State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus
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The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus (Belarusian: Камітэт дзяржаўнай бяспекі, КДБ, Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности, КГБ) is the intelligence agency of Belarus. It is the only intelligence agency that kept the Russian name KGB after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. (The "Special Riot Police," however, are still called OMON.)
It is the successor organization to the KGB of the Soviet Union. Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, who founded the Cheka (the original Bolshevik intelligence police), was born in what is now Belarus and remains a national hero.
Major General Vadim Zaitsev (who was in charge of Lukashenko's security) was appointed its leader in July 2008. The KGB is formally controlled by the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.
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Coordinates: 53°53′56″N 27°33′16″E / 53.89889°N 27.55444°E
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