The Sixteenth Directorate - KGB (Soviet Union), the Committee for State Security, Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
The Sixteenth Directorate (Communications Interception and SIGINT), upgraded from Department to Directorate, operated the Soviet Union's government telephone and telegraph systems, thus ensuring successful interception of all communications of interest to the KGB.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, The Sixteenth Directorate was merged into FAPSI.
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