According to the report, a State Security Ministry (or MGB) would be created from what is currently known as the Federal Security Service (FSB). It would also incorporate the foreign intelligence service (SVR) and the state guard service (FSO).
However, anyone who has been paying attention to Russia’s internal and external struggles may not be surprised by Putin’s plans to expand the current FSB. According to the Guardian, the FSB has already been expanded under his leadership:
“With Putin as PM and then president, much of the FSB’s power was restored. Many of his former KGB colleagues ended up in senior positions in government or at the helm of state-controlled companies. Lower down the chain of command, a blind eye was turned to FSB generals enriching themselves: it was no longer necessary to leave to earn a good living. One top officer complained that the secret service “warriors” had become ‘traders.’”
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It would make sense that the expansion would continue under Putin, particularly now that his stranglehold over Russia continues to grow at an alarming pace. Putin’s party (the United Russia Party) now holds three-quarters of the 450 Duma seats (the Duma is the lower house of Russia’s Parliament) – its largest ever majority.
The MGB’s expansion will include overseeing the prosecution of Kremlin critics, much as its Cold War predecessor did.
The revival of the KGB should come as bad news to the U.S. establishment considering the organization was suspected of having operatives across the globe who were capable of wielding great influence.Even former British Prime Minister David Cameron remarked that the KGB tried to recruit him as a student.
In 2009, Forbes released an article reporting Ted Kennedy had actually reached out to the KGB in the 1980s through a memorandum composed by Victor Chebrikov — the top man at the KGB at the time — and addressed to Yuri Andropov, the most prominent political figure in the USSR then. According to Forbes:
“Kennedy’s message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. ‘The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations,’ the memorandum stated. “These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.””
Donald Trump’s proposal to build a working relationship with Russia — as opposed to Clinton and Obama’s proposed continued policies of attempting to isolate Russia — may not be such a bad idea after all.
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