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KGB formed
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First Chairman: Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov
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Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The KGB had a massive victory on behalf of the solviet union in which there was a nationwide revolt against the Hungairian government -
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Second Chairman: Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin
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Third Chairman: Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny
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Fourth Chairman: Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov
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Operations in Bangladesh
A Banledesh commounist party demanded that KGB members pursuade the country, at the time the party had no chance of winning.
Later on, in 1979 The KGB would print newspaper articles outlining that the countries current leader Ziaur Rahman had close ties with the United States in an attempt to overthow his government. -
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Fifth Chairman: Vitali Vasilyevich Fedorchuk
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Sixth Chairman: Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov
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Seventh Chairman: Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov
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August 1991 coup
Members of the KGB including chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov formed the State Committee on the State of Emergency and attempted to overthrow the government of the Soviet Union. -
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Last Chairman: Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin
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KBG Dissolved
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FBI agent Robert Hanssen jailed
Robert Hassen was a counterspy for the FBI and KGB and operated from 1979 till he was caught in 2001, and is serving 15 consecutive life sentences for espionage.