Academy of Foreign Intelligence

Academy of Foreign Intelligence
Академия внешней разведки имени Ю. В. Андропова (АВР)
TypeAcademy
Established1938
Location
Moscow Oblast
,
Russia

55°54′33.34″N 37°38′43.18″E / 55.9092611°N 37.6453278°E / 55.9092611; 37.6453278
LanguageRussian
Websiteknutkt.com.ua

The Academy of Foreign Intelligence (alternatively known as the SVR Academy,[1] previously known as the Yuri Andropov Red Banner Institute and the Red Banner Institute)[2] is one of the primary espionage academies of Russia, and previously the Soviet Union, serving the KGB and its successor organization, the Foreign Intelligence Service. It was attended by future President Vladimir Putin during the 1980s.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Weiss, Michael (December 27, 2017). "Revealed: The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies". The Daily Beast. Retrieved January 2, 2018. The foreign arm is today known as the SVR, which is the actual successor of the First Chief Directorate; the Andropov Red Banner Institute, in fact, is now called the SVR Academy.
  2. ^ Martin Ebon (1994). KGB: Death and Rebirth. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 185. ISBN 978-0-275-94633-3. More specialized espionage instructions were provided by the Red Banner Institute, renamed in memory of former KGB chief Yuri Andropov and usually simply called the Andropov Institute.
  3. ^ Chris Hutchins (2012). Putin. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-78088-114-0. But these were the honeymoon days and she was already expecting their first child when he was sent to Moscow for further training at the Yuri Andropov Red Banner Institute in September 1984 [...] At Red Banner students were given a nom de guerre beginning with the same letter as their surname. Thus Comrade Putin became Comrade Platov.
  4. ^ Andrew Jack (15 December 2005). Inside Putin's Russia: Can There Be Reform without Democracy?. Oxford University Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-19-029336-9. He returned to work in Leningrad's First Department for intelligence for four and a half years, and then attended the elite Andropov Red Banner Institute for intelligence training before his posting to the German Democratic Republic in 1985.
  5. ^ Vladimir Putin; Nataliya Gevorkyan; Natalya Timakova; Andrei Kolesnikov (5 May 2000). First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President Vladimir Putin. PublicAffairs. pp. 53. ISBN 978-0-7867-2327-0. I worked there for about four and a half years, and then I went to Moscow for training at the Andropov Red Banner Institute, which is now the Academy of Foreign Intelligence.