KGB

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The KGB was the Soviet Union’s main security and intelligence organization, responsible for state security, espionage, and political repression during much of the Cold War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf government organization
intelligence agency
security service
abbreviation KGB
activeDuring Cold War
allegiance Communist Party of the Soviet Union
country Soviet Union
dissolutionEvent dissolution of the Soviet Union
dissolved 1991
employerOf informants
intelligence officers
spies
establishedBy Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
followedBy FSB
Federal Agency of Government Communications and Information
Federal Border Guard Service of Russia
SVR
fullName Committee for State Security
linked to: KGB

Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
linked to: KGB
headquartersBuilding Lubyanka Building
headquartersLocation Moscow
ideology Marxism–Leninism
jurisdiction Soviet Union
languageOfWork Russian
locatedIn Lubyanka Square
linked to: Lubyanka Building

Moscow
Russian SFSR
Soviet Union
nativeNameLanguage Russian
notableActivity counterintelligence operations against NATO
disinformation campaigns
domestic surveillance of Soviet citizens
foreign espionage against Western countries
support of pro-Soviet regimes abroad
suppression of political dissent
precededBy MGB
NKGB
NKVD (state security functions)
linked to: NKVD
role border security
counterintelligence
espionage
foreign intelligence
internal security
political repression
secret police
state security
surveillance
supervisedBy Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
typeOfOrganization civilian intelligence agency
secret police organization

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Great Purge carriedOutBy NKVD
linked to: KGB
Eastern Bloc regimes securityApparatus Stasi
linked to: KGB
Soviet military officers partOf KGB troops
linked to: KGB
KGB fullName Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
linked to: KGB
KGB fullName Committee for State Security
linked to: KGB
KGB abbreviation KGB
Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union controls Soviet security apparatus
linked to: KGB
Eastern Bloc security forces cooperatedWith Soviet KGB
linked to: KGB
Eastern Bloc security forces notableExample Soviet KGB
linked to: KGB
NKVD successor KGB
Bulgarian Communist Party stateSecurityOrgan Committee for State Security
linked to: KGB
Casino Royale featuresOrganization SMERSH
linked to: KGB
Live and Let Die intelligenceAgencyOpposed Soviet intelligence
linked to: KGB
Stalinist repressions organizer Soviet security services
linked to: KGB
Alexander Svanidze persecutedBy Soviet security services
linked to: KGB
FSB predecessor KGB
FSB formedFrom KGB
FSB successorTo KGB Fifth Chief Directorate (domestic security functions)
linked to: KGB
MGB followedBy KGB
MGB dissolvedInto KGB
NKGB successor KGB
SVR predecessor KGB foreign intelligence
linked to: KGB
SVR formedFrom KGB
Federal Agency of Government Communications and Information precededBy KGB 8th Main Directorate
linked to: KGB
Order of the Red Star awardedBy KGB of the USSR
linked to: KGB
DSS similarTo KGB
Smiley’s People featuresOrganization KGB
subject linked to: Smiley’s People (novel)
MVD successor KGB
Soviet Ukraine securityOrgan KGB of the Ukrainian SSR
linked to: KGB
Bulgarian State Security alliedAgency KGB
subject linked to: Bulgarian State Security (DS)
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR distinctFrom KGB of the USSR
linked to: KGB
Kazakh SSR securityOrgan KGB of the Kazakh SSR
linked to: KGB
Rudolf Abel employer KGB
Soviet atomic bomb project (indirectly, via espionage) intelligenceAgencyInvolved KGB (successor organization)
linked to: KGB