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Vadim Alekseyevich Kirpichenko Вадим Алексеевич Кирпиченко KGB First Chief Directorate deputy who ran Soviet foreign intelligence for twelve years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1922–2005
Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov Виктор Михайлович Чебриков KGB chairman from late stagnation into perestroika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1923–1999
Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny Владимир Ефимович Семичастный The KGB chairman during Khrushchev’s fall Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1924–2001
Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov Владимир Александрович Крючков The KGB chairman who designed the August coup Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1924–2007
Vladimir Petrovich Pirozhkov Владимир Петрович Пирожков The KGB constant: 20 years as deputy chairman under four chiefs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1924–2009
Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov Юрий Иванович Дроздов Legendary Soviet spymaster who headed KGB illegal intelligence for 12 years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1925–2017
Filip Denisovich Bobkov Филипп Денисович Бобков Architect of KGB ideological counterintelligence, 45-year Chekist under 12 chiefs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1925–2019
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov Евгений Максимович Примаков The Arabist premier who turned his plane around over the Atlantic Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1929–2015
Viktor Fyodorovich Grushko Виктор Фёдорович Грушко The KGB operational deputy who bridged foreign intelligence and counterintelligence Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1930–2001
Yuri Sergeyevich Plekhanov Юрий Сергеевич Плеханов From KGB eavesdropping chief to head of leadership security, the man who pulled the coup's trigger Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1930–2002
Alexander Vladimirovich Vlasov Александр Владимирович Власов Creator of OMON and the last communist prime minister of Russia, defeated by Yeltsin Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1932–2002
Oleg Danilovich Kalugin Олег Данилович Калугин Youngest KGB general turned its highest-ranking defector-critic Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1934–
Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin Леонид Владимирович Шебаршин Last chief of Soviet foreign intelligence Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1935–2012
Boris Karlovich Pugo Борис Карлович Пуго From Latvian KGB chief to USSR interior minister, a guardian of order shattered in the coup he backed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1937–1991
Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin Вадим Викторович Бакатин The last KGB chairman, appointed to dismantle it Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1937–2022
Nikolai Mikhailovich Golushko Николай Михайлович Голушко The last chairman of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR, who went on to serve the security services of three states: USSR, Ukraine, and Russia Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1937–2025
Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky Олег Антонович Гордиевский The highest-ranking KGB officer to defect, and the key source on the 1983 war scare Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1938–2025
Genrikh Lyushkov Генрих Люшков Far East NKVD chief, the highest-ranking defector Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900/1902–1945
Mikhail Kozlovsky Михаил Козловский KGB security officer who commanded border troops under Andropov Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union ?–?
Pang Hak-se Пан Хак Се Founder of North Korea's state security and enforcer of its political repression Security, intelligence and policing · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ?–1992

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