The New Nobility of the KGB (44 page)
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Authors: Andrei Soldatov
Tags: #History, #Europe, #Russia & the Former Soviet Union, #Political Science, #General, #International Relations, #Security (National & International), #Intelligence & Espionage, #World, #Russian & Former Soviet Union, #Social Science, #Social Classes
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Pirozhkov was in charge of the KGB antiterrorist group Alpha (the Russian version of the U.S. Delta Force), and he persuaded Yuri Andropov to ask Fidel Castro to send some instructors to the KGB.
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The order was signed by the general public prosecutor and by all the leadership in the operations staff from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and from the FSB.
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The first attack carried out by female suicide bombers in Chechnya took place on June 7, 2000, when Khava Barayeva and Luiza Magomadova blew themselves up in a truck near the military base in the village of Alkhan-Yourt. Wafa Idris, the first Palestinian female suicide bomber, detonated a bomb in Jerusalem on January 27, 2002.
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Project Grey Goose is an open source intelligence initiative launched by a group of experts and academics in the fields of Internet security and cyberwar on August 22, 2008, to examine how the Russian cyberwar was conducted against Georgian Web sites.
Copyright © 2010 by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Soldatov, Andrei.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-1-586-48923-6
1. Federal-naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossii. 2. Intelligence service—Russia (Federation) 3. Internal security—Russia (Federation) 4. National security—Russia (Federation) 5. Federal-naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossii—Officials and employees. 6. Social classes—Russia (Federation) 7. Russia (Federation)—Politics and government. 8. Political culture—Russia (Federation) I. Borogan, I. (Irina) II. Title.
JN6529.I6S.28’30947—dc22
2010013623
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