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| 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 Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (committee for state security, KGB) was the national security agency of the Soviet Union. The initials are an abbreviation for the Russian,. When the USSR became Russia, the KGB became the FSB.
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JFK Assassination
Aware of the coup being planned against JFK in USA in September of 1963, the KGB attempted to kill Lee Harvey Oswald "to prevent themselves from being sucked into a false war, but the assassination capabilities of the Russians within the United States were fairly limited, and the KGB was unable to kill Oswald."[1]
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 |
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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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