Russia's Clandestine War Against the United States:The Resurrection of the KGB and Russian Organized Crime Post 9/11
Date of Award
11-23-2011
Document Type
Undergraduate Capstone Project
Degree Name
Master of Liberal Studies
Organizational Unit
University College, Global Community Engagement
Disciplines
Global Affairs
First Advisor
Heather Booth
Keywords
FSB, Russia, Organized crime, United States, National security, Post 9/11
Abstract
As American leadership has narrowly focused on fighting global terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, the modern version of the KGB, now known as the FSB, has been conducting continuous clandestine warfare operations against the United States. These warfare operations include strategic economic and political partnerships with anti-American entities worldwide and direct embedding of double agents in the US intelligence community. This paper investigates the role of Russia's cultural history leading to the merger of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and Russian Organized Crime (ROC). This paper concludes that the FSB is the most pervasive security threat to the United States and that employing Russian native and heritage speakers of Russian in the US intelligence community compromises US national security.
Publication Statement
Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.
Recommended Citation
Alred, Lance P., "Russia's Clandestine War Against the United States:The Resurrection of the KGB and Russian Organized Crime Post 9/11" (2011). University College: Global Community Engagement Capstones. 14.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/ucol_gs/14