Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti

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Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (a transliteration of Комит́ет Госуд́арственной Безоп́асности, Russian for Committee for State Security) or KGB (a transliteration of КГБ) was the umbrella organization name for the Soviet Union's premier security, secret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991.

The term KGB is also used in a more general sense to refer to the successive Soviet State Security organizations before 1954 (from the Cheka in 1917). KGB is also sometimes used in the British press to refer to the Russian FSB since 1991.

Roughly, the KGB's operational domain encompassed functions and powers like those exercised by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the counter-intelligence (internal security) division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Federal Protective Service, and the United States Secret Service.

On the 21st of December of 1995, Boris Yeltsin signed the decree that disbanded the KGB, to be substituted by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB).

For a full description of the real-world agency, see the article at Wikipedia.

In TV Superheroes

The KGB and its agents have historically been antagonists, wily and remorseless foes. Though it no longer exists as an organization, the KGB still serves as a recurring source for villains, former members of the security service now gone rogue, especially in the realm of international intrigue.

See Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (TV Superheroes) for full details.