KGB
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KGB stands for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Russian), State Security Committee
Its in-house nickname for itself was "the organs of state," or "the Organs"
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[edit] Books about the agency and its predecessors
WWII
Cold War proper
How the Cold War Began, Beria, School for Spies: The ABC of How Russia's Secret Service Operates, Chekisty: A History of the KGB, KGB Today: The Hidden Hand, KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents, Sword and Shield: Soviet Intelligence and Security Apparatus, The Sword and the Shield: the Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union, Venona The World Was Going Our Way
Post-1991
The Main Enemy: the Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB, KGB: Death and Rebirth, Spies Without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors
Auto/biography
KGB: The Inside Story, The First Directorate, Spy Handler: Memoirs of a KGB Officer, On the Wrong Side: My Life in the KGB, A Time for Spies: Theodore Stephanovich Mally and the Era of the Great Illegals, Spymaster: The Highest-Ranking KGB Officer Ever to Break His Silence, Beria, Beria: My Father, Comrade J
[edit] Novels and films featuring KGB protagonists
Thrillers
Tass is Authorized to Announce, Seventeen Moments of Spring
Glasnost noir and/or Spy vs. Guy
The Man Called Kyril, A View from the Square, Nocturne for the General, The Man Who Lost the War, Moscow Rules, The Company of Strangers, The Sisters, Red King, White Knight
Also, Reilly: Ace of Spies's title character is Russian and it features Felix Dzerzhinsky as a relatively sympathetic character
[edit] People
Yuri Andropov, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Lavrenty Beria, "Sasha", Theodore Stephanovich Mally, Victor Cherkashin, Oleg Gordievsky, Vasili Mitrokhin, Oleg Kalugin, Sergei Tretyakov
