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KGB

(kā′jē-bē′)

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

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

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KGB

abbreviation for

the former Soviet secret police, founded in 1954. Compare GRU

[from Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti State Security Committee]

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KGB

or K.G.B.,

the Soviet secret police responsible for intelligence and internal security, formed in l954.

[< Russian, for K(omitét)g(osudárstvennoĭ)b(ezopásnosti) Committee for State Security]

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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

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КГБ

KGB

N (in former USSR) → KGB f

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KGB

[ˌkeɪdʒiːˈbiː] n abbr → KGB m

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KGB

n → KGB m

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KGB

[ˌkeɪdʒiːˈbiː] n abbr the KGB → il KGB

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They then imply they have seen Weinstein's latest book reporting his access to KGB files, but give no citation.

Letters

They decided that information brought to Britain by KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin could not be put as evidence to a UK court.

Ulster Commie spy was quizzed and released by MI5

In 1993 Weinstein's publisher paid an organization of former KGB agents an unknown sum of money to grant Weinstein and his collaborator Alexander Vassiliev "substantial and exclusive access to Stalin-era operational files" of the KGB and its predecessors (to avoid confusion, referred to here simply as the KGB).

The Spies Who Loved Us?

And how many times have I seen a KGB officer embark on an endless monologue which started with different threats but ended up in telling me his life story.

Security of having nothing to lose: six days of the summer at Caux were devoted to a conference on `the life of faith', which was addressed by the Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya

But when Mature Liar started up in 1982, it really ate into our subscriber base, because it was targeted at senior citizens likely to believe the FBI killed John Kennedy with the aid of the KGB and the little green men.

Rumor industry on last legs?

The Digest said it was Yakunin who provided it with "top secret" KGB documents that, it said, demonstrate KGB efforts to infiltrate and manipulate the WCC.

Church council aided KGB, magazine says; renewed charges called 'vicious smear.' (World Council of Churches; Feb. '93 Reader's Digest magazine)

Anna agrees to undergo intensive training then serve her KGB masters for five years in return for a new life free from violence.

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Although the broad outlines of this story would sound familiar to residents of most authoritarian states, Matulaitis was the target of a distinctive KGB tactic known as profilaktika, or "prophylaxis." This tactic was designed to prevent minor political transgressors from turning into habitual critics of the regime by summoning them to "prophylactic chats" and other police-led interventions, where KGB officers (sometimes joined by other citizens) questioned their targets, lectured them about Soviet values, elicited a confession, and warned about tough measures against recidivists.

A Soviet Theory of Broken Windows: Prophylactic Policing and the KGB's Struggle with Political Unrest in the Baltic Republics

He was Putin's boss when they both worked in the KGB in Leningrad in the 1970s.

Britainis a soft touch; EX-KGB CHIEF WARNS PUTIN WILL STRIKE AGAIN Hit back over the novichok raid, says Russian

The communists used the church as a KGB tool for spying and reporting on people.