Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies information
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Chronology of Soviet security agencies
1917–22
Cheka under Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission)
1922–23
GPU under NKVD of the RSFSR (State Political Directorate)
1920–91
PGU KGB or INO under Cheka (later KGB) of the USSR (First Chief Directorate)
1923–34
OGPU under SNK of the USSR (Joint State Political Directorate)
1934–46
NKVD of the USSR (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs)
1934–41
GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR (Main Directorate of State Security of People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs)
1941
NKGB of the USSR (People's Commissariat of State Security)
1943–46
NKGB of the USSR (People's Commissariat for State Security)
1946–53
MGB of the USSR (Ministry of State Security)
1946–54
MVD of the USSR (Ministry of Internal Affairs)
1947–51
KI MID of the USSR (Committee of Information under Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
1954–78
KGB under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (Committee for State Security)
1978–91
KGB of the USSR (Committee for State Security)
1991
MSB of the USSR (Interrepublican Security Service)
1991
TsSB of the USSR (Central Intelligence Service)
1991
KOGG of the USSR (Committee for the Protection of the State Border)
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There were a succession of Soviet secret police agencies over time. The first secret police after the October Revolution, created by Vladimir Lenin's decree on December 20, 1917, was called "Cheka" (ЧК). Officers were referred to as "chekists", a name that is still informally applied to people under the Federal Security Service of Russia, the KGB's successor in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
For most agencies listed here secret policing operations were only part of their function; for instance, the KGB was both the secret police and the intelligence agency.
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