Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/11

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Subject: [Leica] RUSSIAN KGB leica?"
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Tue Apr 11 23:09:20 2006
References: <75fde2b75ff51b.75ff51b75fde2b@shaw.ca> <75fde2b75ff51b.75ff51b75fde2b@shaw.ca> <3.0.2.32.20060411212400.02667378@pop.infionline.net>

Okhrana was an organisation of tsar times so maybe it does not qualify
as a forerunner of the NKVD/MGB/KGB - or maybe it does, the current one
is FSB.
All the best!
Raimo K
personal photography homepage at:
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho/


Quoting Marc James Small <msmall@infionline.net>:


<snip> Okhrana (the predecessor to the NKVD which Felix Edmundovich
Dzerzhinzki, for whom the FED camera is named...
the NKVD in turn leading to the KGB and the present agency whose
initialism
<snip> 
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@aya.yale.edu 
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
> 
> NEW FAX NUMBER:  +540-343-8505
> 
> 

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