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Also Known As	Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
Date	1954 - 1991
Headquarters	Moscow
Areas Of Involvement	intelligence
Related People	Vladimir Putin • Vladimir A. Kryuchkov • Heydar Aliyev • Boris Pugo • Yevgeny Primakov • Alexander Litvinenko • Kim Philby • Yury Andropov • Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin

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