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=== KUOS ===
As most of the training in the KGB academy concentrated on plainclothes operational work focused on espionage and counter-espionage, in 1955 the [[First Chief Directorate]] of the service established the Development Courses for  Officer Personnel ({{lang|ru|Курсы усовершенствования офицерского состава}} ({{lang|ru|КУОС}}), Latinized abbreviation KUOS) &ndash; a training cadre with the purpose of training general duty KGB officers in irregular warfare and combat tactics for clandestine operations overseas or as a stay-behind cadre and backbone for the formation of partisan units in case of a foreign invasion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kuos-vympel.ru/spravka/kuos/|title=Курсы усовершенствования офицерского состава (КУОС)|website=www.kuos-vympel.ru|date=31 May 2016 |language=ru|access-date=2017-12-05}}</ref> In 1966 these courses were taken out of the structure of the First Chief Directorate and co-located as an independent training center together with the training center of the [[Soviet Border Troops]] (the KGB's own military force) in [[Golitsyno, Moscow Oblast]]. The KUOS graduates had their [[baptism by fire]] during the [[Prague Spring]] in 1968. A year later the KUOS was absorbed into the KGB Academy (Higher Red Banner School of KGB of the USSR, {{lang|ru|ВКШ КГБ СССР}}) as part of the students' curriculum &ndash; initially a three-month course. In 1970 the KUOS relocated again to [[Balashikha]], the position of the director was promoted from a KGB [[Major (rank)|Major]]/Captain 2nd Rank to a KGB [[Polkovnik|Colonel]]/[[Captain 1st Rank]] and the duration of the training increased to seven months.