Putin also set about appointing former KGB colleagues to high posts in government and business.
And Vladimir Putin, as we all know, was part of the KGB during that time period.
An Italian academic and a specialist on the KGB is now being held by British police.
Putin transferred what was left of their assets to his KGB friends, associates, and favored oligarchs.
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"Bond was never considered to be a serious film in the KGB, " says Mr Lyubimov, curtly.
One of Mr Putin's former KGB colleagues Nikolai Patrushev is now head of the FSB.
Nicolai B. was, for thirty years, a senior operative of the KGB, stationed in Riga, Latvia.
The KGB concentrated on the development of highly effective means to penetrate locks and safes.
If the intercepted KGB cables are to be believed, her guilt was never in question.
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Her definition includes not only the KGB, but also the military and other security forces.
KGB's old headquarters, which is mainly filled with tatty stalls selling products aimed at grown-ups.
The prime suspect for Mr Litvinenko's death is ex-KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi who was represented in court.
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Another topic of discussion was the ability of the KGB to derive the combination for a safe.
An ex-KGB officer himself, he headed the FSB until appointed Acting Prime Minister by Boris Yeltsin in 1999.
Mr Aliyev, a former KGB officer, has faced strong opposition in Azerbaijan for his authoritarian style of leadership.
His Teddy KGB is Russian in much the same way that Walt Disney's version of Geppetto is Italian.
And the ex-KGB lieutenant-colonel said he expects the planned 2, 550-mile Siberian pipeline to the Pacific coast to be completed.
Mr Yevkurov, a paratrooper, inherited a corrupt and weak government from his predecessor, a KGB general named Murat Zyazikov.
And Mr. Lukashenko is the only ex-Soviet leader to have proudly retained the name "KGB" for his security services.
Scaramella served with Litvinenko on an Italian parliamentary probe of alleged links between Italian politicians and the Soviet-era KGB.
Mugniyah is probably the most intelligent, most capable operative we've ever run across, including the KGB or anybody else.
He passed on an unprecedented amount of information to British security while serving as KGB bureau chief in London.
KGB-run but less exalted border guards before becoming manager of a chicken farm.
Moreover, the Soviet KGB and embassy presence reportedly continues as before in Czechoslovakia.
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This is where four KGB officers would sit each day, intercepting radio waves from Helsinki and sending cables to Moscow.
Mr Litvinenko, 43, was poisoned in London in 2006 - allegedly at a meeting with two Russian former KGB contacts.
Four British detectives are in Moscow as an investigation of the poisoning death of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko widens.
These are the words of the famous spy, Oleg Kalugin, a former KGB colonel who defected to the United States.
Ion Pacepa, the former head of the Romanian KGB, that the allegations against Pius XII were the brainchild of the KGB.
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He was among the first Western reporters invited into KGB headquarters for a rare inside look into the Soviet intelligence apparatus.
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