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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 Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation [a] (FSB) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995.
R v B (KG), [1993] 1 SCR 740, popularly known as the KGB case, is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the admissibility of prior inconsistent statements as proof of the truth of their contents. Prior to this case, prior inconsistent statements made by a witness other than an accused could merely be used to impeach the witness's ...
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [a] was the highest organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between two congresses.According to party statutes, the committee directed all party and governmental activities.
KGB: Acronym for the principal security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991, now used as a slang term. Little girl In reference to FBI agents who pose as children online to catch child predators. Men in black
“‘KGB agent’ is a hard definition – that he got some money or some instructions. I don’t think so. But he was on the Soviet side, in all aspects,” he says.
SVR RF is the official foreign-operations successor to many prior Soviet-era foreign intelligence agencies, ranging from the original 'foreign department' of the Cheka under Vladimir Lenin, to the OGPU and NKVD of the Stalinist era, followed by the First Chief Directorate of the KGB.
Draper called the KGB building a constant amid the Cold War intrigue that swirled around it and across the Soviet bloc. “To me," he said, "it’s a kind of hinge, this house.”