[HIGHLIGHTS] “The goals, objectives, powers and management scheme were not publicly disclosed”: a historian of the special services - on the creation of the KGB

Oleg Khlobustov: State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR was created in 1954. The new special service was formed on the basis of the operational security units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

He says KGB officers showed highest operational skill, brilliantly carrying out large-scale operations that had a positive impact on the peaceful existence of the country. The most tragic and striking achievements of the KGB, as well as the most tragic failures, include the arrest of the commander of the Moscow Higher Border Command.