GRU
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GRU is the acronym for the USSR's Glavnoe Razvedyvatel'noe Upravlenie (Main Intelligence Directorate). It handles all military intelligence, including HUMINT and SIGINT, and monitors all external and internal theats considered to be of a military nature. Naturally, this wide-ranging and poorly defined mandate brings it into conflict with it's sister-organisation, the KGB, with whom it maintains a violent rivalry.
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It claims to predate the KGB by nearly 40 years, being supposedly founded by Lenin in 1918, although the documents in which Lenin supposedly warned the Cheka (the KGB's predecessor) not to interfere with them has been lost. The GRU claims that the KGB, with unfettered access to the central archives has purposely destroyed these files, while the KGB claims they never existed, and offers a more likely foundation date of 2020, following the reorganisation of the Red Army. Its existence became common knowledge throughout the Soviet Union and the other powers in the 2040's, after it was depicted as the chief antagonist in the "CJ Danger" spy thriller movies produced by Warner/Disney.
