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List of Soviet secret police agencies, the Soviet secret police agencies and their different names are as follows chronologically.

Note. For most items listed there the secret policy operations were only a part of their functions.

The first secret police after the Russian Revolution, created by Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky on December 20 1917, was called " Cheka" (ЧК). Officers were referred to as chekists, a name that is still applied to people under the FSB of Russia, the KGBs successor.

February 8 1922 Cheka becomes GPU, a section of NKVD.

In 1923 GPU changed to OGPU but remained under the auspices of the NKVD.

July 1934 (O)GPU renamed to GUGB. April 1943 NKVD divests itself of the functions of secret policing into the NKGB.

In 1946 all People's Commissariates are renamed to Ministries

MVD (Formerly NKVD, sans secret policing) and MGB (The formerly independent secret police) in March 5 1953 are merged into the MVD by Lavrenty Beria.

Beria is purged and the MVD divests itself again of the functions of secret policing. The again (As of March 13 1954) newly independent force becomes the KGB

Now after renames and tulmults, the KGB remains stable untill 1991.

After the State Emergency Committee fails to overthrow Gorbachev and Yeltsin takes over, General Vadim Bakatin is given instructions to dissolve the KGB.



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