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Illegals are parallel organizations set up independently from the two main intelligence organizations (KGB & GRU), under their own separate station chief, or ''Rezident'', for the contingent purpose should a break in diplomatic relations occur, and all legal operatives with valid passports are expelled, a parallel espionage organization remains in place.  Also, they still may be engaged in highly secret ongoing activities, and their absolute highest concern is to avoid detection.  They are "[[Sleeper_agent#Sleeper_Agents_in_Espionage|sleeper cells]]", to use a term recently popularized by American news organizations.

Illegals are parallel organizations set up independently from the two main intelligence organizations (KGB & GRU), under their own separate station chief, or ''Rezident'', for the contingent purpose should a break in diplomatic relations occur, and all legal operatives with valid passports are expelled, a parallel espionage organization remains in place.  Also, they still may be engaged in highly secret ongoing activities, and their absolute highest concern is to avoid detection.  They are "[[Sleeper_agent#Sleeper_Agents_in_Espionage|sleeper cells]]", to use a term recently popularized by American news organizations.

==External link==

==External link==

V.I. Lenin, ''Terms of Admission into Communist International'' (July, 1921) "must everywhere build up a parallel illegal organisation"[http://ciml.250x.com/archive/comintern/termsadm.html]

V.I. Lenin, ''Terms of Admission into Communist International'' (July, 1921) "must everywhere build up a parallel illegal organisation"[http://ciml.250x.com/archive/comintern/termsadm.html]

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