The Glavnoe Razvedyvatel'noe Upravlanie (GRU) or Chief Intelligence Directorate, was once the fourth department of the NKVD, was renaimed the GRU, in 1930(?), and given the task of handling all Military intelligence assignments. it operated residencies all over the world, along with the SIGNNIT (Signal intelligence) station, in Lorrdes,Cuba, and through out the former Soviet bloc countries, especially in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. During its history, the GRU was always a subordinite to the NKVD, its succesors (KGB, etc.), the GRU has at different times, made very spetaculiar recuits of forign agents, and was the first Soviet inteligence service, to exploit the lax security of western compinies, and begian to steal, S&T.(Science and technology) though this later became a domain controlled by KGB, under line x, later Directorate T. The GRU remains until this day a very important part of the Russian Federation's intelligence services, especially since it was never split up like the KGB was.
