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KGB | |
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Motto | Loyalty to the party - Loyalty to motherland Верность партии - Верность Родине |
Formation | 1954-03-13 |
Extinction | 1991-11-06 |
Parent organization | Russia |
Type | intelligence agency |
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 |
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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 |
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Alexander Principalov | Spook | 1997 | 1992 |
Vladimir Putin | Spook | 1975 | 20 August 1991 |
Event Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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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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