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KGB was created in 1917 based upon the Tsarist Security forces and was destined to protect the national security of the young soviet State.
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The KGB failed to rebuild most of its US illegal resident networks. Mainly because of the Second Red Scare (1947–57), McCarthyism, and the destruction of the CPUSA prevented recruitment.
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It is the abbreviation of Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, the Committee of State Security, charged with the preservation of state power and maintaining surveillance over the Soviet population from 1954 to 1991.
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Western estimates of KGB manpower have ranged from 490,000 in 1973 to 700,000 in 1986.
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From 1968 to 1988, the chief of this department, which probably had a staff of fifty to sixty employees, was Nikolai Savinkin.
