KGB files
Cold War intelligence
KGB files are intelligence records from the Soviet Union's main security agency, which operated from 1954 to 1991.
The term typically refers to documents that have surfaced since the USSR's collapse—surveillance reports, informant lists, interrogation transcripts, and operational records.
References to KGB files often carry implications of secrets revealed or Cold War intrigue: The KGB files confirmed he had been an informant.
- double agentSpy betraying their side
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- red scareMass anti-communist hysteria
- dossierFile of personal information
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
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