The Committee for State Security (Russian: Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti), known widely as the KGB, was the main intelligence agency of the Soviet Union from its establishment under Nikita Khrushchev in 1954 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. They carried out covert international missions in a role similar to that of their rivals, the United States' CIA and Great Britain's MI6.
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Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev established the Committee for State Security in 1954 upon becoming the leader of the Soviet Union, and his aim was to replace the NKGB, MGB, and Cheka in putting down anti-government activists, radical politicians, and foreign agents. They quickly became involved in world events and, similar to the United States' CIA, the KGB were responsible for covert activities across the world.
In 1967, the KGB investigated into a possible alien invasion of Earth, and launched a missile at a suspected alien mothership. Its remains crashed over San Francisco, where they had set up a base on the abandoned prison at Alcatraz. They also had bases in the underground tunnels of London, Mount Seiyuki in Japan, Tunguska in Siberia, and Solaris on the Moon. Their agent Ivan Oranchov tried to attack the alien Cryptosporidium 138 but failed and was killed in London, and Cryptosporidium destroyed all of the KGB's bases abroad.
In the summer of 1991, during President Mikhail Gorbachev's ongoing reform policies shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union, a group of KGB officers plotted to overthrow him in favor of a hardline communist. However their plan was foiled by Captain Maksim Rukov, a former spetsnaz officer transferred to the KGB's Department P, who discovered their conspiracy after being assigned to what he thought was a simple corruption case.
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