KGB

Origin: Russ K(omitet) G(osudarstvennoj) B(ezopasnosti), Committee of State Security

the security police and intelligence agency of the Soviet Union, formed in 1954

See KGB in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

The intelligence and internal security agency of the former Soviet Union.

Origin:

Origin: Russian

Origin: , from K(omitet) G(osudarstvennoĭ) B(ezopasnosti)

Origin: : komitet, committee

Origin: + gosudarstvennoĭ

Origin: : genitive of gosudarstvennyĭ, of the state

Origin: + bezopasnosti

Origin: , genitive of bezopasnost', security

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