Ninth Chief Directorate
The Ninth Chief Directorate of the KGB was the organization responsible for providing bodyguard services to the principal Communist Party of the Soviet Union leaders and major Soviet government facilities. It operated the Moscow VIP subway system, and the secure government telephone system linking high-level government and CPSU officers.
In mid-1992 the KGB's Ninth Directorate became the Main Guard Directorate and in 1996 it was re-organized to the Federal Protective Service of Russia.
