K-Directorate is a fictional organized crime

Organized crime

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 group in the television series Alias

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, headquartered in St. Petersburg. It is an enemy of the Central Intelligence Agency

Central Intelligence Agency

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 and of the Alliance of Twelve

Alliance of Twelve

The Alliance of Twelve, with SD-6 being one of its subsidiary cells, is a fictional international organized crime group in the television series Alias...

. It figures most prominently in the first season.

K-Directorate is a criminal organization composed of former operatives from the Eastern/Soviet bloc. It acquired a number of Rambaldi artifacts, including the journal containing Page 47. One of its foremost agents was Anna Espinosa

Anna Espinosa

Anna Espinosa is a fictional character from the television series Alias, . Born in Cuba, raised in Russia, Anna was a Soviet spy at some point, until the collapse of the Soviet Union...

.

K-Directorate met its downfall shortly after the appearance of a new group led by a mysterious figure known only as "The Man"

Irina Derevko

Irina Derevko , is a fictional character on the television series Alias, and a main character during the second season of the series. Irina, played by Lena Olin, is the mother of the central character, Sydney Bristow.-Biography:...

. The Man had launched an attack on SD-6 and destroyed rival FTL. SD-6 learns of a meeting scheduled between The Man's criminal organization and K-Directorate in Moscow

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 to discuss the sharing of Rambaldi technology. Sydney Bristow

Sydney Bristow

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 and Marcus Dixon

Marcus Dixon (Alias)

Marcus R. Dixon is a fictional character on the television series, Alias. He has been one of Sydney Bristow's coworkers and the CIA's Director of Joint Task Force. He is portrayed by Carl Lumbly.-Character biography:...

 are tasked to eavesdrop on the meeting. Julian Sark

Julian Sark

Julian Sark is a recurring fictional character portrayed by David Anders on the ABC television series Alias. The series follows Sydney Bristow, an operative working for an organization called SD-6 which she believes is a covert branch of the Central Intelligence Agency...

 offers to transfer $100,000,000 to K-Directorate's Cayman Islands account. In exchange, Sark demands the Rambaldi journal. The offer is rejected by K-Directorate head Ilyich Ivankov, and Sark immediately assassinates him. The suddenly promoted new leader of K-Directorate, Lavro Kessar, accepts the offer. At a briefing Arvin Sloane

Arvin Sloane

Arvin Sloane is a fictional character played by Ron Rifkin. He was the former director of SD-6 on the television series, Alias.-Background:...

 advises his team that the body of Ivankov was delivered to K-Directorate headquarters by freight, packed in a crate of North Atlantic cod

Cod

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. Kessar has vanished and Sloane assumes that Sark is holding him hostage against the delivery of the manuscript in Tunisia

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. Sydney intercepts the journal before Sark can take delivery. Kessar's ultimate fate is not revealed, although Sloane surmises that K-Directorate is likely to soon get another shipment of fish. The last time the organization is heard from as an active entity is when it hires an assassin called the Snowman to kill one Bentley Calder, a retired KGB

KGB

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 mole and associate of Irina Derevko

Irina Derevko

Irina Derevko , is a fictional character on the television series Alias, and a main character during the second season of the series. Irina, played by Lena Olin, is the mother of the central character, Sydney Bristow.-Biography:...

 and Alexander Khasinau

Alexander Khasinau

Alexander Khasinau is a fictional character from the American television series Alias. He was played by Derrick O'Connor.Alexander Khasinau is second-in-command of a criminal organization headed by a mysterious figure known as "The Man." Julian Sark, who undertakes a number of missions on behalf of...

.

Little to nothing is heard of K-Directorate after season 1. In season 4, Jack refers to "the fall of K-Directorate." Anna Espinosa, presumed dead after the organization's fall, resurfaces in the same episode as a freelance operative.

Known Personnel

• Brandon Dahlgren (Go-between to "The Man")
• Anna Espinosa
• Noah Hicks (aka The Snowman, a double agent inside SD-6, former lover of Sydney's, and assassin)
• Ilyich Ivankov (leader until assassinated by Sark)
• Lavro Kessar (second-in-command until "promoted" by Sark, possibly deceased)
• Meike Gretchen