KGB TRAINING

I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you.

Hello, Natasha, er...Green Witch. Someone asking questions again?

<attaches silencer>

Yes Boris, I think he from CIA - please don't make mess on my new floor.

Re: KGB TRAINING


Wipe that smile off your face, sethm. You are about to die.

And you too! You're taking my statement completely out of context.
Prudish minds could think I am talking naughty.

Look Boris, Olga is here to help clean up the blood.

(but what the %&$^ is she talking about????)

Da da, Natascha Witchova, I bathe in blood.

Wanna go and see the Kremlin Groovin' Boys? I got tickets for November 11, 2015.

Boris, spilled the beans - he must die!!! (Signature line)

Da, I bring ice, Boris bring homemade vodka.

From the smell I would say he didn't spill the beans, but rather ate the beans.

I think sethm is really George Bush.

GB's usual intelligence sorces aren't very good so he's come to this series of tubes to find out what's what.

All you crazy Ruskies will soon learn that victory is just around the corner. Remember what happened to you in Afghanistan? Huh? We have a better series of tubes than you so HAH!

There isn't a kgb anymore; there's a new name for a similar agency, something like fgb...
just look up any of the thousands of articles about the Livchenko (sp?) death in London, and most of them will mention this agency.

Same old thugs; brand new name.

In the interests of actually answering this topic, try this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Alpha-Team-Training-Manual-Assassination/dp/0873647068

I began to answer this question working from memory. This seemingly simple question isn't really all that simple. To give some idea of training in the Russian/Soviet intelligence services covers a lot of ground. The roots of Russian intelligence can be traced at least back to the Czarist secret police of 19th century. The KGB is sort of like the FBI, Border Patrol, Federal prison administrations, CIA, NSA, and the Secret Service combined. A few paragraphs in it was clear to me that I needed to consult some reference material to insure that I hadn't mangled the Russian names of people and organizations. There are quite a few unclassified sources dealing with the KGB and its predecessors. However, being lazy all I did was google "KGB".

The following site should provide an excellent background briefing on the KGB, and I urge anyone interested to take the time to fully explore and read the material offered. Intelligence Briefings

Training within the KGB was/is dependent upon the individual's assignments and which Directorate they belonged to. For many years the Soviets maintained a site that duplicated an American town to the smallest details. Several Soviet illegal agents were trained there, after extensive language training. I'm not certain, but believe that the GRU also trained illegals there before deployment to the United States. Most Soviet agents were "legals", that is they served under diplomatic cover and were frequently uncovered by Western counter-intelligence.

At the risk of sounding dumb, is there still a KGB? I mean, since the collapse of the Soviet Union?

There is no organization called KGB any more. I've forgotten what the current security police is called. But the KGB itself was just a new name for the OGPU which, in turn, was a new name for the MVD which, in turn, was a new name for the NKVD, which, in turn . . .

The original name of the secret police, established under Lavrenti Berria, Josip Stalin's right-hand thug, was the Checka. And that's what most Soviet citizens would continue to call it, whether the official name was KGB or BVD or STP or LSD. Checka, plain and simple. For all I know, they still call the new outfit that. Or maybe not.

All right, already, I looked it up -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1953130,00.html

No idea, myself, where training occurs.

I believe the town you're referring to is Ilyushevya. It's somewhere in the Ukraine, but, not on any maps. Back in the '50s and '60s, Deep Cover agents were trained there. They were taught to act, think, and behave like Middle-Class Americans. I debriefed one agent, a female, near Langley, VA., in the early '70s. She was damned good - she acted more American than I did. As attractive as she was, she still suffered the same old habit that most Russians do. She only bathed below the waist once a week.