KGB

KGB
Motto	Loyalty to the party - Loyalty to motherland Верность партии - Верность Родине
Predecessor	•  Ministry of Internal Affairs •  Ministry for State Security
Successor	•  Federal Security Service •  Central Intelligence Service •  Committee for State Border Guard •  Foreign Intelligence Service
Formation	1954-03-13
Extinction	1991-11-06
Parent organization	Russia
Headquarters	Lubyanskaya ploshchad, 2, Moscow, Russian SFSR
Type	intelligence agency
Subgroups	•  First Chief Directorate •  (foreign intelligence) •  Second Chief Directorate (internal security and counterintelligence) •  Eighth Chief Directorate (ciphering and government communication) •  Chief Directorate of Border Forces
Interest of	John Barron, William Corson

The KGB was the national security agency of the Soviet Union. The initials are an abbreviation for the Russian, Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (committee for state security). When the USSR became Russia, the KGB became the FSB.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Mass surveillance	“Extreme forms of monitoring, whether by the KGB in the Soviet Union, the Stasi in East Germany, or Big Brother in 1984, are essential elements of all tyrannies, and technology is making both monitoring and the consolidation of surveillance data easier than ever.”	Robert Epstein	18 February 2016

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Alexander Principalov	Spook	1997	1992
Vladimir Putin	Spook	1975	20 August 1991

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
1980s Afghan war	24 December 1979	15 February 1989	Afghanistan	Another episode of the Soviet Union and US imploding a third world country from inside by fuelling a civil war with weapon smuggling. Afghanistan has yet to recover.

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