Editing KGB

{{Evil_Organization|Box title = Evil Organization|image = 8A7970B7-F029-4EE3-B425-62B0ECA7866E.png|fullname = English: Committee for State Security<br>

Russian: Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности|origin = Soviet Union|foundation = March 13, 1954|headquarters = Moscow, Soviet Union|commanders = [[Ivan Serov]] (1954-1958)<br>

[[Alexander Shelepin]] (1958-1961)<br>

[[Vladimir Semichastny]] (1961-1967)<br>

[[Yuri Andropov]] (1967-1982)<br>

[[Vitaly Fedorchuk]] (1982)<br>

[[Viktor Chebrikov]] (1982-1988)<br>

[[Vladimir Kryuchkov]] (1988-1991)<br>

[[Vadim Bakatin]] (1991)|agents = [[Vladimir Putin]]

[[Andrei Lugovi]]<br>[[Kim Philby]]|skills = Spying|goals = Get as much information from the United States and it’s allies as possible (Sometimes succeed)<br>

Silence any dissent|crimes = Espionage<br>

Kidnaping<br>

[[Murder]]<br>

[[Torture]]|type of villains = Oppressive Secret Police}}

{{Quote|Loyalty to the party – Loyalty to motherland.|The KGB's motto.}}

The '''Committee for State Security''' (''Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности'') or more commonly known as the '''KGB''' was the main intelligence agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until it’s dissolution in 1991.

As a direct successor of preceding agencies such as the Cheka, NKGB, [[NKVD]] and MGB, the committee was attached to the Council of Ministers. It was the chief government agency of "union-republican jurisdiction", acting as internal security, intelligence and secret police. Similar agencies were constituted in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from Russian SFSR, and consisted of many ministries, state committees and state commissions.

The agency was a military service governed by army laws and regulations, in the same fashion as the Soviet Army or MVD Internal Troops. While most of the KGB archives remain classified, two online documentary sources are available. Its main functions were foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence, operative-investigatory activities, guarding the State Border of the USSR, guarding the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Soviet Government, organization and ensuring of government communications as well as combating nationalism, dissent, and anti-Soviet activities.

During the Cold War, the KGB actively sought to combat "ideological subversion" – anti-[[communist]] political and religious ideas and the dissidents who promoted them – which was generally dealt with as a matter of national security in discouraging influence of hostile foreign powers. After denouncing [[Stalin]]ism in his secret speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences in 1956, head of state Nikita Khrushchev lessened suppression of "ideological subversion". As a result, critical literature re-emerged, including the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was code-named PAUK ("spider") by the KGB. After Khrushchev's deposition in 1964, Leonid Brezhnev reverted the State and KGB to actively harsh suppression; house searches to seize documents and the continual monitoring of dissidents became routine again. To wit, in 1965, such a search-and-seizure operation yielded Solzhenitsyn manuscripts of "slanderous fabrications", and the subversion trial of the novelists Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel; Sinyavsky (alias "Abram Tertz"), and Daniel (alias "Nikolai Arzhak"), were captured after a Moscow literary-world informant told KGB when to find them at home.

[[Category:Russian Villains]]