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GRU

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GRU
abbrev
(Military) (formerly) the Soviet military intelligence service; the military counterpart of the KGB
[from Russian Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye Main Intelligence Directorate]
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The GRU was created in 1918 under Leon Trotsky, and is controlled by the military general staff.
Medvedev sacks Russia spy chief by Aljazeera.net
The intelligence service known in Russia by its acronym GRU is the country's largest spy agency.
Russia sacks military intelligence chief by AFP / AFP Global Edition
THE GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie or Chief Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff) was not a wing of the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security).
For the record by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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