KGB
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- proper noun
- /keɪ dʒi bi/
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KGB
- The KGB was notorious for its role in maintaining state security and suppressing dissent in the Soviet Union.
- KGB officer
- KGB agents
- KGB intelligence service
And I mean, they the KGB is state security.
- And I mean, they the KGB is state security.
- And this is all orchestrated by KGB agent Vladimir Putin.
- You document your time as a KGB spy before, during and after.
- Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB FSB agent, had the story.
- The three of them, the two KGB agents and my dad shake hands and hug.
- And they would create, like, it would be like the KGB versus, you know, the American Marines.
- I think that you're talking about a former KGB agent.
- He didn't want the KGB or the Gru to find out he was writing my uncle.
- And, and I mean, well, that wasn't, that was FSB by then and the KGB was long since dissolved.
- I remember somebody telling me once that and he was a retired KGB officer.
- To spot Trump's insecurities and ego, it takes years of KGB training and a television.
Examples
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Right behind them stands the Head KGB Officer from Moscow and his aide.
Fiction book (1997) -
We were all afraid of what the KGB people might be doing to us.
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I no longer consider myself a KGB agent.
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Do you believe that the KGB and Putin are working with President Trump?
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After the war, it became the KGB, which was split in 1993 into two security services.
Academic text (1996) -
You probably recognise my opposite number in the KGB.
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Carlos knows every link between the KGB and every terrorist organization in the world.
Fiction book (1997) -
We're not the KGB.
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Any of them could have been low-level KGB agents assigned to follow American exchangees.
Fiction book (1997) -
You wrote a book on the KGB spy Bogdan Stashinsky.
Synonyms
The main secret police and spy group in the former Soviet Union
The Soviet Union's main secret police and intelligence agency
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
KGB is an abbreviation of three Russian words: Komitet ('committee'), Gosudarstvennoy ('state') and Bezopasnosti ('security'), so it literally means 'Committee for State Security'. That's why KGB was the Soviet agency in charge of state security, intelligence and secret police work.