Committee for State Security


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Noun1.Committee for State Security - formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet RussiaCommittee for State Security - formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia
Russian agency - an administrative agency of the Russian government
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Besides other assignments I had in Mexico City, for the CIA, which is well documented in my biographies and autobiographies, a CIA agent in Mexico City tasked me among other assignments, with investigating whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone or had accomplices - including the backing of sub-national organisations such as the Mafia or international organisations such as the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti translated into English as Committee for State Security (KGB)," he wrote.
Three of the candidates for president, which the Central Election Commission admitted to the race, have been associated with the former Committee for State Security, reported Desebg.com.
He was received with an official welcome from state government officials namely the governor Abdul-Wahid Youssef and members of the committee for state security.
Earlier, the National Committee for State Security reported about the detection of corruption schemes in the central customs, while importing the Emirate of Service goods, Deputy Director of the central customs was taken into custody.
Anyone who served in Moscow in the old days will be familiar with the work of the Committee for State Security, commonly known as the KGB, one of whose tasks it was to keep track of foreign diplomats and what they were doing in the Soviet Union.

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