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KGB

Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti

(“Committee for State Security”) Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. It was the descendant of earlier agencies. The Cheka was established in 1917 to investigate counterrevolution and sabotage. Its successor, the GPU (later OGPU), was the new Soviet Union's first secret-police agency (1923); it also administered corrective labor camps and oversaw the forcible collectivization of Russia's farms. By 1931 it had its own army and its spies and informers were ubiquitous. In 1934 it was absorbed into the NKVD, which carried out extensive purges. In 1941 the state-security and espionage functions were combined in the MGB. In 1954 the KGB was created. At its peak, it was the world's largest secret-police and espionage organization. It lost power under Mikhail Gorbachev, especially after leading a failed coup d'état (1991). It was renamed after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and its internal-security functions were segregated from its espionage and counterespionage operations.

KGB

the Committee of State Security, USSR agency (begun 1954) with responsibility for espionage and counter–espionage. [EB, V; 780]

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CBRE is suing KGB USA, a provider of directory assistance formerly known as Infonxx, for unpaid commissions calculated to be $380,983 for a lease the company signed at 655 Madison Avenue, a suit filed May 4 in Manhattan State Supreme Court says.

CBRE sues for $380K commission in Plaza District building by Pincus, Adam / The Real Deal

While he did not specify what "behaviour" he meant, he said Gordievsky - who worked secretly for Britain while head of the KGB in London - had been under "severe stress" since Litvinenko's murder in November 200.

POISONED SPY PROBE by The Mirror (London, England)

Storied East Village literary haunt KGB Bar is shopping a new paperback fiction anthology to publishers this week, called The Greatest Stories Ever Read, according to literary agent Peter Steinberg, who is representing the book to publishers.

KGB Bar Shopping Fiction Anthology Featuring Stories by Lethem, ... by Leon Neyfakh / The New York Observer