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KGB
n. secret police force of the former Soviet Union


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KGB
KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian abbreviation for Committee for State Security (; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti), which was the umbrella organization serving as the Soviet Union's premier security agencysecret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991. The KGB's operational domain encompassed functions and powers like those exercised by the United StatesCentral Intelligence Agency (CIA), the counter-intelligence (internal security) division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency, the Federal Protective Service, and the Secret Service in the United States, or by the twin organizations MI5 and Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom.
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KGB
Noun
1. formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia
(synonym) Committee for State Security, Soviet KGB
(hypernym) Russian agency


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K.G.B., secret police force of the former Soviet Union

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K.G.B., secret police force of the former Soviet Union

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