It roughly combined the powers and activities of the Central Intelligence Agency, Border Patrol, FBI (in part supplanted by MVD- formerly NKVD) and in bodyguarding celebs and Soviet politicians- the Secret Service- also preventing counterfeiting a Federal level crime. there was at least one KGB intelligence operative on every Soviet Submarine, and there is some evidence the agency had its own spy subs. There was and is-though inevitably scaled back, nothing quite like the KGB.
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The KGB is Russia's secret police organization created in 1917. In the beginning, the KGB was under control of the People's commission of the USSR. In 1991, the KGB was dissolved, and the foreign intelligence committee assumed duties.
The KGB were the soviet secret services back in the time of the Cold War
KGB is Russiaâ??s state security or military service branch specializing in foreign intelligence and counterintelligence. KGB is widely known for harsh tactics during the Cold War.
No, the KGB was not yet in existence when the Romanovs were alive. The Romanovs did however have their own secret police.
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