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

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Central Intelligence Agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration Federal Bureau of Investigation National Security Agency MI6 Mossad U.S. Secret Service U.S. Department of Defense Environmental Protection Agency Indian Space Research Organisation

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