GUGB

GUGB
(in the Soviet Union) the Chief Directorate for State Security, the government's secret police organization (1934-1941) functioning as part of the NKVD.
Also, G.U.G.B.
[ < Russ, for Glávnoe upravlénie gosudárstvennoi bezopásnosti]

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