noun
KGB
noun
1
The former Soviet security and intelligence agency, responsible for both foreign espionage and internal surveillance.
"The novel follows a KGB agent during the Cold War."
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Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe Soviet Union's main secret police and intelligence agency, active until the USSR dissolved in 1991.
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Etymology
An acronym of the Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, meaning "Committee for State Security".