Active reserve (KGB) officers with a military rank who worked undercover in the Soviet Union. "Trusted contacts" were high placed civilians who collaborated with the KGB without signing any official working agreements, such as directors of personnel departments at various institutions, academics, deans, or writers and actors. Informers were citizens secretly recruited by the KGB, sometimes using forceful recruitment methods, such as blackmail. The precise number of people from various categories remains unknown, but one of the estimates was 11 million "informers" in the Soviet Union, or one out of every eighteen adult citizens The active reserve was established by Yuri Andropov in
The Head of the Family (1967 film) Family. Leslie Caron has often referred to this film in interviews as one of her favourites in all her work. The Head of the Family (1967 film) Il padre di famiglia (internationally released as The Head of the Family) is a 1967 Italian comedy film directed by Nanni Loy. For his performance in this film and in "Italian Secret Service", Nino Manfredi was awarded with a Golden Plate at the 1968 Edition of the Italian Academy Awards known as David di Donatello. Totò died two days after having filmed his first scene in the film; he was replaced by Ugo