Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That is exactly what I meant. Like any other big country, Russia needs/wants an intelligence service. Nathan - --- Simon Stevens <simon@camera-craftsman.com> wrote: > Let's not also forget that not all of the KGB was > involved with > repression. I don't know what percentage was > involved in what but a lot > of KGB officers were just intelligence operatives > who did essentially > the same thing as any other country's intelligence > agency - ran spies > and analysed information for policymakers. By all > accounts the KGB was > extrememly professional and successful in this and I > imagine quite a lot > of these people are still working for the RVS > (which, if memory serves, > is the agency which succeeded the KGB). > > Simon Stevens > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/