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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.
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 organization.
At the July 1920 Second Congress of the Communist International [[Comintern]], General Secretary of the Communist Party [[V.I. Lenin]] told delegates "we must everywhere build up a parallel illegal organisation". [http://ciml.250x.com/archive/comintern/termsadm.html]
==KGB in the US 1921-1943==
While as a purely technical matter, the KGB was not the only organization sseking 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 strictly and technically speaking, Alger Hiss was not a KGB Agent, he was 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.
*[[Comintern]]
*[[CPUSA]]; (although CPUSA membership was legal among ''certain'' people at ''certain'' times, membership among government employees and employees of government contractors involved in the war effort, or "defense contractors relating to National Security", to use post-1947 terminology, was clearly illegal.
*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 "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).
*[[GRU]], Soviet Military Intelligence (under its own ''Rezident'').
*'''Soviet Naval GRU''', had a very small operation in the U.S. during World War II
*'''GRU "Illegals"''', again, like KBG illegals, with its own ''Rezident''.
==Illegals==
Illegals are parallel organizations set up independently from the two main intelligence organizations (KGB & GRU), under their own separate station chief, or ''Rezident'', for the contingent purpose should a break in diplomatic relations occur, and all legal operatives with valid passports are expelled, a parallel espionage organization remains in place. Also, they still may be engaged in highly secret ongoing activities, and their absolute highest concern is to avoid detection. They are "[[Sleeper_agent#Sleeper_Agents_in_Espionage|sleeper cells]]", to use a term recently popularized by American news organizations.
==External link==
V.I. Lenin, ''Terms of Admission into Communist International'' (July, 1921) "must everywhere build up a parallel illegal organisation"[http://ciml.250x.com/archive/comintern/termsadm.html]
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 organization.
At the July 1920 Second Congress of the Communist International [[Comintern]], General Secretary of the Communist Party [[V.I. Lenin]] told delegates "we must everywhere build up a parallel illegal organisation". [http://ciml.250x.com/archive/comintern/termsadm.html]
==KGB in the US 1921-1943==
While as a purely technical matter, the KGB was not the only organization sseking 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 strictly and technically speaking, Alger Hiss was not a KGB Agent, he was 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.
*[[Comintern]]
*[[CPUSA]]; (although CPUSA membership was legal among ''certain'' people at ''certain'' times, membership among government employees and employees of government contractors involved in the war effort, or "defense contractors relating to National Security", to use post-1947 terminology, was clearly illegal.
*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 "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).
*[[GRU]], Soviet Military Intelligence (under its own ''Rezident'').
*'''Soviet Naval GRU''', had a very small operation in the U.S. during World War II
*'''GRU "Illegals"''', again, like KBG illegals, with its own ''Rezident''.
==Illegals==
Illegals are parallel organizations set up independently from the two main intelligence organizations (KGB & GRU), under their own separate station chief, or ''Rezident'', for the contingent purpose should a break in diplomatic relations occur, and all legal operatives with valid passports are expelled, a parallel espionage organization remains in place. Also, they still may be engaged in highly secret ongoing activities, and their absolute highest concern is to avoid detection. They are "[[Sleeper_agent#Sleeper_Agents_in_Espionage|sleeper cells]]", to use a term recently popularized by American news organizations.
==External link==
V.I. Lenin, ''Terms of Admission into Communist International'' (July, 1921) "must everywhere build up a parallel illegal organisation"[http://ciml.250x.com/archive/comintern/termsadm.html]