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Directorate of Special Departments within NKVD USSR
| Управление Особых Отделов при НКВД СССР УОО НКВД СССР Special Departments or OO | |
| Military counter-intelligence overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 17 July 1941 |
| Preceding agencies | |
| Dissolved | 14 April 1943 |
| Superseding Military counter-intelligence | |
| Type | Military counter-intelligence, Secret Military Police |
| Jurisdiction | Soviet Union (World War II) |
| Headquarters | Lubyanka (4th and 6th floors) Moscow, and later (Kuibyshev) Soviet Union |
| Employees | 387 (in August 1941, in Moscow center) in May 1942 227 man |
| Minister responsible | |
| Military counter-intelligence executive | |
| Parent department | NKVD, NKVMF part till 1.11.1942 |
| Parent Military counter-intelligence | Council of People's Commissars |
Directorate of Special Departments within NKVD USSR. rus. Управление Особых Отделов при НКВД СССР, (UOO) was an organization created in 1941 to conduct military counterintelligence under one command. The UOO was created to take back control from the retreating Red Army after the German invasion of the USSR and to counter German espionage efforts in the Soviet Armed forces. The principle tactic used by the UOO on Red Army personnel was intimidation and terror.
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