SYSTEM NADZORU ZEWNĘTRZNEGO NAD FUNKCJONOWANIEM WYWIADU ZAGRANICZNEGO KOMITETU BEZPIECZEŃSTWA PAŃSTWOWEGO (PRZY RADZIE MINISTRÓW) ZSRR W LATACH 1954–1991
SYSTEM OF EXTERNAL OVERSIGHT OVER THE FUNCTIONING OF FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE OF THE STATE SECURITY COMMITTEE (ATTACHED TO THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS) OF THE USSR IN THE YEARS FROM 1954 TO 1991

Summary/Abstract: The Article presents the scope and structures responsible for implementing the external oversight over the functioning of foreign intelligence of the State Security Committee (attached to the Council Ministers) of the USSR in the years from 1954 to 1991. In addition to discussing the role of the First (General) Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the official „custodian” on behalf of the Secretariat of the CC there are also characterized the functions and internal organization of these departments of the Central Committee, which belonged to the system of oversight of the KGB intelligence: Administrative Organs, International, Liaison with the Communist and Workers Parties of the Socialist Countries, International Propaganda and Cadres Abroad. There are also presented their staffing personnel. The fundamental source base are the reports of the U.S. Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency from the years 1960–1989 on the structure, staffing, and address data of all the supreme and central organs of the party and states of the USSR, supplemented by (available for several years on the Internet), fragmentary reports of the CIA with respect to this problem. There also is used the official collection of documents published in the Russian Federation, biographies of high officials of the KGB, as well as the established there in 2008, website includes an impressive collection of data on the history of the Russian and Soviet Communist Party from the years 1898–1991.

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