The KGB (КГБ, Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности, Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti) was the national security agency of the USSR. From 1954 until 1991, the Committee for State Security was the Communist state's premier secret police, internal security, and intelligence organization. The Russian pronunciation of KGB is (Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности (help·info);
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The KGB (КГБ, Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности, Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti) was the national security agency of the USSR. From 1954 until 1991, the Committee for State Security was the Communist state's premier secret police, internal security, and intelligence organization. The Russian pronunciation of KGB is (Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности (help·info);
The contemporary State Security Agency of the Nation of Belarus uses the Russian name KGB. Linguistically, among the Western press, KGB denotes "secret service" in referring to the FSB. Most information remains classified, yet two on-line documentary sources are available.
The KGB originated as the Cheka (Chrezvychainaya Komissiya po Borbe s Kontr-revolutisnei i Sabotazzhem – Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolutions and Sabotage) established 20 December 1917, headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky, and based upon the Tsarist Okhrana intelligence-security agency; the name Cheka ...
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