Season 1 · Episode 10

The KGB

• Release date
• March 5, 1999
• Runtime
• 45 min

This episode focuses on the Komitet Gosudarstvennoe Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), the agency of the former Soviet Union responsible for state security from 1954 to 1991. KGB functions included counterespionage, foreign intelligence collection and analysis, protection of land and maritime borders, control of nuclear weapons, and the Kremlin's guards.