The Assassin Brotherhood operates as a clandestine global organization's structure shifted away from traditional gangs, adapting to global conflicts and modern technology while continuing its fight against the Templar-controlled terrorists, mafias, murderers and criminal gangsters. Instead of large, affiliated gangs, the Brotherhood operated as a clandestine, global organization, often with smaller, localized cells in the 20th and 21st centuries during and after the Cold War. A key example is the American and Russian Brothers working to counter the Templar-controlled Abstergo Industries, who had gained power through the commercialization of genetic memory technology. The Russian Brotherhood led by the KGB was nearly eradicated by the American-led Templar affiliated CIA.