M fed up hearing bout this KGB all d time...wht bout LITVICHENKO??I hear he was poisoned??why??WHO was he??
I hear this whole topic is connected wit d SOVIETS?????
HELP ME SOME ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-02-17 09:13:30 · 9 answers · asked by DESPERADO!! 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The KGB was the umbrella organization name for the Soviet Union's premier security, secret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991.
The term KGB is also used in a more general sense to refer to the successive Soviet State Security organizations before 1954 (from the Cheka in 1917). The term KGB is also sometimes used in the British press to refer to the Russian FSB since 1991.
Roughly, the KGB's operational domain encompassed functions and powers like those exercised by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the counter-intelligence (internal security) division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency, the Federal Protective Service, and the Secret Service.
On the 21 December 1995, Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the decree that disbanded the KGB, to be substituted by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB). In Belarus, it is still KGB.
2007-02-17 09:23:20 · answer #1 · answered by zeenoo . 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
KGB was the intelligence/service secret Police of the former Soviet Union from 1954-1991. Alexander Litvichenko was an
ex-KGB Colonel poisoned by thallium/radiation in his system.
2007-02-17 10:08:49 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
KGB is Russian for CIA. -- thought the cold war, expionage and James Bond was over -- guess again. Just Google his name and you'll find several pages of info about Litvichenko, and the KGB too.
2007-02-25 09:17:20 · answer #3 · answered by pilot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Russian Spies in America that love their jobs.
2007-02-22 14:05:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Obviously you don't read the papers, news mags or pay attention to the news. And you expect US to bring you up to speed?
Do your own research on those subjects at google.com.
2007-02-18 08:07:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it stands for komitet gosudarstveny bezopasnost a committee for state secuity for the former ussr he was a russian spy that they thought was talking about stuff he wasnt suppose too so they poision him
2007-02-17 09:30:04 · answer #6 · answered by frank w 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe these will help, just click on them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko_poisoning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko
2007-02-17 09:27:40 · answer #7 · answered by junkmail 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's Putin's version of our own CIA.
2007-02-17 09:29:46 · answer #8 · answered by blogbaba 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
google news is your friend
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=kgb+litvinenko
2007-02-17 09:17:16 · answer #9 · answered by chumpchange 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋