FBI/KGB "counter-terrorism" pact.On Independence Day 1994, then-FBI Director Louis Freeh visited Moscow to sign a cooperation accord with Russian Interior Minister Viktor Yerin and Sergei Stepashin, chief of Russia's Federal Counterintelligence coun·ter·in·tel·li·gence n. The branch of an intelligence service charged with keeping sensitive information from an enemy, deceiving that enemy, preventing subversion and sabotage, and collecting political and military information. Service (a successor organization to the KGB KGB: see secret police. KGB Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (“Committee for State Security”) Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. ). "We can honestly say that our two nations have more in common than ever before," enthused Freeh. "We are united in purpose and in spirit." "Together, we're invincible," exulted Stepashin. (See "Crime Fighters Converge" in our August 22, 1994 issue.) The 1994 FBI-KGB accord allowed the FBI to establish an attache ATTACHE. Connected with, attached to. This word is used to signify those persons who are attached to a foreign legation. An attache is a public minister within the meaning of the Act of April 30, 1790, s. 37, 1 Story's L. U. S. office in Moscow and Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB (FrontSide Bus) See system bus. FSB - front side bus , another KGB successor organization) to send agents to train at the FBI's academy in Quantico, Virginia. During an early December visit to Moscow, current FBI Director Robert Mueller has built on that agreement by signing a "counter-terrorism" pact with the FSB. "FSB director Nikolai Patrushev met with FBI head Robert Mueller, who was on a visit to Moscow, to sign the deal, which draws out plans for cooperation between the two security bodies," reported the December 6 Moscow News. "A memorandum has been signed that will lay out the specifics of our cooperation in a number of directions, first and foremost ... the fight against international terrorism, the fight against crimes using weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or , and other directions," explained Patrushev. |
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