Главное управление государственной безопасности

  • The Main Directorate of State Security
  • Glavnoe Upravlenie Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti
  • ГУГБ
  • GUGB
Identifier
001387
Dates
1934-1943
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

History

The Main Directorate of State Security was the name of the Soviet intelligence service, secret police from July 1934 to April 1943. It was run under the auspices of the Peoples Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD).

Places

  • Soviet Union

Sources

  • Kern, Gary, A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror, New York, 2004.