KGB agent
Kremlin intelligence officer
A KGB agent was an operative of the Soviet Union's intelligence and security apparatus, which existed from 1954 to 1991.
The term evokes Cold War espionage—spies, informants, and secret police conducting surveillance, interrogations, and covert operations.
The defector claimed he'd been a KGB agent for twenty years.
In contemporary usage, KGB agent often appears in discussions of Russian political figures with intelligence backgrounds.
- spyCovert information gatherer
- MoscowRussia's capital city
- KremlinMoscow's fortified government seat
- extraction teamGroup retrieving personnel from danger
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
Cold War · informant · handler · sleeper cell · secret police · interrogation · cipher · dead drop · brush pass · mole · covert · operative · espionage · secret service · infiltration · Soviet · iron curtain · counterintelligence
- spiesJames Bond, spy, Jason Bourne, Ethan Hunt, Austin Powers
- Soviet peoplecosmonauts, cosmonaut, commissar, commissars, Soviet leaders
KGB agentpolitical prisoner
Jailed for ideology
refusenik · defector · human rights activist · Solzhenitsyn · enemy of the state