KGB - Committee for State Security CSS USSR

KGB - Committee for State Security CSS USSR badge.
.The KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from- 13 March- 1954 until- 3 December- 1991
The agency was a military service governed by army laws and regulations, in the same fashion as the Soviet Army or the MVD Internal Troops. While most of the KGB archives remain classified, two online documentary sources are available. Its main functions were foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence, operative-investigative activities, guarding the state border of the USSR, guarding the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Soviet Government, organization and security of government communications as well as combating nationalist, dissident, religious and anti-Soviet activities.
.On- 3 December- 1991, the KGB was officially dissolved