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The '''Committee for State Security''', was the "Sword and Shield" of the Communist party of the Soviet Union.  While it's primary function was internal repression of people's basic rights, an external reconassiance divsion as it is called, or intelligence organization, also handled spreading the gospel of Marxist international workers revolution to overthrow exiting legitimate governments worldwide, or "the bourgeois order" as Marxists refer to it.

The '''Committee for State Security''' was the "Sword and Shield" of the Communist party of the Soviet Union.  While it's primary function was internal repression of people's basic rights, an external reconnaissance division as it is called, or intelligence organization, also handled spreading the gospel of Marxist international workers revolution to overthrow exiting legitimate governments worldwide, or "the bourgeois order" as Marxists refer to it.

During its existence the Committee had many names, finally adopting '''KGB''' in 1954 which was used until the dissolution of the Soviet Empire in 1992.  Historians and writers have often in retrospect used the name KGB to refer to all it's predecessor organizations going back to the founding of the Soviet Union.

During its existence the Committee had many names, finally adopting '''KGB''' in 1954 which was used until the dissolution of the Soviet Empire in 1992.  Historians and writers have often in retrospect used the name KGB to refer to all it's predecessor organizations going back to the founding of the Soviet Union.

==KGB in the US 1921-1943==

==KGB in the US 1921-1943==

While as a purely technical matter, the KGB was not the only organization seeking subversion and overthrow of legitmate government from the early days of the Workers Revolution.  [[Alger Hiss]] for example, was an agent of Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU) and not srtrictly speaking the KGB.  This has led to some confusion even today because technically Alger Hiss was not a KGB Agent, but rather a GRU Agent. Below is a table lising eight differenct Soviet intelligence entities operating in the United States between the period of 1921 and 1943.

While as a purely technical matter, the KGB was not the only organization seeking subversion and overthrow of legitimate government from the early days of the Workers Revolution.  [[Alger Hiss]] for example, was an agent of Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU) and not strictly speaking the KGB.  This has led to some confusion even today because technically Alger Hiss was not a KGB Agent, but rather a GRU Agent. Below is a table listing eight different Soviet intelligence entities operating in the United States between the period of 1921 and 1943.

*[[Comintern]]

*[[Comintern]]

*CPUSA '''secret apparatus'''

*CPUSA '''secret apparatus'''

*[[KGB]] "legals", i.e. KGB agents registered in the United States on valid visas, operating under a ''Rezident'' and illegally engaged in espionage. {For the purpose of discussion on this page, KGB is used to encompass all pre-1954 predecessor names conducting foreign intelligence, [[Cheka]] or [[VChK]] (1917-22), the [[Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie|GPU]] (1922-23), the [[OGPU]] (1923-34), the [[NKVD]] (1934-41, 1941-43), the [[NKGB]] (1941, 1943-46), the [[MGB]] (1946-47, 1952-53), the [[KI]] (1947-52), the [[MVD]] (1953-54), and the KGB (1954-91)}

*[[KGB]] "legals", i.e. KGB agents registered in the United States on valid visas, operating under a ''Rezident'' and illegally engaged in espionage. {For the purpose of discussion on this page, KGB is used to encompass all pre-1954 predecessor names conducting foreign intelligence, [[Cheka]] or [[VChK]] (1917-22), the [[Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie|GPU]] (1922-23), the [[OGPU]] (1923-34), the [[NKVD]] (1934-41, 1941-43), the [[NKGB]] (1941, 1943-46), the [[MGB]] (1946-47, 1952-53), the [[KI]] (1947-52), the [[MVD]] (1953-54), and the KGB (1954-91)}

*'''KGB "Illegals"'''; agents operating under "deep cover", maybe native born maybe immigrant, and operating under their own separate ''Rezident'', (or "Station Chief", to use an analagous CIA term).

*'''KGB "Illegals"'''; agents operating under "deep cover", maybe native born maybe immigrant, and operating under their own separate ''Rezident'', (or "Station Chief", to use an analogous CIA term).

*[[GRU]], Soviet Military Intelligence (under its own ''Rezident'').

*[[GRU]], Soviet Military Intelligence (under its own ''Rezident'').

*'''Soviet Naval GRU''', had a very small operation in the U.S. during World War II

*'''Soviet Naval GRU''', had a very small operation in the U.S. during World War II