GUGB

American

Or G.U.G.B.

(in the Soviet Union) the Chief Directorate for State Security, the government's secret police organization (1934–1941) functioning as part of the NKVD.

Etymology

< Russian, for Glávnoe upravlénie gosudárstvennoĭ bezopásnosti

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