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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

KGB

or K.G.B.

  1. the Soviet secret police responsible for intelligence and internal security, formed in l954.

    Category: Government

Origin of KGB:

< Russ, for K(omitét)g(osudárstvennoĭ)b(ezopásnosti) Committee for State Security

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Committee for State Security, KGB, Soviet KGB(noun)

    formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia


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