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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.
The Russian attack on Ukraine, which began in February 2022, led to an ice age in German-Russian relations and an intensification of the Russian government's efforts to obtain military and political secrets from the FRG, with a particular focus on secrets related to the Ukraine war, as Germany plays an important role as an arms supplier to Ukraine.
After German reunification, revelations of the Stasi's international activities were publicized, such as its military training of the West German Red Army Faction. [45] Given the close relationship between the KGB and the Stasi, their Third World operations featured a clear cut division in responsibilities. The Soviets supplied military ...
German artist Markus Draper's installation, titled "The House Near a Deep Forest," shown in a Berlin gallery this year, painstakingly rendered the KGB villa in Dresden in miniature. Russian ...
The East German side of the border was guarded initially by the Border Troops (Pogranichnyie Voiska) of the Soviet NKVD (later the KGB). In 1946, the Soviets established a locally recruited paramilitary force, the German Border Police ( Deutsche Grenzpolizei or DGP), under the administration of the Interior Ministry for Security of the State ...
Russia: 1970: Left his KGB station in India disguised as a hippie, traveled to Greece, was debriefed in the U.S., but refused to stay in the country because of KGB infiltration of the CIA; later granted asylum in Canada Oleg Lyalin: KGB agent: Russia: 1971: Defected in London after being arrested there; exposed dozens of KGB agents in the city ...
The 1954 ukase establishing the KGB. March 13, 1954: Newly independent force became the KGB, as Beria was purged and the MVD divested itself again of the functions of secret policing. After renamings and tumults, the KGB remained stable until 1991. KGB – Committee for State Security Ivan Serov (March 13, 1954 – December 8, 1958)
Active measures were conducted by the Soviet and Russian security services and secret police organizations (Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, KGB, and FSB) to influence the course of world events, in addition to collecting intelligence and producing revised assessments of it.