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agency, Soviet Union
Also known as: Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
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Category:
History & Society
- Russian in full:
- Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
- English:
- Committee for State Security
- Date:
- 1954 - 1991
- Headquarters:
- Moscow
- Areas Of Involvement:
- intelligence
- Related People:
- Vladimir Putin
- Boris Pugo
- Yevgeny Primakov
- Kim Philby
- Yury Andropov
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KGB, foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Soviet Union. During the Soviet era the KGB’s responsibilities also included the protection of the country’s political leadership, the supervision of border troops, and the general surveillance of the population. Established in 1954, the KGB was the most durable of a series of security agencies starting with the Cheka, which was established in December 1917 in the first days of the Bolshevik government. The Cheka (originally VCHEKA, an acronym derived from the Russian words for All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage) was charged with the preliminary investigation of counterrevolution ...(100 of 1816 words)