FSB

FSB   (Intelligence agency)
Abbreviation	FSB
Predecessor	KGB
Formation	12 April, 1995
Parent organization	Russia

FSB are the initial letters of the Russian words Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti - Federal Security Service - the country's secret police.

Known as the KGB during the days of the Soviet Union, the secret service was dismantled in 1991 and its successor FSK (Federalnaya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki or Federal Counterintelligence Service) was reorganised into the FSB in 1995.

 

Events carried out

Event	Location	Description
9-99/Ryazan incident	Russia 9-99/Ryazan incident	Moscow FSB officers discovered wiring up what looked like a bomb in the basement of a building by night. Local FSB unaware. Claimed to be a terror drill but no documentation was presented. Instead documents were sealed and discussion of it prohibited in the Duma.
Russian apartment bombings	Russia	A 'Russian 9/11' which boosted support for the second war that was launched in Chechnya

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Vladimir Putin	Director of the Federal Security Service	25 July 1998	9 August 1999	Note that the 9/99 bombings were carried out in September 1999

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