Committee for State Security (KGB)

KGB Officers in a mission, Volume 5: Operation Fallen Eagle

The **Committee for State Security (KGB)** (Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ) is the main security and intelligence agency of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, serving as the nation’s leading spy and internal security force. The KGB is under the Leadership of Internal Affairs Commissar Illya Kuryakin and under the direct supervision of Generalissimus Leon Gazi, who gives the KGB orders and missions to be executed. The KGB plays a key role in the events of Volumes 4-5 and is a driving force all throughout them.

## Foundation

### Early Beginnings

With the formation of the Soviet State on the 9th of January 2019, the KGB was established under the direct Leadership of Leon in order to protect the Revolution from internal forces by any means, including political repressions and mass arrests. However, the KGB kept a public image of being the Generalissimus’ bodyguard force to lay off suspicion regarding their role.

It was there where a young Illya Kuryakin would join the KGB and eventually rise up the ranks to become its Leader under the appointment of Leon himself. The early KGB, including Illya, would also play a role in the spread of the 2 Month Plan and growth of the Nation, something that was also conducted through espionage and foreign intelligence. The KGB would later go on to develop and grow, taking on higher control over both internal and external affairs, with the Militsiya and other sub-organizations taking on the bodyguard role. Prior to the Polish war, the KGB had already taken part in multiple operations for the advancement of the Soviet State and its own defence against external enemies.

## Overview

### Volume 4: Noreaga’s Dungeon

The KGB makes its first official appearance in Volume 4, where it is revealed that Joseph and Svoboda were promoted to it for their role in researching the crime scene. It is also there where Illya is introduced as its Leader and talks to the newly recruited officers about perms and how one can find his own. He then goes on to demonstrate the use of his own perm, and after seeing that they have no questions (with the exception of Heydar, who is watching and taking notes), they are dismissed to resume training.

Later on in the Kremlin, after making plans for Soviet control over Eastern Europe, Leon orders the new recruits to come in and informs them that they will be heading to Poland as part of a "diplomatic mission“, to which they comply by. The next day, they set aboard alongside Heydar and Grill, though only Joseph goes as Svoboda showed up late and Illya stayed in Moscow. The KGB then makes its appearance on a mass level in the end of the volume, where the crew calls for Leon and the rest of the agents to come and pick them up from the abandoned woods so they can resume the mission. It is there where Svoboda subtly foreshadows the events of the next comic and the KGB’s role in it.

### Volume 5: Operation Fallen Eagle

Alongside the Soviet officials, the KGB heads to Poland following the unfortunate crash that previously took place. It is likely that after that, an off-screen event took place where Leon told the KGB the details of the mission and gave them the orders that they would need to fulfil. Once they landed in Poland and the Soviet delegation was invited to dinner by Queen Anne, Leon signalled to the KGB that they would start their mission to infiltrate the Palace and capture the Royals.

Throughout the dinner, each agent is assigned an individual task either related with setting up explosives all over the palace, hijacking the communication devices (Joseph’s job), infiltrating the Polish ranks (Svoboda’s job), putting up a false act to fool the Polish officials in their interrogations or hiding in bushes and trees to prepare for the ambush. A series of presumed screw-ups take place all throughout the event that ultimately lead to the final event that would settle the plan’s completion. In the end, the mission is successful, with the palace being blown to bits, the nobles being cornered and all Polish forces being ambushed and wiped out. With their success, the KGB then ties up all the prisoners and loads them into trucks to carry on with the next step of the mission, however the plan is foiled when Faded unexpectedly rushes to rescue the Queen and runs off in the woods. With all prisoners loaded in the trucks, they rush off to hunt him down and recapture the Queen once and for all.

## Perms

The KGB plays an important role over the status of perms and their use. Its goal is to utilise the strange abilities that one can get through the nation’s toxic environment to create a sort of supersoldier force that can further the interests of the Soviet Union and complete its tasks with absolute efficiency. As a result, KGB officers go through frequent perm-related training sessions to strengthen and in some cases; discover their powers. As of now, Illya and Joseph are the only two confirmed perm users in the KGB.

## Members and Structure

* **Illya Kuryakin** (Peoples’ Commissar of Internal Affairs - Chairman of the KGB)
* Joseph Konstantin
* Ludvik Svoboda
* Many more officers