SVR

The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics (Russian: Слу́жба вне́шней разве́дки, tr. Sluzhba vneshney razvedki) or SVR SSSR (Russian: СВР СССР) is the USSR's external intelligence agency, mainly for civilian affairs. The military affairs espionage counterpart is GRU. The SVR SSSR is the successor of all Post-Soviet external intelligence agencies, which are, in turn, successors of the First Chief Directorate (PGU) of the KGB. The headquarters of the SVR, instead of the main building of the former Russian SVR in the Yasenevo District of Moscow, are shared with the VSB in Lubyanka Square, Moscow's centre, in the main building of the former FSB and KGB.

Unlike the All-Union Security Service (VSB), the SVR is responsible for intelligence and espionage activities outside the Soviet Union. It works in cooperation with the Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye (GRU, Main Intelligence Directorate). The SVR is also authorized to negotiate anti-terrorist cooperation and intelligence-sharing arrangements with foreign intelligence agencies, and provides analysis and dissemination of intelligence to the Soviet president.