The Committee for State Security, more commonly known by its transliteration “KGB” was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its collapse in 1991. The committee was a direct successor of such preceding agencies as Cheka, NKGB, and MGB. It was the chief government agency of “union-republican jurisdiction”, acting as internal security, intelligence, and secret police. Similar agencies were instated in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from the Russian SFSR and consisted of many ministries, state committees and state commissions.
The KGB also has been considered a military service and was governed by army laws and regulations, similar to the Soviet Army or MVD Internal Troops. While most of the KGB archives remain classified, two on-line documentary sources are available. Its main functions were foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, operative-investigatory activities, guarding the State Border of the USSR, guarding the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Government, organization and ensuring of government communications as well as fight against nationalism, dissent, and anti-Soviet activities.
After breaking away from the Republic of Georgia in the early 1990s with Russian help, the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia established its own KGB (keeping this unreformed name).
If Ivan Sìerov first KGB chairman had bloody hands from time in NKVD. What should one think about Nìkita Khrushchev very close coworker of STALIN.
This documentary states that George Blake died in 1996. Who ever made this should have hired a fact checker.
Mostly a U.S. apologetic with the usual unanswered, or even asked, questions. For example, it gives the illusion that the Soviets placing missiles in Cuba was a really aggressive step, while just sort of sliding over the fact that the U.S. has already surrounded the USSR. Had the USSR placed missiles in Mexico and Canada, it would still not have been an equal comparison. Many other things as well. So so.
This is sooo old! Very dry thing to watch but chock full of info.
Bull. KGB mole inside CIA sold Penkovsky. Penkovsky had lots of friends in Soviet Army. One of them was Marshall Voroncov head of missile force in USSR.
This is why is known as history.