the KGB

Influential though it was, the KGB was a "combat division" of the Communist Party, and subordinate to it.

Unlike most of the ruling elite, he did not serve in the KGB, which may make him less prone to paranoia and conspiracy theories.

The KGB files show that a powerful section of the KGB believed that this was the case.

As I seek to prove in The KGB Poison Factory, the Litvinenko operation itself was the work of a Russian illegal.

Unlike many around the leader, he has no background in the KGB or security agencies.

He was not really a spy, as he has been described, but worked for domestic units of the FSB, one of the KGB's post-Soviet successors.

The KGB provided a crucial service of surveillance and suppression; it was a state within a state.

A year later, Alksnis was accused of homosexuality and espionage and shot by NKVD, the KGB's predecessor.

The book reveals how the KGB penetrated the top levels of the Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower administration.

His friends believed, no matter what the actual cause of death, that between them, the KGB and the SIS had sapped his will to live.

To protect themselves from rampant crime and racketeering, the oligarchs tried to privatise parts of the KGB.

"I mean, the FBI is acting like the KGB for heaven's sake in this case, " says Sherri Sera. "And they were given carte blanche to do it. "

Above, the Moscow offices of the Committee for State Security, better known as the KGB.

Gagarin wrote a 10-page memo and gave it to his best friend in the KGB, Venyamin Russayev, but nobody dared send it up the chain of command.

from, say, the KGB from knowing a great deal about the secret services, as various episodes over the decades proved.

Russia today is ruled by the KGB elite, has a Soviet anthem, servile media, corrupt courts and a rubber-stamping parliament.

Agents were often shared between MI6 and the KGB in the latter stages of the war , and possibility of a plant was obvious .

Two of the KGB men had been convicted in their country of compromising dozens of Soviet-era and Russian agents in the West.

Ogorodnik passed on hundreds of classified documents to the U. S. before he was caught by the KGB.

The KGB was still a threatening presence, housed, appropriately, in the building that had once been the Gestapo headquarters.

Three out of four senior Russian officials today were once affiliated to the KGB and other security and military organisations.

One example that I particularly like is the shoe, concealment devices, you see here, and used by the KGB in the 1980s.

Anna Chapman and Co. may have seemed silly, but they were actually carrying out Putin's master plan: re-creating the KGB.

The KGB sent a flash message to its operatives warning them to prepare for possible nuclear war.

In Soviet days, the KGB was a state within a state.

Today's Russia is not the Soviet Union; for all their common personnel, the FSB is not the KGB.

Once the KGB discovers that I am absent, the pressures on the Japanese to give me back will be incredible, like an avalanche.

Within two years, he left the KGB altogether.

So, when they were approached by a recruiter from Moscow, the four young men agreed to serve the KGB.

He even seemed to downplay Mr Putin's role in the KGB, saying that every country needed an intelligence service.

With his encyclopedic knowledge and understanding of the KGB and its history, he is finishing a new book called The Orlov KGB File.

Her work for others, slap in the face of Soviet bureaucracy and the KGB, piled up from that moment.

And he gained his financial expertise while working for the KGB?

The Soviet organ of state security, the KGB, has its roots in the secret police employed by the Czar.

Simultaneously it adopted close ties with Moscow, and particularly with the KGB.

The popular appeal was weaker than the force of the KGB: as many as half of all political prisoners in the Soviet Union were from Ukraine.

He considered bank robbery to alleviate his debts but deemed it easier to peddle secrets to the KGB.

And nearly 80% of Russians were positive about America. But the briefly outlawed Communist Party and the KGB felt betrayed and humiliated.

The professor says he began his career in the KGB in 1976.

Then their anger was diverted to the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the KGB's founding father.

Mr Kondaurov, a former spokesman for the KGB, worked for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who ran and largely owned Yukos.

As in the street and at the police station, the KGB and the OMON forces were in control.

Issued by the KGB beginning in the 1950s, this hollow coin could conceal microfilm and microdots.

Finally, in 1970, the KGB dug up the corpse, cremated it and secretly scattered the ashes in a river.

"Psychiatry and the KGB operate in direct collusion, " he declared.

The KGB plays a dominant, pervasive role in the Soviet Union's power hierarchy.

But the KGB files on these dedicated Soviet agents show a different picture.

Opposition activists are closely monitored by the secret police - still called the KGB.

In return, the kgb promised to give the MEK a full list of CIA agents in Iran.

Eight years later, though, the KGB men seemed poised for revenge.

The KGB eventually discovered the bug.

In 1961 the KGB confiscated the typescript and even, for good measure, the typewriter ribbon.

This suspicion tainted the KGB careers of all four.

After graduating from the Leningrad State Univ. Law school in 1975, he served in the KGB for 15 years .

Filipp Bobkov's last day as first deputy chairman of the KGB was January 29 1991.

Even the patient Philby, who is never known to have once said a bad word about the KGB, to anyone who spoke to him, got fed up.

Those in power are from the KGB.

Everything you wanted to know about the KGB but were afraid to ask

How the KGB (and friends) took over Russia's economy

Oh the KGB are knocking on his door

Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America