KGB

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Group.png KGB  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
RIAN archive 142949 Lubyanka Square in Moscow.jpg
Emblema KGB.svg
MottoLoyalty to the party - Loyalty to motherland
Верность партии - Верность Родине
Formation1954-03-13
Extinction1991-11-06
Parent organizationRussia
TypeIntelligence agency.png intelligence agency
Interest ofJohn 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

PageQuoteAuthorDate
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 Epstein18 February 2016

 

Employees on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedEnd
Alexander PrincipalovSpook19971992
Vladimir PutinSpook197520 August 1991

 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
1980s Afghan war24 December 197915 February 1989AfghanistanAnother 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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