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On March 13, 1954, the Committee for State Security (KGB) was established under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. On this day, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree merging various departmen...
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...ts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs responsible for state security into the KGB, led by Colonel General Ivan Serov. The KGB was tasked with conducting intelligence operations in capitalist countries, countering foreign espionage within the USSR, overseeing counterintelligence in the Soviet Army and Navy, protecting party and government leaders, and other security functions. In December 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Law "On the Reorganization of State Security Agenc...