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State Political Directorate
(GPU pri NKVD RSFSR)
Honorary Cheka-GPU agent badge (15th Anniversary of the Cheka foundation)
Agency overview
Formed
February 6, 1922; 102 years ago (February 6, 1922)
Preceding agency
Cheka
Dissolved
November 15, 1923; 100 years ago (November 15, 1923)
Superseding agency
OGPU
Type
Secret police
Headquarters
Lubyanka Square, Moscow
Agency executive
Felix Dzerzhinsky (1922–23)
Parent agency
Council of the People's Commissars
The State Political Directorate (also translated as the State Political Administration) (GPU) was the intelligence service and secret police of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) from February 6, 1922, to December 29, 1922, and the Soviet Union from December 29, 1922, until November 15, 1923.
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