• The Main Directorate of State Security (Russian: Glavnoe upravlenie gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, Главное управление государственной безопасности, ГУГБ...
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    1926, then by Vyacheslav Menzhinsky until replaced by the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB) within the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs...
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  • Russian state security organization, on February 6, 1922, it was initially known under the Russian abbreviation GPU—short for "State Political Directorate under...
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  • KI returned to the MGB, as a First Main Directorate of the Ministry of State Security. The Second Main Directorate focused on domestic counterintelligence...
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    the Soviet State Security agency was part of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) as the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB). The...
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  • NKVD of the Russian SFSR ceases to exist and transforms into the all-union NKVD of the USSR; OGPU becomes GUGB ("Main Directorate for State Security") in...
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  • The People's Commissariat for State Security (Russian: Народный комиссариат государственной безопасности, romanized: Narodnyy komissariat gosudarstvennoy...
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    The Directorate of State Security (Albanian: Drejtoria e Sigurimit të Shtetit, DSSh), commonly called the Sigurimi, was the state security, intelligence...
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    as the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB), State Political Directorate (GPU), MGB, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, KGB and the First Chief Directorate (PGU)....
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    Ministry of Public Security of Laos Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam Ministry of State Security Mitrokhin Archive National Directorate of Security (KHAD...
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    The First Main Directorate (Russian: Пе́рвое гла́вное управле́ние, romanized: Pérvoye glávnoye upravléniye, IPA: [ˈpʲervəjə ˈɡɫavnəjə ʊprɐˈvlʲenʲɪje],...
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  • Pavlo Meshyk (category Soviet interior ministers of Ukraine)
    chief of the NKVD Main Economic Directorate (GEU) Investigational Section 1940–1941 chief of the NKVD GEU Department 1 1941 People's Commissar of State Security...
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    The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Головне управління розвідки Міністерства оборони України, romanized: Holovne...
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  • of Albania Main Directorate of State Security in the Soviet Union People's Commissariat for State Security (Soviet Union) State Security Council in South...
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  • the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Sigurimi (Directorate of State Security), active in the People's Socialist Republic of Albania Département du Renseignement...
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    SMERSH (category Military of the Soviet Union)
    (Special Section, OO) of the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB)—the most important security body within the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs...
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    detachment of our party"), and the OGPU was incorporated into the NKVD as the Main Directorate for State Security (GUGB); the separate NKVD of the RSFSR...
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    Yakov Agranov (category Commissars 1st Class of State Security)
    first chief of the Soviet Main Directorate of State Security and a deputy of NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda. He is known as one of main organizers of Soviet political...
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    of the Soviet Union. The main change was the removal of secret police functions, as the responsibilities of the Main Directorate of State Security of...
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    UPTI Affair (category Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology)
    of repressions against a number of scholars of the Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute in Kharkov, Soviet Ukraine, by the Main Directorate of State...
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  • Programs of the President of the Russian Federation Main Intelligence Directorate (Russia) Serbia: Security Intelligence Agency (BIA), Military Security Agency...
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  • Security, Iraq Directorate General for Public Security, Austria General Directorate of Security (Portugal) Main Directorate of State Security, USSR This disambiguation...
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  • a blend of standard military ranks and position-ranks; this system was largely reused by the newly created Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB) in...
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  • Lev Vlodzimirsky (category Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour)
    began his service in the state security authorities in May 1928, in one of the 12 districts of the Joinst State Political Directorate (OGPU). Then to April...
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    Bolshoy Dom (category Federal Security Service)
    headquarters of the newly created People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), when the OGPU was reincorporated as the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB)...
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    Association. Main Directorate of Counterintelligence Activities Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Main Directorate for Provision of Operational...
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  • Vitaly Fedorchuk (category Ministers of internal affairs of the Soviet Union)
    a Ukrainian Soviet security and intelligence officer and politician who served as Chairman of the Committee for State Security of the Ukrainian Soviet...
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    Aleksandr Feklisov (category Heroes of the Russian Federation)
    training school of the Main Directorate of State Security, where he specialized in the United States. From 1941 to 1946 Feklisov worked out of the Soviet consulate...
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    built up by Leopold Trepper on behalf of the Main Directorate of State Security (GRU). Trepper ran a series of clandestine cells for organising agents...
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  • Viktor Yartsev (category Majors of State Security)
    Economic Directorate of the United State Political Directorate (Main Directorate of State Security of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the...
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