KGB (Komitet gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti)
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Military History
- Subcategories: Organizations, Agencies, Institutions, Espionage, Spying, Spies
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
- Geographical Location: Soviet Union
- Date: 1954-1991
In full, Komitet gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, or “Committee for State Security.” The KGB was the primary intelligence/counterintelligence agency and political police of the former Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991. The last and most enduring of a long line of similar agencies (beginning with the Cheka in 1917), the KGB operated in domestic circles as well as in the world of international espionage. In the four decades following World War II (1939-1945), the KGB engaged in more espionage activity than any of its Western counterparts, and infiltrated the ranks of every major...
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