that foul play was.
Ultimates - an inch tall and grow wings like a real wasp. Janet may soon leave the team owing to her being assulted by her husband in issue 6 and nearly bitten to death by ants!!! Her husband has a history of abuse and a divorce is likly in the offering. Captain America is attracted to her though she does not seen to reciprotate it. Hank Pym (Giant Man). Husband of Janet (For now), Hank recently gained the ability to grow sixty foot tall. Some suspect he won't be long in the Ultimates since he assulted he wife and then got his butt kicked by Captain America. Bruce Banner (The Hulk) Coming soon Natasha Romanova (The Black Widow) Enhanced former KGB agent, the widow has defected to shield covert ops and is helping.
Umbrella Man - friend were never explored by the Warren Commission, however many other analysts have their own theories. The most popular theory is that the Umbrella man was making a signal, either to Lee Harvey Oswald or another shooter. Another, more complicated theory is that the Umbrella man was using his umbrella as a visual metaphor to the president, as an explanation of why he was being shot. According to this theory, Umbrella man (or his friend) was a Cuban exile, and the umbrella represents the lack of "umbrella" support (ie: air support) the president gave to Cuban exiles during the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. A third theory is that the umbrella was actually a poision-dart shooter. Such tools had been developed and used by both the CIA and the KGB. A.
Georgi Markov - 11, 1978) was a Bulgarian dissident who was assassinated in London by agents of the KGB. On September 7, 1978 he walked across Waterloo Bridge, which crosses the River Thames, and was waiting at a bus stop on the other side, when he was jabbed in the leg by a man holding an umbrella. The man apologised and walked away. Markov would later tell doctors that the man had spoken in a foreign accent. Markov remembered feeling a stinging pain from where he had been hit by the umbrella tip, and when he arrived at work at the BBC World Service offices he noticed a small red pimple had formed and the pain from being jabbed had not gone away. By the evening he fell ill, and died three days later..
United States Coast Guard - master and was court-martialed several times, but was restored to rank again and again. During the Snake River gold rush of 1900, the Revenue Cutter Service returned destitute miners to Seattle from Alaska. "You Have to Go Out, But You Don't Have to Come Back" This has always been the unofficial motto of the Coast Guard and is based on the 1899 regulations of the Life Saving Service, which stated: "In attempting a rescue the keeper will select either the boat, breeches buoy, or life car, as in his judgement is best suited to effectively cope with the existing conditions. If the device first selected fails after such trial as satisfies him that no further attempt with it is feasible, he will resort to one of the others, and if that.
