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The KGB (КГБ) is the commonly used acronym for the Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности (help·info) (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security). It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time. While most of the KGB archives remain classified, two on-line documentary sources are available.
Since breaking away from Georgia de facto in the early 1990s with Russian help, South Ossetia established its own KGB (keeping this unreformed name). The State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the Russian name KGB.
A 1983 Time magazine article reported that the KGB was the world's most effective information-gathering organization. It operated legal and illegal espionage residencies in target countries where a legal resident gathered intelligence while based at the Soviet Embassy or Consulate, and, if caught, was protected from prosecution by diplomatic immunity. At best, the compromised spy either returned to the Soviet Union or was declared persona non grata and expelled by the government of the target country. The illegal resident spied, unprotected by diplomatic immunity, and worked independently of Soviet diplomatic and trade missions, (cf. the non-official cover CIA agent). In its early history, the KGB valued illegal spies more than legal spies, because illegal spies infiltrated their targets with greater ease. The KGB residency executed four types of espionage: (i) political, (ii) economic, (iii) military-strategic, and (iv) disinformation, effected with "active measures" (PR Line), counter-intelligence and security (KR Line), and scientific–technological intelligence (X Line); quotidian duties included SIGINT (RP Line) and illegal support (N Line).
Actors: Damian Chapa (writer), Damian Chapa (actor), William Knight (actor), Art Roberts (actor), Damian Chapa (producer), Damian Chapa (director), Alison Lees-Taylor (actress), Carmen Perez (actress), Andray Johnson (actor), Natasha Blasick (actress), Kristoffer Kjornes (actor), Leslie Garza (actress), Leslie Garza (producer), Harwood Gordon (actor), Jesse Wang (actor),
Genres: Biography,Actors: Dionicio Castellanos (actor), Charles Ashenoff (actor), Oscar Gutiérrez (actor), Juventud Guerrera (actor), Adolfo Tapia (actor), Tom Howard (actor), Rafael García (actor), Leonardo Carrera (actor), Octagon (actor), Cibernético (actor), Todd Bradford (actor), Halloween (actor), Jerry Estrada (actor), José Mercado López (actor), Leon Negro (actor),
Genres: Sport,Actors: Jean Denis Römer (actor), Ingeborg Westphal (actress), Dieter Schleip (composer), Devid Striesow (actor), Axel Werner (actor), Dominik Graf (director), David Groenewold (producer), Stefan Gärtner (producer), Reiner Heise (actor), Michael Gerber (actor), Klaus Manchen (actor), Max Riemelt (actor), Jessica Schwarz (actress), Barbara Grupp (costume designer), Michael Klier (writer),
Plot: In April 1961, in Dresden, the teenager Siggi meets the aspirant poetess Luise in a park and falls in love with her. He befriends her husband, the womanizer worker Wolle, to be close to Luise. Siggi smuggles porcelain objects that belonged to his parents to West Berlin to sell and make money to go to a night-club with Wolle and his friends. Meanwhile, the totalitarian system increases the repression of the youngsters and Wolle is arrested by the dictatorial regime. Siggi publishes Luise's poems and she is arrested. Siggi assumes the blame to release Luise but when he is chased by the Stasi, he calls Luise to go with him to the West Germany. Luise promises to meet him but she would bring Wolle with her. On 13 August 1961, the German Democrat Republic begins building the Berlin Wall.
Keywords: 1960s, berlin-wall, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, cigarette-smoking, communism, dresden-germany, east-germany, german-democratic-republic, love-triangle, nightclubActors: Tim Rogers (writer), Tim Rogers (director), David Burke (actor), Dwight Gustafson (composer), Mary Anderson (miscellaneous crew), Dwight Gustafson (actor), Laura Stevenson (editor), John Magnuson (actor), Bob Jones Jr. (actor), Edward Panosian (actor), Robert Pratt (actor), Lonnie Polson (actor), Alice Cromley (actress), Ron Pyle (actor), Dewitt Jones (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Tim Rogers (writer), Tim Rogers (director), David Burke (actor), Dwight Gustafson (composer), Mary Anderson (miscellaneous crew), Dwight Gustafson (actor), Laura Stevenson (editor), John Magnuson (actor), Bob Jones Jr. (actor), Edward Panosian (actor), Robert Pratt (actor), Lonnie Polson (actor), Alice Cromley (actress), Ron Pyle (actor), Dewitt Jones (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Tim Rogers (writer), Tim Rogers (director), David Burke (actor), Dwight Gustafson (composer), Mary Anderson (miscellaneous crew), Dwight Gustafson (actor), Laura Stevenson (editor), John Magnuson (actor), Bob Jones Jr. (actor), Edward Panosian (actor), Robert Pratt (actor), Lonnie Polson (actor), Alice Cromley (actress), Ron Pyle (actor), Dewitt Jones (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Tim Rogers (writer), Tim Rogers (director), David Burke (actor), Dwight Gustafson (composer), Mary Anderson (miscellaneous crew), Dwight Gustafson (actor), Laura Stevenson (editor), John Magnuson (actor), Bob Jones Jr. (actor), Edward Panosian (actor), Robert Pratt (actor), Lonnie Polson (actor), Alice Cromley (actress), Ron Pyle (actor), Dewitt Jones (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Tim Rogers (writer), Tim Rogers (director), David Burke (actor), Dwight Gustafson (composer), Mary Anderson (miscellaneous crew), Dwight Gustafson (actor), Laura Stevenson (editor), John Magnuson (actor), Bob Jones Jr. (actor), Edward Panosian (actor), Robert Pratt (actor), Lonnie Polson (actor), Alice Cromley (actress), Ron Pyle (actor), Dewitt Jones (actor),
Genres: Drama,