KGB (redirected from Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti)

KGB  (kj-b)

n.

The intelligence and internal security agency of the former Soviet Union.

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[Russian, from K(omitet) G(osudarstvenno) B(ezopasnosti) : komitet, committee + gosudarstvenno : genitive of gosudarstvenny, of the state + bezopasnosti, genitive of bezopasnost', security.]

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KGB

abbrev

the former Soviet secret police, founded in 1954 Compare GRU

[from Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti State Security Committee]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

KGB - formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia Committee for State Security, Soviet KGB Russian agency - an administrative agency of the Russian government

Translations

KGB N (in former USSR) → KGB f

KGB [ˌkeɪdʒiːˈbiː] n abbr → KGB m

KGB

n → KGB m

KGB [ˌkeɪdʒiːˈbiː] n abbr the KGB → il KGB