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    The State Political Directorate (also translated as the State Political Administration) (GPU) was the intelligence service and secret police of the Russian...
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    The Joint State Political Directorate (JSPD) (OGPU; Russian: Объединённое государственное политическое управление, romanized: Ob"yedinyonnoye gosudarstvennoye...
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  • Russian Civil War, the Cheka were in power, relinquishing it to State Political Directorate (GPU) in 1922 after the fighting was over. The GPU was then renamed...
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  • Commissioner 1st rank of State Security Yakov Agranov. The Main Directorate of State Security evolved from the Joint State Political Directorate (or OGPU). On February...
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    State Political Directorate or OGPU. In July 1934, OGPU was reincorporated into NKVD of the Soviet Union, and renamed the Main Directorate of State Security...
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  • the Foreign Directorate (INU); political police represented by the Secret Political Department (SPO) became the Secret Political Directorate (SPU), and...
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    KGB (redirect from 15th Directorate)
    (контрразведывательное обеспечение объектов транспорта и связи)) 5th Directorate (Political police) 6th Directorate (Counter-Intelligence Support for the economy) (6-е...
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    NKVD (category Political repression in the Soviet Union)
    became Foreign Directorate (INU); GUGB political police unit represented by Secret Political Department (SPO) became Secret Political Directorate (SPU), and...
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  • People's Commissars of the USSR. OGPU – "Joint State Political Directorate" or "All-Union State Political Board" Dzerzhinsky (November 15, 1923 – July 20...
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    The Directorate of State Security (Albanian: Drejtoria e Sigurimit të Shtetit, DSSh) commonly called the Sigurimi, was the state security, intelligence...
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