Russia: CIO

Chief Intelligence Officer: Matt Kodama

The current Russian intelligence agency is known as the Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki (SRV); the Foreign Intelligence Service. The head of this department is Col. General Sergei Lebedev.

The SRV was created at the end of the Cold War after the fall of the former Soviet Union. The SRV replaced the KGB after it was dissolved in 1991. The KGB was founded in December of 1920 after the First World War.

Its specific aims were to provide the Russian Federation president, Federal Assembly, and Government with the intelligence information that they need to adopt decisions in the political, economic, defense, scientific-technical, and ecological spheres. The agency was tasked with promoting Russian Federation policy in the security sphere, to promoting the country's economic development and scientific and technical progress, and providing military-technical support for Russia's security.

During the Cold War, the KGB/SRV was heavily entrenched in espionage and other intelligence gathering tactics with the U.S. and other unfriendly countries. After the end of the Cold War, the SRV still conducts espionage in many nations across the world, keeping an eye and an ear on the world. All intelligence related missions are authorized by Col. Lebedev and President Vladimir Putin. The SVR continues to contact various intelligence and counterintelligence services of foreign states is one of the agency's fastest growing areas of activity. SVR economic intelligence activities includes the identification of both threats to Russian interests, as well as emerging opportunities such as advantageous market trends for particular types of commodities and raw materials.

The SRV is an efficient intelligence agency that works with the Kremlin and will not participate in a rebellion against Moscow. In the early 1990’s the Russian army working with the KGB/SRV crushed the Chechnya Rebellion, killing thousands.