Back to the future? After the dissolution of the KGB, its Moscow headquarters housed the Federal Security Service (FSB), which is reported to be the center of a reconstituted superagency.
MOSCOW -- Russia plans to create a super security agency called the Ministry of State Security (MGB), the name once given to Josef Stalin's Soviet spy apparatus before it was renamed the KGB after his death, Kommersant newspaper reports.
The business daily's September 19 story is based on anonymous sources and could not be independently verified. The report has been neither confirmed nor denied officially, and President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, has declined to comment.
Speaking to RFE/RL, two leading experts on Russia's security services and a former KGB lieutenant colonel now in the opposition said variously that the reform was "entirely possible," "certainly plausible," and "very likely."
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Russian President Vladimir Putin Reportedly Planning Reforms to Effectively Resurrect KGB -- ABC News
Vladimir Putin Reviving The KGB? Russias's State Security Could Soon Mirror Soviet-era Service -- IBTimes
Russia 'to revive the KGB' after Putin wins biggest majority -- The Telegraph
Putin forms super-spy agency just like Stalin's -- The Times
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