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KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian abbreviation for Committee for State Security (Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности (help·info); Komityet Gosuarstvennoy Bezopasnosti), which was the official name of the umbrella organization serving as the Soviet Union's premier security agency, secret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991. Then, the official name of this organization was changed to FSB (ФСБ, Федеральная служба безопасности), although the word KGB may apply to the secret police of various epochs.

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  • The NKVD, which liquidated its own first 2 chiefs in the 1930s, developed into this group in 1954
  • The CIA's main rival for much of its existence was this Soviet counterpart
  • The initials of this organization disbanded in 1991 were from Russian words meaning "Committee for State Security"
  • (Sofia of the Clue Crew narrates from the Int'l Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.) You could give someone the kiss of death using the lipstick gun provided to employees of this Soviet spy agency
  • Vadim Bakatin became the last head of this intelligence service in 1991

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