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KGB

Or K.G.B.

the intelligence and internal-security agency of the former Soviet Union, organized in 1954 and responsible for enforcement of security regulations, protection of political leaders, the guarding of borders, and clandestine operations abroad.

KGB

abbreviation

the former Soviet secret police, founded in 1954 Compare GRU

KGB

The secret police of the former Soviet Union.

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Origin of KGB¹

< Russian, for K ( �ǳ��é�� ) g ( �ǲ��ܻ�á��ٱ��ԲԴ�ĭ ) b ( ��Ǳ�á��Դǲ��پ� ) Committee for State Security

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of KGB¹

from Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti State Security Committee

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In January 1977, desperate for money to finance a heroin deal, he flouted KGB instructions and appeared unannounced outside the Soviet Embassy.

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Still, the KGB was watching, and Miller, shambling, bitter and broke, made a tempting target.

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Gordievsky has since written a number of books about the operations of the KGB.

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Meanwhile, leaders of the free world recoil in horror from an America that turned overnight from a beacon of liberty to a mouthpiece for Nazis and the KGB.

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Oddly enough, the man who served as Oswald’s KGB handler in Minsk would later go on to sign the Belavezha Accords — the very document that dissolved the Soviet Union in 1991.

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