yuri vladimirovich dropov in the fifth department of protection of diplomatic missions, the seventh department of the kgb of the ussrspecial structural unit was created, now already known, i repeat, as group a, from the word. terror, therefore, unofficially in the state security committee the group was called the andropov group. in alpha this special unit turned into this already in the early nineties years, when the detachment began to be written about more or less widely in the duties of the group, which included: carrying out special assignments of the chairman of the kgb of the ussr to suppress terrorist, sabotage and other particularly important, particularly criminal... this was a large, serious operation, a lot was written about it, by that time several similar special units had already been created as part of the state security committee, similar in function, that is, there was already a zenith, there was already a cascade, in 1981 vimpel was already organized, these units had their functions, we'll talk about this later, today we're... talking about the alpha group. the first group consisted of only 30 peop