Editing First Chief Directorate (section)

==Heads of Intelligence==
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!INO/INU/FCD Head
!Service
!1920–1991
|-
|[[Yakov Davydov]]
|foreign department of Cheka
|1920–1921
|-
|[[Solomon Mogilevsky]]
|foreign department of Cheka
|1921–?
|-
|[[Mikhail Trilisser]]
|foreign department of GPU/OGPU
|1921–1930
|-
|[[Artur Artuzov]]
|foreign department of OGPU/GUGB-NKVD
|1930–1936
|-
|[[Abram Slutsky]]
|7th Department of GUGB-NKVD
|1936–1938
|-
|[[Zelman Passov]]
|5th Department of NKVD 1st Directorate (UGB)
|June–September 1938
|-
|acting [[Sergey Spigelglas]]
|5th Department of GUGB-NKVD
|1938 – 6 November 1938
|-
|[[Pavel Sudoplatov]]
|5th Department of GUGB-NKVD
|6–28? November 1938
|-
|[[Vladimir Dekanozov]]
|5th Department of GUGB-NKVD
|28 November 1938 – 1939
|-
|[[Pavel Fitin]]
|5th Department of GUGB-NKVD/ 1st Directorate of NKVD/NKGB/MGB
|1939–1946
|-
|[[Pyotr Kubatkin]]
|1st Directorate of MGB
|1946
|-
|[[Pyotr Fedotov]]
|1st Directorate of MGB/Committee of Information
|1946–1949
|-
|[[Sergey Savchenko (general)|Sergey Savchenko]]
|Committee of Information
|1949–1951
|-
|[[Yevgeny Pitovranov]]
|1st Chief Directorate of MGB
|1952–1953
|-
|[[Vasili Ryasnoy]]
|2nd Chief Directorate of the MVD
|1953
|-
|[[Alexander Panyushkin]]
|2nd Chief Directorate of the MVD/1st Chief Directorate of KGB
|1953–1955
|-
|[[Aleksandr Sakharovsky]]
|1st Chief Directorate of KGB
|1956–1971
|-
|[[Fyodor Mortin]]
|1st Chief Directorate of KGB
|1971–1974
|-
|[[Vladimir Kryuchkov]]
|1st Chief Directorate of KGB
|1974–1988
|-
|[[Leonid Shebarshin]]
|1st Chief Directorate of KGB
|1988–1991
|}