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    IPA: [kəmʲɪˈtʲed ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ]), abbreviated as KGB (Russian: КГБ; listen), was the main security agency of the Soviet Union...
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  • Look up KGB in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The KGB is a former Soviet security and intelligence agency. KGB may also refer to: State Security Committee...
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  • KGBS may refer to: KGBS-CD, a television station (channel 19) licensed to serve Austin, Texas, United States KENS, a television station (virtual channel...
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    The chairman of the KGB was the head of the KGB, the main security agency of the Soviet Union in 1954–1991. He was assisted by one or two first deputy...
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  • Rounders (film) (redirect from Teddy KGB)
    Poker. At an underground Texas hold 'em game run by Russian mobster Teddy "KGB", an overconfident Mike loses his entire $30,000 bankroll in a single hand...
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  • collection of handwritten notes about secret KGB operations spanning the period between the 1930s and 1980s made by KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin which he shared...
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  • KGB Museum may refer to one of the following Museum of the KGB, Moscow, Russia Vilnius KGB Museum, Lithuania A museum on the 23rd floor of the Sokos Hotel...
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    Shchusev from 1940 to 1947. It was previously the national headquarters of the KGB. Soviet hammer and sickles can be seen on the building's facade. The Lubyanka...
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    The State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus (KGB RB; Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности Республики Беларусь, КГБ РБ; Belarusian:...
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    longest-serving Russian or Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant...
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    KGB (760 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to San Diego, California. It is owned by iHeartMedia and airs a sports radio format. KGB has local...
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    KGB Archiver is a discontinued file archiver and data compression utility that employs the PAQ6 compression algorithm. Written in Visual C++ by Tomasz...
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    KGB Chicken or simply The Chicken) is a sports mascot played by Ted Giannoulas. The character originated in 1974 in an animated TV commercial for KGB-FM...
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    The KGB Prison Cells (Estonian: KGB Vangikongid) are former prison cells which were used by the KGB in Tallinn, Estonia. The building, known as Pagari...
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    Oleg Gordievsky (category KGB officers)
    Анто́нович Гордие́вский; born 10 October 1938) is a former colonel of the KGB who became KGB resident-designate (rezident) and bureau chief in London. He was a...
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    Yuri Andropov (category KGB chairmen)
    Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev, he was appointed chairman of the KGB on 10 May 1967. After Brezhnev suffered a stroke in 1975 that significantly...
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  • KGB is a video game released for the Amiga and IBM PC compatibles in 1992. Set in the decadent final days of the Soviet Union, KGB is considered to be...
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    decree on August 24, 1992 on the foundation of the Higher School of the KGB, and is located in Michurinsky Prospekt, Moscow, Russia. It consists of the...
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    KGB is a Soviet era-themed ("Communist chic" ) bar located in the East Village of New York City at 85 E. 4th Street, New York, New York 10003. Before...
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    Cheka/OGPU, then to NKVD/MGB and, finally, to the KGB. Accordingly, they were known as NKVD Border Security and KGB Border Troops. Unlike the border guards of...
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  • Sbornik KGB SSSR (ru:Сборник КГБ СССР) (USSR KGB Review), was a Russian-language secret inhouse journal published by the Soviet KGB in Moscow for the...
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  • Gunslinger's gait (redirect from KGB walk)
    The gunslinger's gait or KGB walk is a walking pattern observed in individuals associated with the KGB or the Red Army.[citation needed] It is a standard...
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    Security (KGB). Following the attempted coup of 1991—in which some KGB units as well as the KGB head Vladimir Kryuchkov played a major part—the KGB was dismantled...
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    Rosenbaum, Ron (2007-02-12) The Spy Who Came in From Geneva: Nosenko, the K.G.B. Defector. observer.com Bezmenov, Yuri; Griffin, G. Edward. (1984). Soviet...
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  • Jackson. This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West at the height of the Cold War in 1964. Three...
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    the Russians. Hanssen sold about six thousand classified documents to the KGB that detailed U.S. strategies in the event of nuclear war, developments in...
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    The KGB Espionage Museum was a museum dedicated to the unbiased presentation of historical and contemporary KGB espionage equipment and tradecraft. The...
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  • KGB-FM (101.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to San Diego, California. It is owned and operated by iHeartMedia and broadcasts in a classic...
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  • people and the culture of India. At the same time, he began to resent the KGB-sanctioned repression of Soviet dissidents and other intellectuals who dissented...
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  • Jack Barsky (category People of the KGB)
    a German-American author, IT specialist and former sleeper agent of the KGB who spied on the United States from 1978 to 1988. Exposed after the Cold...
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