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Filipp Denisovich Bobkov (Russian: Фили́пп Дени́сович Бобко́в; 1 December 1925 – 17 June 2019) was a Soviet and Russian KGB functionary, who worked as the chief of the KGB subunit responsible for repressing dissent (Fifth Main Directorate), which was responsible for suppression of internal dissent in the former Soviet Union.
The KGB, which emerged from the NKVD, was based in a huge closed-off complex in Berlin-Karlshorst from 1953 onwards. [9] This complex was later expanded to become the KGB's largest field office abroad. [10] The KGB coordinated actions by Soviet agents from here, including assassination attempts in West Germany.
KGB is an Australian comedy television series. [1] Created and directed by Luke and Dan Riches, it starred Clarence Ryan and Bjorn Stewart as a pair of detectives in the Perth suburbs of Koondoola, Girrawheen and Balga. [2] [3] It was released by the ABC for NAIDOC Week in 2019 [4] and had nearly 100,000 plays in its first two weeks. [5]
Activist Julius Kamau holds a placard as protesters demonstrate against what they say is a wave of unexplained abductions of government critics in Kenya.
The villa at #4 Angelika Street, in a suburban district overlooking the River Elbe, housed the KGB’s Dresden headquarters. Today, surrounded by a wall and garden, it’s an office building owned ...
The Committee for State Security (Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности, romanized: Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, IPA: [kəmʲɪˈtʲed ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ]), abbreviated as KGB (Russian: КГБ, IPA: [ˌkɛɡɛˈbɛ]; listen to both ⓘ) was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991.
In Leningrad Oblast in the late 1970s, Vladimir Putin's first KGB post was with the 5th Department, which countered dissidents with disinformation using active measures, and was strongly supported by Filipp Bobkov and the head of the KGB Yuri Andropov, who believed in "stamping out dissent". [11] [12] [13]
The KGB and Soviet Disinformation The Deception Game Lawrence Martin-Bittman (14 February 1931 – 18 September 2018), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] formerly known as Ladislav Bittman , was an American artist, author, and retired professor of disinformation at Boston University . [ 3 ]