The KGB and its predecessors were not the highly disciplined professionals and successful managers Vladimir Putin and the numerous state-controlled media outlets want Russians to believe, according to a new book on the organization’s activities between 1917 and 1941. Instead, they were as roguish and criminal as any security service in history.
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A man walks past the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor to the KGB in central Moscow on Dec. 30, 2016.
