Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 KGB, which emerged from the NKVD, was based in a huge closed-off complex in Berlin-Karlshorst from 1953 onwards. [9] This complex was later expanded to become the KGB's largest field office abroad. [10] The KGB coordinated actions by Soviet agents from here, including assassination attempts in West Germany.
In 1992, Director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Yevgeny Primakov admitted that the KGB was behind the newspaper articles claiming that AIDS was created by the U.S. government. [2] Segal's role was exposed by KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin in the Mitrokhin Archive.
According to The Sunday Times, as a KGB scout, he was based at the Soviet embassy in London from 1988, bringing his son, Evgeny Lebedev, with him. [7] [4] At the embassy, he worked on economic issues with Andrey Kostin who was also at the embassy until 1990. [8] He worked for the KGB's successor, the Foreign Intelligence Service, until 1992. [1]
[21] In the 2009 ITV programme, Inside MI5: The Real Spooks, Oleg Gordievsky recounted how he saw the head of the British section of the KGB expressing surprise at the allegations that he read in a British newspaper about Hollis being a KGB agent, saying "Why is it they are speaking about Roger Hollis, such nonsense, can't understand it, it ...
Jack Philip Barsky (born Albrecht Dittrich, 18 May 1949) is a German-American author, IT specialist and former sleeper agent of the KGB who spied on the United States from 1978 to 1988.
After working on forgeries of memoirs sponsored by the Soviet secret police to further the leadership's political goals, and, as part of Operation Seat 12, helping to produce a play The Deputy that maligned Pius XII, he was appointed the first head of Department D (disinformation) of the KGB First Chief Directorate.
During the abortive Soviet coup attempt of 1991, led by KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, [7] he led crowds to the Russian White House, the center of anticoup efforts, and induced Yeltsin to address the crowds. After the coup, he became an unpaid adviser to the new KGB chairman, Vadim Bakatin. Ever vocal, Kalugin told the press that in the ...