The flag of the Soviet Union.
The KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti or Committee For State Security) was the intelligence service of the Soviet Union, of which Russia was a member, on Earth during the 20th century.They were known for their secretive and underhanded tactics, and often quoted as an example of an agency with dangerous overreach of powers.
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"Diana Winter" was a deep-cover KGB agent who, prior to 1968, infiltrated the United States' Project Hercules, and attempted to sabotage the experimental enhanced fusion bomb before being stopped by Gary Seven. (TOS - Star Trek: Assignment: Earth comic: "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns")
- The comic erroneously refers to this as the "KBG".
On 25 December 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved, and the KGB ceased to exist. (VOY episode: "Future's End, Part I")
James T. Kirk mused that the Patrian police telepaths of the "Mindcrime Unit" were worse than the KGB, CIA and Gestapo combined. (TOS novel: The Patrian Transgression)
In Julian Bashir's Secret Agent holoprogram, the character of Anastasia Komananov was an operative of the KGB. (DS9 episode: "Our Man Bashir")
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External links[]
- KGB article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- KGB article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.