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/ˌrɛzᵻdɛnˈtjʊərə/, /ˌrɛzᵻdɛnˈtʃʊərə/, U.S. /ˌrɛz(ə)ˌd(ə)nˈt(j)ʊrə/ A group or organization of Russian intelligence agents in a foreign country.
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1959 P. Deriabin & F. Gibney Secret World xv. 177 The terms ‘Resident’ and ‘Residency’, translations of the Russian Rezident and Rezidentura, are not to be confused either with U.S. legal terminology or the British colonial outposts on which the sun never sets. They are merely technical descriptions for the intelligence chief of a particular jurisdiction in foreign service, and his establishment.]
1963 A. Dulles Craft of Intelligence viii. 102 Within the embassy there would still be intelligence officers, but they would restrict themselves, except in emergencies, to ‘clean’ operations... This unit the Soviets call the ‘legal residentura’. Outside the embassy..perhaps in a bookstore or a photography shop..was headquarters of the ‘illegal’ residentura.
1969 A. Marin Rise with Wind i. 8 He wouldn't like to be a Russian Kaygaybehnik confronted with Clay...The man was capable of bursting into any accessible residentura and slaughtering the comrades.
1979 Daily Tel. 15 Oct. 5/2 The deputy chief of the KGB Rezidentura in Tokyo..maintains numerous contacts among the staff and research fellows.
1998 Daily Tel. 12 Jan. 12/5 In early April 1937, the KGB rezidentura in London told Moscow Centre that Cairncross had been recruited.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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