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Old 01-04-2013, 08:52 AM
John Farson John Farson is offline
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KGB

The KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security) employed over 500,000 border guards. It had very modern equipment and its personnel consisted of the most politically reliable men. During the war they were used in protecting the rear and guarding POW camps. The border guards were effectively a private political army, separate from the army. The KGB’s network of agents covered the whole of Northern Europe, and agents usually used Soviet embassies as their bases of operation.

This infamous organization has suffered very much in the Leningrad Military District. Its facilities were destroyed in the war and its last commander, A.V. Govorov, was killed when NATO dropped a 1 megaton nuclear bomb on Leningrad. Currently its leaders and network of agents are dispersed.

The KGB’s true strength in the Nordic countries at the moment is its three border guard brigades which have been placed on the Finnish border. With these it supervises traffic to the Kola Peninsula and observes Finland. The numbers and equipment of these border guards is in constant decline, however, and the effectiveness of these units cannot be regarded as particularly great.

Structure: Because of the war the KGB’s organization has been simplified a bit in the Nordic countries. The border guards are (reluctantly) under the command of the Red Army and the foreign network of agents now operates under the command of the KGB station in Turku. About a dozen agents roam the Nordic countries gathering information, posing usually as military personnel (medics, military policemen etc.). Baltic traders are often used as couriers, with some of them being members of the KGB and others doing it for money. The reports are submitted to Colonel Malenkov in Turku, who has steady communications with the KGB station near the ruins of Leningrad.

Leaders: Colonel Yuri Malenkov is the head of the station in Turku. He has no other officers and poses as Jussi Mäkinen, a shop owner in Turku.
The KGB’s Moscow station intends to officially appoint a new leader to the Nordic countries. His task is to rebuild the KGB’s network of operatives and also return all Soviet units under the supervision of the KGB. He/she should be appointed during 2001.

Last edited by John Farson; 01-04-2013 at 05:27 PM.
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