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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.

==Background==

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.

As a direct successor of preceding agencies such as the [[Cheka]], [[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 of the Soviet Union]] and the Soviet Government, organization and ensuring of government communications as well as combating nationalism, dissent, and anti-Soviet activities.

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 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.
 ==Background==
-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.
+As a direct successor of preceding agencies such as the [[Cheka]], [[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 of the Soviet Union]] and the Soviet Government, organization and ensuring of government communications as well as combating nationalism, dissent, and anti-Soviet activities.