Posted by andreas from dtm2-t9-2.mcbone.net (62.104.210.101) on Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 4:41PM :
In Reply to: RussIntelNews: Iraq 03-03-22 posted by andreas from dtm2-t9-2.mcbone.net (62.104.210.101) on Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 4:27PM :
What is GRU?
The Main Intelligence Directorate (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye, or GRU) is the all-seeing eye of the Russian military. Everybody in the West knows about the KGB but the GRU has always been Russia’s primary and most capable intelligence agency with thousands of agents all over the world. This massive intelligence organization among other means of gathering intelligence is involved in all types of electronic reconnaissance operations, including communication intelligence (COMINT), electromagnetic intelligence (ELINT), radar intelligence (RADINT), television intelligence (TELINT) and infrared sets reconnaissance.
The GRU has full command of all intelligence-gathering assets of the Russian Armed Forces, including spy satellites, reconnaissance aircraft, ships, submarines and other equipment.
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