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Also Known As GU • Glavnoye Upravlenie • Main Intelligence Directorate • Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie • Main Directorate
Date 1942 - present
Headquarters Moscow
Areas Of Involvement intelligence • cybercrime
Related People Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky

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