James Stuart ( ДЖЕЙМС )

 It was set up in 1954 and was attached to the council of ministers.  It successed other failed agencies such as the Cheka, NKGB, and MGB.  It acted as the secret service, intelligence and police for the then union-republican jurisdiction government.  It was also considered a military service and its main functions were foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, operative-investigatory activities, guarding the State Border of the USSR.

 It operated legal and illegal espionage in target countries and if caught they were protected of prosecution by diplomatic immunity.  When the spy was caught they were sent back to the USSR or declared a persona non grata and were then expelled from the target country.  While a spy was on an assignment in the target country they had no protection, the KGB valued illegal spies more than legal spies as they infiltrated with more ease and gathered more information.

 During this time the KGB failed to repair the illegal transmissions after the world war.  The KGB then started recruiting mercenaries.  US Navy Chief Warrant Officer John Anthony Walker was an example of a walk in recruit. He transmitted all signals coming in and out of the US navy to the KGB  In the end this way of operating proved successful in scientific matters because private industry practiced lax internal security, unlike the US Government.

 Public opinions mattered greatly to the KGB as it could save future revolts.  the KGB was instrumental in crushing the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and the Prague Spring of "Socialism with a Human Face", in 1968 Czechoslovakia.  The KGB had undercover spies in Czechoslovakia. They were to plant subversive evidence, justifying the USSR's invasion, that right-wing groups—aided by Western intelligence agencies.

 In the 1960s the CIA counter-intelligence chief James Jesus Angleton believed KGB had moles in two key places, the counter- intelligence section of CIA and the FBI's counter-intelligence department, through whom they would know of, and control, US counter-espionage to protect the moles and hamper the detection and capture of other Communist spies. Moreover, KGB counter- intelligence vetted foreign intelligence sources, so that the moles might "officially" approve an anti-CIA double agent as trustworthy. In retrospect, the captures of the moles Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen proved that Angleton, though ignored as over-aggressive, was correct, despite costing him his job at CIA, which he left in 1975.

 KGB of Belarus  KGB of Ukraine  KGB of Moldova / CSS of Moldova  KGB of Estonia / RJK of Estonia  KGB of Latvia / VDK of Latvia  KGB of Lithuania / VSK of Lithuania  KGB of Georgia  KGB of Armenia  KGB of Azerbaijan / DTK of Azerbaijan  KGB of Kazakhstan  KGB of Kyrgyzstan  KGB of Uzbekistan  KGB of Turkmenistan  KGB of Tajikistan  The KGB of Russia was rated the most successful agency by Time magazine in 1984.

 In August 1991, KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov led a failed effort to overthrow President Mikhail Gorbachev. Two months later, the agency was dismantled, its duties distributed among several new entities including the FSB secret police agency and the SVR espionage agency SVR.  It was the end of the KGB.