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The KGB (Russian: Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnost; usually translated as "Commissariat for State Security") was the principal security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until the breakup of the U.S.S.R. in 1991, and was responsible for both internal security and foreign espionage. It is the predecessor to the FSB, which is tasked with internal security; the KGB's foreign intelligence functions were spun off into a new agency, the SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service).
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The KGB was the result of the consolidation of numerous, ever-changing security agencies that existed in the early USSR, most prominently the Cheka, OGPU and NKVD. As an organization, the KGB had vast responsibilities, being composed of approximately 20 directorates. In addition to its internal security and foreign espionage roles, it was charged with duties as diverse as border patrol, propaganda, protection of sensitive government installations and protection of the political leadership. It even maintained paramilitary units that essentially functioned as small independent armies. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, many of these branches were devolved into independent agencies.
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In 1979, ICA operative Erich Soders was tasked with eliminating KGB spy Jasper Knight, who poisoned the U.S. Soviet ambassador for trying to defect to the West. Knight was meeting with KGB officer Cilas Netzke at a Cuban Airfield. The KGB had been helping Knight in his escape to the USSR, until Soders put an end to that.
The KGB also operated a train called The Mortar, used as a black site, data archive, and mobile interrogation facility until the fall of the Soviet Union, after which it was acquired by the Ether Biotech Corporation from Volgograd.