Editing First Chief Directorate (section)

==First Chief Directorate organization==
According to published sources, the KGB included the following directorates and departments in 1980s: <ref>{{cite book|title=KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev|last=Gordievsky|first=Oleg|isbn=9780060921095|date=1991|publisher=HarperPerennial |url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/kgbinsidestoryof00chri}}</ref><br/>

* Directorate R: Planning and Analyses
* Directorate S: Illegals
* Directorate T: Scientific and Technical Intelligence
* Directorate K: Counter-Intelligence
* Directorate OT: Operational and Technical Support
* Directorate I: Computers
* Service A: Active Measures
* Directorate RT: Operations in USSR

* First Department: North America
* Second Department: Latin America
* Third Department: United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Malta
* Fourth Department: East Germany, Austria, West Germany
* Fifth Department: France, Spain, Portugal, Benelux, Switzerland, Greece, Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania
* Sixth Department: China, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea
* Seventh Department: Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines
* Eight Department: non-Arab Near Eastern countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Israel
* Ninth Department: English-speaking Africa
* Tenth Department: French-speaking Africa
* Eleventh Department: liaison with [[Eastern bloc|Socialist states]]
* Fifteenth Department: registry and archives
* Sixteenth Department: signals intelligence and code-breaking
* Seventeenth Department: India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma
* Eighteenth Department: Arab Near Eastern Countries and Egypt
* Nineteenth Department: Soviet Union Emigres
* Twentieth Department: liaison with [[Third World]] states