Brief introduction of KGB: the most famous intelligence agency in the former Soviet Union

KGB is the National Security Council of the Soviet Union. Russian abbreviation is кгб, and English pronunciation is "KGB". This is the national intelligence agency in the Soviet era, mainly engaged in espionage and counter-espionage, and also served as the secret police for internal monitoring. This organization is powerful, and it is also called "the world's four major intelligence organizations" with British MI 6, the US Central Intelligence Agency and Israel Mossad.

19171KLOC-0/In June, the Soviet Union, which just seized power, established the "Committee for Eliminating Counterrevolutionaries", headed by dzerzhinsky, which played a leading role in the complicated domestic and international struggles at that time. This organization is the predecessor of KGB. More than 30 years have passed, and this organization has changed its name again and again, such as the Political Security Bureau, the territory of national security, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and so on. 1March, 954, finally named the National Security Council, that is, the KGB. 199 1 After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the main organization of the KGB was reorganized into the Security Territory of the Russian Federation (FSB). The name KGB has been used for more than 30 years, but it is usually called the unified name of the national intelligence agency of the former Soviet Union. It has been more than 70 years since the Cheka era and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Soviet Russia (and the former Soviet Union) has been surrounded by western countries since its birth, and fell into the cold war pattern after World War II. Intelligence work has always been a group dance at the tip of a knife. Therefore, the KGB organization is very large, reaching more than 500,000 people at one time, including more than 200,000 people in government departments and 300,000 people directly under the army. In addition, there are 6.5438+0.5 million domestic informants and more than 200,000 foreign intelligence personnel, which can be called a huge special force. In fact, Russia's most elite special forces "Alpha" was formerly a counter-terrorism team composed of elites selected from the KGB.

During the Cold War, the pervasive KGB was a nightmare for western countries, and it often played a villain role in western spy movies. The KGB also played an important role in the political jokes of the Soviet Union. For example, in a joke, when a ballet "Swan Lake" was staged in a theater, an emergency suddenly appeared, and all KGB comrades were informed on the radio to please go to the gate. So the hula dance, the audience walked halfway, and the white swan on the stage ran to the door with four little swans. ...