KGB
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kgb-181-3419079
title:
KGB
text:
The Committee for State Security, abbreviated as KGB, was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka, OGPU, and NKVD. Attached to the Council of Ministers, it was the chief government agency of "union-republican jurisdiction", carrying out internal security, foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence and secret police functions. Similar agencies operated in each of the republics of the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Main Soviet security agency from 1954 to 1991
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB
date created:
2001-10-11T15:09:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T20:37:24Z
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