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KGB: see secret police secret police, policing organization operating in secrecy for the political purposes of its government, often with terroristic procedures.
The Nature of a Secret Police..... Click the link for more information. . KGBRussian 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] See : Spying How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In fact, he became famous for ferreting out KGB agents who had penetrated the agency. Putin has never freed himself from the KGB," Politskovskaya said in an interview shortly before her death, during which she described Putin as a Stalinist bureaucrat with "no understanding" that people have rights. Earlier in the day, he had reportedly met two Russian men -- one former KGB -- at a London hotel for tea. |
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