| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:intelligence_officer 
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                                | gptkbp:country | gptkb:Soviet_Union 
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                                | gptkbp:dissolved | 1991 
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                                | gptkbp:founded | 1954 
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                                | gptkbp:fullName | gptkb:Komitet_Gosudarstvennoy_Bezopasnosti 
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                                | gptkbp:headquarters | gptkb:Lubyanka_Building,_Moscow 
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                                | gptkbp:motto | Loyalty to the Party, Loyalty to the Motherland 
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                                | gptkbp:notableAgent | gptkb:Kim_Philby gptkb:Markus_Wolf
 gptkb:Vladimir_Putin
 gptkb:Alexander_Litvinenko
 gptkb:Aldrich_Ames
 gptkb:Oleg_Gordievsky
 gptkb:Oleg_Kalugin
 gptkb:Vasili_Mitrokhin
 gptkb:Vladimir_Vetrov
 gptkb:Richard_Sorge
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableEvent | gptkb:Soviet–Afghan_War gptkb:Operation_Neptune
 gptkb:Operation_Storm-333
 gptkb:August_Coup_(1991)
 gptkb:Operation_Cedar
 gptkb:Operation_Danube
 gptkb:Operation_Farewell
 gptkb:Operation_INFEKTION
 gptkb:Operation_Kontakt
 gptkb:Operation_Luch
 gptkb:Operation_Monastery
 gptkb:Operation_Pandora
 gptkb:Operation_Progress
 gptkb:Operation_Shocker
 gptkb:Operation_Snow
 gptkb:Operation_Splinter_Factor
 gptkb:Operation_TPAjax
 gptkb:Operation_Trust
 gptkb:Operation_Tuman
 gptkb:Operation_Vostok
 gptkb:Prague_Spring_suppression
 gptkb:Operation_RYAN
 Chernobyl disaster response
 Afghan War involvement
 Berlin Wall security
 Cold War espionage
 Operation Barbarossa counterintelligence
 Soviet dissident surveillance
 Suppression of political dissent
 Surveillance of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
 Surveillance of Andrei Sakharov
 Surveillance of dissidents
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableFor | gptkb:Eighth_Chief_Directorate gptkb:Fifth_Chief_Directorate
 gptkb:First_Chief_Directorate
 gptkb:Second_Chief_Directorate
 gptkb:Seventh_Directorate
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableLeader | gptkb:Vladimir_Putin gptkb:Yuri_Andropov
 gptkb:Vladimir_Kryuchkov
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableOperation | gptkb:Operation_Trust gptkb:Operation_RYAN
 espionage in Western Europe
 espionage in the United States
 
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                                | gptkbp:parentOrganization | gptkb:Council_of_Ministers_of_the_Soviet_Union 
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                                | gptkbp:predecessor | gptkb:NKVD 
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                                | gptkbp:primaryUse | gptkb:law_enforcement gptkb:intelligence_gathering
 counter-intelligence
 state security
 
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                                | gptkbp:successor | gptkb:FSB gptkb:SVR
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Vladimir_Putin 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 4 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | KGB 
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