KGB
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An acronym, meaning Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, or State Security Committee.
The KGB is the USSR's central security, espionage, and secret policing organisation, although it shares the first two of these roles with the GRU (Military Intelligence). As a result, the rivalry between these two organisations is intense.
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History
The KGB has a long and continuous history, beginning with its inception in 1954 as an umbrella organisation for all internal and external security threats to the Union.