Is The KGB Still Spying On The U.S.A.

@Insomniac100 shhh. Listen more.

@BlueMetalChick lolz

@BlueMetalChick are you Russian?

@lonelylonelyer No but I've lived in Russia and I speak the language.

Google is good anyway :p But yeah, to be exact, GRU became G.U. in 2010, but as far as I know most everybody still informally calls it GRU, at least outside of Russia G.U. just doesn't make sense.

A little bit of trivia, KGB was split up after the failed coup-attempt that led to the breaking up of Soviet Union (followed that one as it happened), and the foreign intelligence branch became known as SVR. So the technical answer as successor to KGB's international spying could be SVR, however KGB/SVR lost prominence after the failed coup attempt.

I wonder if they haven't got something new and more secret now, but GRU has been primarily blamed for foreign plots all the way to this year. (Ongoing electoral interference in US, neurotoxins in UK, contingency plans in Finland, deep hacks in Netherlands)

@Picklebobble2 dancing bear

@Allelse The GU. I'll spare you the full acronym.

@IstillmissEP Wow, you're actually right about something for once. Christ.

@IstillmissEP The Soviets aren't a thing. That stopped happening in the 90's. It's just Russia now.