ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əjə pəlʲɪˈtʲitɕɪskəjə ʊprɐˈvlʲenʲɪje]), abbreviated as OGPU (Russian: ОГПУ), was the secret police of the Soviet Union from November...

the OGPU was devoted to sabotaging Akulov." Stalin must have agreed to his reinstatement with ill grace, because four years later he accused the OGPU/NKVD...

Soviet Red Army soldier, Chekist, OGPU agent and Chief of OGPU Eastern Section (1928–1929). The first senior OGPU officer to defect to the West (1930)...

The agency was formed to succeed the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) secret police organization, and thus had a monopoly on intelligence and...

of the Cheka, and was replaced by the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU). The official designation in line to the native reference is: Русский: =...

successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka, OGPU, and NKVD. Attached to the Council of Ministers, it was the chief government...

January] 1891 – 2 February 1940) was a Soviet politician and member of the Cheka and OGPU. He was a key figure in the Red Terror, the Great Purge and dekulakization...

led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing state security organs for the Bolshevik government. He was...

leaves the NKVD and becomes all-union OGPU under direct control of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. OGPU – "Joint State Political Directorate"...

department (special safeguard) of Operod, SOU OGPU, Mar–Jun 1931 4th department of Operod, OGPU, Jun 1931 Operod of OGPU Operative division (Operod) of GUGB NKVD...

was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who served as chairman of the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union, from 1926 to 1934. Born to Polish...

Air Force, the Navy, Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) and the Internal Troops. The OGPU later became independent and in 1934 joined the NKVD secret...

Directorate (OGPU). Then to April 1930 he served in its administration, and until July 1934 in the administration of the North Caucasian district of the OGPU. From...

of the Cheka, i.e. the State Political Directorate or GPU, and then the OGPU of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Later, he worked for...

Office of troops VCHK-OGPU. 1 December 1922 – The headquarters of the troops OGPU. 3 October 1923 – Inspektsiya troops GPU-OGPU. 6 November 1926 – The...

Transcaucasian SFSR OGPU. In December 1926, he was appointed Chairman of the Georgian OGPU, and deputy chairman for the Transcaucasian OGPU. During his years...

VChK became OGPU in 1922, and the OSNAZ was renamed accordingly. On 17 June 1924, the OSNAZ battalion, an OGPU rifle battalion and an OGPU rifle regiments...

agency was administered by the Cheka, followed by the GPU (1922–1923), the OGPU (1923–1934), later known as the NKVD (1934–1946), and the Ministry of Internal...

counter-espionage deception created by the OGPU, the intelligence successor of the Cheka. Thus, undercover agents of the OGPU lured Reilly into Bolshevik Russia...

Directorate of State Security (GUGB), State Political Directorate (GPU), MGB, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, KGB and the First Chief Directorate (PGU). At the time of the...

Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU), which was then the Soviet secret police.[citation needed] In July 1931, the OGPU seized control of the Intercession...

(Монархическое объединение Центральной России, МОЦР), in order to help the OGPU identify real monarchists and anti-Bolsheviks. The created front company...

the OGPU-GULag). He was entrusted with the leadership of all the OGPU camps of that time. In 1930 he organized the Vaygach expedition of the OGPU and...

2006) was a veteran of the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War, an OGPU security agent, and at the time of his death the last surviving Chekist of...

Bolshevik, and an agent of the Cheka and the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU). Blumkin was born into a Jewish shopkeeper's family, was orphaned early...

(RIAU) and later an operative of the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU). After joining the Ukrainian anarchist movement, Zadov was arrested and...

Canadian-born Soviet secret agent and "long-time special courier of the OGPU-NKVD foreign intelligence during the 1930s and 1940s." Although mentioned...

Foreign Department of Joint State Political Administration or OGPU. In July 1934, the OGPU was reincorporated into the NKVD. In 1954, the NKVD in turn became...

Manchuria (Manchukuo by early 1932) were too conspicuous. Most Soviet GRU and OGPU/NKVD agents (the "Russians") spoke a smattering of Chinese and (less common)...

In early 1932, recommended by the Party to join the security services (OGPU), he was assigned to the Economic Department and possibly to the Investigation...