"The Americans" spy grp

• Putin's former employer
• Spy org. that split up in 1991
• Russian C.I.A.
• Clandestine gp
• CIA's Cold War counterpart
• CIA Cold War opponent
• CIA Cold War foe
• A successor to 46 Across
• U.S.S.R. spy group

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The KGB , an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (, translated in English as Committee for State Security ), was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991. Formed in 1954, as a direct successor of ...