Editing First Chief Directorate (section)

{{Short description|Department of the Soviet KGB concerned with external intelligence}}[[Image:KGB Symbol.png|thumb|KGB symbol]]
The '''First Main Directorate''' ({{Lang-rus|Пе́рвое гла́вное управле́ние|r=Pérvoye glávnoye upravléniye|t='''First Chief Directive'''|p=ˈpʲervəjə ˈɡɫavnəjə ʊprɐˈvlʲenʲɪje}}) '''of the Committee for State Security under the USSR council of ministers''' ('''PGU KGB''') was the organization responsible for foreign operations and [[intelligence agency|intelligence]] activities by providing for the training and management of covert agents, intelligence collection administration, and the acquisition of foreign and domestic political, scientific and technical intelligence for the [[Soviet Union]]. 

The First Chief Directorate was formed within the [[KGB]] directorate in 1954, and after the [[collapse of the Soviet Union]] became the [[Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)|Foreign Intelligence Service]] ('''SVR RF'''). 

The primary foreign intelligence service in Russia and the Soviet Union has been the [[GRU (Soviet Union)|GRU]], a military intelligence organization and special operations force.