The KGB is alive and well in Bush's America

[Neecy]

It's interested reading the similarities between the old Soviet KGB and the 'security apparatus' assembled by Bush consisting of the Department of Homeland Security, the NSA and our friends at the Pentagon.

Directorates

The KGB was organized into directorates. Some were:

The First Chief Directorate (Foreign Operations)--responsible for foreign operations and intelligence-gathering.

The Second Chief Directorate--responsible for internal political control of citizens and foreigners in the Soviet Union.

The Third Chief Directorate (Armed Forces)--controlled military counter-intelligence and the political surveillance of the Soviet armed forces.

The Fifth Chief Directorate--also responsible for internal security; originally combatted political dissent; later assumed tasks of the Second Chief Directorate, such as controlling religious dissent, monitoring artists, and publications censorship.

The Seventh Directorate (Surveillance)--handled surveillance, providing equipment to follow and monitor activities of both foreigners and Soviet citizens.

The Eighth Chief Directorate--responsible for communications, monitoring foreign communications and the cryptological systems used by KGB divisions, KGB transmissions to overseas stations, and the development of communications technology.

The Ninth Directorate (Guards)--40,000-man uniformed guard force providing bodyguard services to: the principal CPSU leaders (and families), major Soviet government facilities (including nuclear weapons stocks). It operated the Moscow VIP subway system, and the secure government telephone system linking high-level government and CPSU officers; it became the Federal Protective Service (FPS) under Boris Yeltsin.

The Sixteenth Chief Directorate (State Communications)--upgraded from Department to Directorate, operated the Soviet Union's government telephone and telegraph systems.

The Border Guards Directorate--245,000-man border security force combatted smuggling along the Soviet Union's borders with terrestrial, naval, and air force contingents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB

[William769]

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