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Federal Security Service

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Noun1.Federal Security Service - the internal counterintelligence agency of the Russian Federation and successor to the Soviet KGB; formerly led by Vladimir Putin
Federal Security Bureau, FSB
Russian agency - an administrative agency of the Russian government


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According to Litvinenko, as reported in the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, on July 17, "Ayman al-Zawahiri trained at a Federal Security Service (FSB, former KGB) base in Dagestan in 1998.
Defector: Putin's KGB trained top al-Qaeda terrorists by The New American
And while the legacy of the Cold War has constrained cooperation between the two countries' intelligence services, there have been some notable counter-terrorism successes, such as the joint operation between the FBI and its Russian counterpart, the Federal Security Service (FSB), that flushed out terrorists seeking to acquire surface-to-air missiles to use against civilian airliners in U.
Rejecting Russia? by Simes, Dimitri K. / The National Interest
Now under the Russian Federal Security Service, Alfa is better known because of its involvement in post-Soviet internal counterterrorist actions, hostage-rescue, and in the serial conflicts in Chechnya.
Russia beefs up special-warfare units by Turbiville, Graham H., Jr. / Special Warfare
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