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KGB

Main Soviet security agency from 1954 to 1991

Entitysecurity agencyCommittee of National SecurityState Committee of the Soviet UnionQ80919

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

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93 statements · 14% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Dissolved
  • December 3, 1991
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Employees
  • 480,000(1991)
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  • КГБ СССР(since 1978) transliteration or transcription: KGB SSSR
  • КГБ transliteration or transcription: KGB
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Native label
  • Комитет государственной безопасности СССР(since 1978) transliteration or transcription: Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti SSSR
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