Russian FAPSI Military Signals Intelligence Department Badge

Description

Original Item – Only One Available. This rare intelligence badge originates from FAPSI, the powerful Russian agency that operated from 1991 until 2003 as the direct successor to the KGB’s communications and electronic intelligence directorates. Comparable to the American NSA, FAPSI was responsible for cryptography, secure government communications, and global signals interception during the turbulent post-Cold War years. The badge features the sword-and-shield emblem of Russian intelligence, a satellite dish over the globe symbolizing worldwide surveillance, and a cryptographic key denoting authority over secure communications. With FAPSI long dissolved and its functions absorbed by the FSB, SVR, and FSO, authentic badges from its specialized foreign signals unit are exceptionally rare. A remarkable artifact of early post-Soviet intelligence history, highly prized by advanced collectors of espionage memorabilia and Cold War legacy items.