Via GOVDOC-L: “On Friday, the Department of Justice announced indictments against 12 officers of the Glavnoye Razvedyvatel’noye Upravlenie (GRU), the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff. While unfamiliar to most Americans, the GRU has a long history of operating within and against the United States, dating back to the 1920s. In April 2017,  David M. Durant] created a post for our Cold War & Internal Security Collection blog that offered a basic introduction to the GRU. [He has] now added a brief update with a link to Friday’s indictments http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/cwis/2017/04/the-neighbors-the-gru-in-america-from-ales-to-fancy-bear/ – [David M. Durant, Associate Professor/Federal Documents & Social Sciences Librarian, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University]