Template:Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies

Chronology of Soviet
security agencies

1917–22

Cheka of the Sovnarkom of the RSFSR
(All-Russian Extraordinary Commission)

1922–23

GPU of the NKVD of the RSFSR
(State Political Directorate)

1923–34

OGPU of the Sovnarkom of the USSR
(Joint State Political Directorate)

1934–41
1941–43

NKVD of the USSR
(People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs)

1941
1943–46

NKGB of the USSR
(People's Commissariat for State Security)

1946–53

MGB of the USSR
(Ministry of State Security)

1953–54

MVD of the USSR
(Ministry of Internal Affairs)

1954–91

KGB of the Council of Ministers of the USSR
(Committee for State Security)