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KGB (
Komitet Gosudarstvennoye Bezhopaznosti, Rus. Committee for State Security) Soviet secret police. In the 1980s, it employed an estimated 500,000 people and controlled all police, security, and intelligence operations in the Soviet Union. It also gathered military and political information about other countries. Opposing liberalization under
Gorbachev, its chief was a leader of the attempted coup against him in 1991. After the collapse of communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union, it underwent extensive reform.
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KGB Targeted for Major Reform; New Leaders Face Problem of How Much Truth Should Be Told
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/27/1991; ; 700+ words
; The new leadership of the KGB will begin a major structural reform of...Mikhail Gorbachev said today. With former KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov in jail and under...failed military coup, Gorbachev has put the KGB's thousands of crack military troops...
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KGB WANING SECRET POLICE SUBJECTED TO SOVIET LAWS.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/3/1988; 700+ words
; ...diplomats say Mikhail Gorbachev is stripping the KGB of its enormous political influence in a...described Sunday as another sign that the KGB's power and influence is waning, Gorbachev...Chebrikov as head of the 71-year-old KGB as part of a sweeping purge of the Soviet...
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PR Newswire; 9/17/2009; 700+ words
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PR Newswire; 2/25/2009; 700+ words
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'The KGB decided to stop Gorbachev': a high-ranking KGB defector discusses his old agency's role in glasnost and perestroika. (Oleg Gordievsky) (interview)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 3/25/1991; ; 700+ words
; A high-ranking KGB defector discusses his old agency's role...years, Oleg Gordievsky rose through the KGB to the rank of colonel. But for his last...months after he was promoted to head of the KGB station in London, he defected. Last year...
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'kgb Answers' Mobile Application Debuts on Android and iPhone.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 11/4/2009; 700+ words
; kgb, the global information company behind America's most successful text answer service, kgb 542542, has introduced 'kgb Answers,' a new mobile answer application for the iPhone and Google...
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KGB Ex-General Assails Infiltration of Soviet Society; Despite Campaign to Change Image, Government's Spies Are Called `Omnipresent'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/17/1990; ; 700+ words
; The KGB under Mikhail Gorbachev continues to infiltrate...many dissident officers, according to former KGB Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin. Kalugin, once the...deception and the "unhealthy" machinations of the KGB. "The role of the KGB hasn't changed...
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KGB's Open House;Tours Replace Terror at Infamous Prison
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/8/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...Today you came in here peacefully," said KGB Gen. Alexander Karbayinov, welcoming a...sign of an American correspondent for any KGB agent-pulled up outside one of the principal...white bust of Yuri Andropov, who headed the KGB from 1967 to 1982, when he became Soviet...
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THE KGB LAUNCHES A CHARM OFFENSIVE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/10/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...sharp border which is the perimeter of the KGB." Of all the changes brought by glasnost...perhaps none is as astonishing as this: The KGB -- for years the most feared secret police...victims of purges in the Stalinist years. The KGB acknowledges that it shot 1.7 million...
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KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, USSR Committee of State Security)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, USSR...State Security) █ K. LEE LERNER The KGB ( Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti or Committee...Soviet equivalent of the American CIA. The KGB was the primary organization for intelligence...
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KGB
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
KGB (Russian abbreviation, Committee of State Security) Formed in 1953, the KGB was responsible for external espionage, internal...state’. The most famous chairman of the KGB was Yuri Andropov (1967–82) who was...
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Defectors, Soviet Era
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...West as part of an exchange; or former KGB general Oleg Kalygin, now residing in the United States, who criticized the KGB publicly but remained a Soviet citizen...in the Soviet secret services. In 1954 KGB agents Vladimir and Yevdokia Petrov defected...
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Bakatin, Vadim Viktorovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...Affairs, 1988 – 1990; last chairman of KGB, 1991; first chairman of Inter-Republic Security...coup attempt and then was appointed director of the KGB. He undertook the purge of the KGB senior leadership that had supported Vladimir Kryuchkov...
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Iury Vladimirovich Andropov
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...appointed chairman of the Soviet secret police (KGB, acronym for the Committee for State Security...Brezhnev and could be counted on not to let the KGB fall under the control of the new party...West. Andropov remained chairman of the KGB for 15 years, longer than any other secret...
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