KGB

Also known as Committee for State Security, Committee for State Security of the USSR, Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union, CSS of the USSR, State Security Committee of the USSR, State Security Committee of the Soviet Union, SSC of the USSR

sowjetischer In- und Auslandsgeheimdienst

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The KGB was the Soviet Union's main security and intelligence agency from 1954 to 1991, responsible for internal security, foreign intelligence, and secret police operations. It matters historically because it was a central instrument of Soviet state control and successor to earlier Soviet secret police forces, wielding significant power over the country's population and activities abroad.

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Government agency.agency_name: KGB
Government agency.seal: Emblema KGB.svg
Government agency.seal_width: 150
Government agency.preceding1: Cheka (1917–1922)
Government agency.preceding2: GPU (1922–1923)
Government agency.preceding3: OGPU (1923–1934)
Government agency.preceding5: NKGB (February–July 1941/1943–1946)
Government agency.superseding1: MSB (1991)
Government agency.superseding2: TsSR (1991)
Government agency.superseding3: AFB (1991)
Government agency.superseding4: KOGG (1991)
Government agency.headquarters: Lubyanka Building, 2 Bolshaya Lubyanka Street, Moscow, Soviet Union
Government agency.chief1_name: Chairman
Government agency.agency_type: State committee of union-republican jurisdiction
Government agency.child1_agency: Foreign intelligence: First Chief Directorate
Government agency.child2_agency: Counter-Intelligence: Second Chief Directorate
Government agency.child3_agency: Political police: Fifth Chief Directorate
Government agency.child4_agency: Cryptography: Eighth Chief Directorate

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Field of work: counterintelligence
Country: Soviet Union
Located in: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Headquarters: Moscow
Parent organization: Council of Ministers of the USSR
Chairperson: Vadim Bakatin
Employees: 480000
Follows: Ministry for State Security
Image: RIAN archive 142949 Lubyanka Square in Moscow.jpg

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Commons category: KGB
topic's main category: Category:KGB
inception: 1954-03-13
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1991-12-03
applies to jurisdiction: Soviet Union
short name: КГБ
native label: Комитет государственной безопасности СССР
replaces: NKVD
different from: Ministry of State Security
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
authority: Council of Ministers of the USSR
category for employees of the organization: Category:KGB officers

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Das KGB (auch: der; , „Komitee für Staatssicherheit“) war der sowjetische In- und Auslandsgeheimdienst und die Geheimpolizei. Er bestand von 1954 bis 1991. Der vollständige Name des KGB lautete von 1954 bis 1978 Комитет государственной безопасности при Совете Министров СССР (Komitet gossudarstwennoi besopasnosti pri Sowjete Ministrow SSSR, „Komitee für Staatssicherheit beim Ministerrat der UdSSR“) und von 1978 bis 1991 Комитет государственной безопасности СССР (Komitet gossudarstwennoi besopasnosti SSSR, „Komitee für Staatssicherheit der UdSSR“). Große Teile der Strukturen des KGB gingen nach Zerfall der Sowjetunion in die heute noch in Russland existierenden Geheimdienste FSB und SWR auf. Der Geheimdienst von Belarus trägt weiterhin die Bezeichnung KGB.

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