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“These are the guys you send in because you want to break stuff,” said Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russian security services. Here’s a look at the Russian military intelligence unit that has captured the attention of Western intelligence. Evolution of An Intelligence Unit The GRU whose official name is the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is not a new entity. It’s been around for decades, operating first in parallel with the KGB and then, after the Soviet breakup, with the KGB successor agencies: the Federal Security Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service.

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