Chronology of Soviet security agencies | ||
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1917–22 |
Cheka under
Council of People's Commissars of the
RSFSR (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission) | |
1922–23 |
GPU under NKVD of the RSFSR (State Political Directorate) | |
1920–91 | PGU KGB or
INO under Cheka (later KGB) of the
USSR (First Chief Directorate) | |
1923–34 |
OGPU under
SNK of the USSR (Joint State Political Directorate) | |
1934–46 |
NKVD of the USSR (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) | |
1934–41 |
GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR (Main Directorate of State Security of People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) | |
1941 |
NKGB of the USSR (People's Commissariat of State Security) | |
1943–46 |
NKGB of the USSR (People's Commissariat for State Security) | |
1946–53 |
MGB of the USSR (Ministry of State Security) | |
1946–54 |
MVD of the USSR (Ministry of Internal Affairs) | |
1947–51 |
KI MID of the USSR | |
1954–78 |
KGB under the
Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (Committee for State Security) | |
1978–91 | KGB of the USSR (Committee for State Security) | |
1991 | MSB of the USSR (Interrepublican Security Service) | |
1991 | TsSB of the USSR (Central Intelligence Service) | |
1991 | KOGG of the USSR (Committee for the Protection of the State Border) | |
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