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Origins
KGB was created in 1917 based upon the Tsarist Security forces and was destined to protect the national security of the young soviet State. -
Causes of KGB failing to rebuild most of US illegal resident networks.
The KGB failed to rebuild most of its US illegal resident networks. Mainly because of the Second Red Scare (1947–57), McCarthyism, and the destruction of the CPUSA prevented recruitment. -
What is KGB?
It is the abbreviation of Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, the Committee of State Security, charged with the preservation of state power and maintaining surveillance over the Soviet population from 1954 to 1991. -
Power
Western estimates of KGB manpower have ranged from 490,000 in 1973 to 700,000 in 1986. -
Chief of KGB
From 1968 to 1988, the chief of this department, which probably had a staff of fifty to sixty employees, was Nikolai Savinkin.
