Term used by officials to refer to execution or incarceration at the Lubyanka complex in Moscow. In fact, the cellar was used for executions only; it contained no cells. The principal internal prison is located on the sixth floor of the building.

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One of the major electronic security operations of the Cold War era. Undertaken by the British Security Service (M15) from 1958 onward, the electronics security effort was able to determine that from within the Soviet Embassy in London, the KGB was keeping track of British communications related to counterintelligence activities, such as trailing KGB officers in cars. M15 personnel could then correlate Soviet tracking efforts with their own activities, leading to more effective surveillance of suspected Soviet agents.