Soviet double agents

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At the beginning of the fifties, the US intelligence service CIA, which initially coordinated its activities with the British MI-6, began to play an increasing role in intelligence operations against the USSR. At that time, the British positioned themselves as experts in activities on the territory of the USSR, having both infiltrated agents and information. They also shared general information about the USSR with the Americans. All of this information actually turns out to be Soviet counterintelligence disinformation.

Consequently, priorities in Soviet counterintelligence changed in 1951. Before that, the main direction of counteraction was the British and USSR MGB 2. In the structure of the main administration, according to the Slavic alphabet, part 2A was counterintelligence operations against England, part 2B - counterintelligence operations against the United States, and part 2V - counterintelligence operations against Latin American countries.

On the other hand, on December 25, 1951, a reorganization took place, in the course of which there was a change from letters to numbers. The United States became the main direction of counteraction. Therefore, in the 2nd Main Directorate of the MGB of the USSR, the 1st part was counter-intelligence operations against the USA, the 2nd part - counter-intelligence operations against England, the 3rd part - counter-intelligence operations against the VFR. This arrangement continued until the collapse of the USSR.

USSR intelligence had agents in both British and American intelligence who leaked information to USSR intelligence and worked against the West. They were part of much wider measures implemented by the Moscow "center", as a result of which specially prepared disinformation was "leaked" to the special services of Western countries. For these purposes, in the early 1950s, a fake forest brothers unit was even created in Latvia to demonstrate a "real national resistance movement" to British intelligence agents. Soviet counter-intelligence succeeded in fooling both the British and real national partisans, as well as the main opponent - the US CIA, which at that time directly started operations in Latvia

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