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Also Known As Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
Date 1954 - 1991
Headquarters Moscow
Areas Of Involvement intelligence
Related People Vladimir Putin • Vladimir A. Kryuchkov • Boris Pugo • Heydar Aliyev • Yevgeny Primakov • Alexander Litvinenko • Kim Philby • Yury Andropov • Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin

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