Department V, or Otdel Mokrie Dela, trained killers, formerly Department 13
FSB, renamed Second Chief Directorate of the KGB
KGB, USSR security agency (1954–91)
Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, or SVR, based at Yasenevo
Night Wolves, attackers and killers
Spetsnaz, Special Forces soldiers
SVR, foreign intelligence arm of the Russian Federation, based at Yasenevo
Vory v Zakone, or ‘thieves in law’, organized criminal underworld
Energomash, manufacturers of the RD250 rocket engine
Israel
Avigdor (Avi) Hirsch, Israeli ambassador in London
Meyer Ben-Avi (codename Cufflinks), Director of Mossad
Duvdevan, infiltrators of enemy countries
Kidon (‘Bayonet’ or ‘Speartip’), overseas assassins
Mossad (the ‘Institution’), secret intelligence agency
Mossad LeAliyah Bet, former name of Mossad
Sayanim (‘the Helpers’)
Sayeret Matkal, Special Forces unit
Shmone Matayim, or Unit 8200, cyber-brain think tank
Iran
Ali Fadavi, head of the Pasdaran Navy
Colonel Mohammed Khalq, Taeb’s head of operations
Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader
Hossein Taeb, head of intelligence for the Pasdaran
Al-Quds Brigade, inner kernel of the Pasdaran
Basij, Pasdaran volunteer reserve
FEDAT, nuclear weapons research and development HQ, operating under the Defence Ministry
Pasdaran, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
SAVAMA, secret police
VAJA, Iranian Ministry of Intelligence