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Central Intelligence AgencyOn the 26th of July 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act into law. This legislation dissolved the Central Intelligence Group and…
KGBThe Committee for State Security emerged from the ashes of earlier Soviet security agencies on the 3rd of March 1954. Ivan Serov became its first chairman…
StasiThe Ministry for State Security began its existence on the 8th of February 1950. Wilhelm Zaisser served as the first Minister of State Security in East…
State Protection AuthorityIn 1945 the Budapest Department of State Political Police established its first office within the Hungarian capital. This unit operated as an external…
SAVAKTehran, 1957. A national security law officially birthed the Bureau for Intelligence and Security of the State. This agency would become known simply as…