KGB
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The KGB is the Russian abbreviation for Комитет государственной безопасности or Committee for State Security, which was the official name of the umbrella organization serving as the Soviet Union's premier security agency, secret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991.
The KGB's operational domain encompassed functions and powers like those exercised by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency, the counter-intelligence division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency, the Federal Protective Service, and the Secret Service in the United States, or by the twin organizations MI5 and Secret Intelligence Service in the United Kingdom.
On December 21, 1995, the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin signed the decree that disbanded the KGB, which was then substituted by the FSB, the current domestic state security agency of the Russian Federation.
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[edit] Operation Snake Eater
During the events of the Virtuous Mission, KGB guards were sent to the Nikolai Stephanovich Sokolov's design bureau to guard him from approaching GRU unit soldiers, led by Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin. Naked Snake managed to infiltrate the guard shack where Sokolov was being held, but was ambushed by KGB troops as he made his exit. Ironically, Snake was "saved" by GRU major Ocelot, who then went on to murder the KGB troops and attempt to take Sokolov for himself. Snake defeated the Ocelot Unit and escaped, only to then be captured by The Boss, Volgin, and the Cobra Unit.
Then, on the return mission of Operation Snake Eater, Khruschev allowed the FOX unit to use one of their communication satellites, allowing Major Zero and the rest of the command squad to communicate with Snake while he was on the mission. They also set up Snake to meet with one of the NSA codebreakers that defected to the Soviet Union, ADAM. Unknown to Snake, Volgin and the KGB itself, ADAM was actually Ocelot, who was working under direct orders from not only the KGB to infiltrate Colonel Volgin's ranks in the GRU, but also the CIA, to secure Volgin's sum of the Philosophers' Legacy. Despite Snake's arrival at the meeting point on time, Ocelot had not arrived yet, and his escort of KGB troops were killed by Chinese Philosopher agent EVA, who then assumed the role of the codebreaker sent to help Snake, unbeknownst to all. Ocelot decided to lay low and let EVA do the job he was originally sent to do, while he acquired half of the Legacy for the CIA, keeping the other half for himself in secret.
