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Amy Knight, The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union, Unwin Hyman (1990) ISBN 0-04-445718-9 Richard C.S. Trahair and Robert Miller, Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations , Enigma Books (2009) ISBN 978-1-929631-75-9
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)
The People's Commissariat for State Security (Russian: Народный комиссариат государственной безопасности, romanized: Narodnyy komissariat gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti) or NKGB, was the name of the Soviet secret police, intelligence and counter-intelligence force that existed from 3 February 1941 to 20 July 1941, and again from 1943 to 1946, before ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin's KGB years in East Germany offer a window into his crackdown on protests, war on Ukraine and yearning for empire. ... the onetime East German secret police. "It ...
Soviet secret police; All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka, 1917–22) State Political Directorate (GPU, 1922–23) Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU, 1923–34) People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD 1934–46) Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB 1934–41) People's Commissariat for State Security (NKGB, Feb Jul ...
Vladimir Putin's secret police identity card, issued by the East German Stasi while he was working as a Soviet KGB liaison officer from 1985 to 1989. [1] Both organizations used similar forms of repression.
This is a list of current secret police organizations. Fictional secret police organizations and historical secret police organizations are listed on their own respective pages. In this list, reputable sources, with relevant quotes, assert that the organizations in this list are secret police.
The MGB essentially inherited the "secret police" function of the old NKVD, conducting espionage and counterespionage, as well as enacting a policy of supervision and surveillance to keep control and to prevent disloyalty. After World War II, the MGB was used to bring the newly acquired Eastern Bloc under Soviet control. It enforced rigid ...