Foreign Intelligence Service

Just days before the 10 agents were arrested in the U.S., Mr. Poteyev feigned illness and ducked out of a meeting in Moscow at Foreign Intelligence Service headquarters.

Russia Convicts Former Spy Official for Exposing Agents in U.S. Ring Gregory L. White 2011

A colonel in the Foreign Intelligence Service and deputy head of the department handling deep-cover agents, he fed his American handlers sensitive information about the identities of Russian spies in North and South America.

Russia Convicts Former Spy Official for Exposing Agents in U.S. Ring Gregory L. White 2011

"The Foreign Intelligence Service is so enraged that it keeps torpedoing all and any work with the Americans, even including ABM projects," a senior Russian diplomat was quoted as saying.

Report: Russia spy agency in turmoil over defector Jeff Stein 2010

Yulia Latynina, a prominent liberal journalist, thinks that the corruption that has permeated all pores of Russian society has not stopped at the door of the Foreign Intelligence Service.

Russian spies: the plot thickens Irina Filatova 2010

And the Foreign Intelligence Service is supposed to be even more attentive to matters like that.

Report: Russia spy agency in turmoil over defector Jeff Stein 2010

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service refused to comment on the arrests of its alleged agents.

Oleg Gordievsky: May Be 50 Undercover Russian Couples In US 2010

"I can't say on TV that the [Foreign Intelligence Service] is rotten down to the roots," said Mikhail Leontiev, host of a weekly show on the main state channel, noting that he did raise that issue in his magazine, Odnako, which has a much smaller audience.

Where Spies Go Undercovered 2010

Skripal is a former colonel in the Russian military intelligence, and Zaporozhsky is a former colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

Russian Spy Suspects Plead Guilty As Part Of Swap 2010

The main Russian spy agency, the Foreign Intelligence Service, known by its Russian acronym SVR, refused to comment on the arrests.

Russia Slams US 'Spy' Arrests As Cold War Throwback (PHOTOS) 2010

Panetta had already developed a sound relationship with Mikhail Fradkov, head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, that allowed them to quickly clinch the deal, which traded the 10 Russian sleeper agents for the four prisoners in Russia.

US Began Deliberating Spy Swap Weeks Before Arrests 2010