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Agent provocateur and KGB

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Difference between Agent provocateur and KGB

Agent provocateur vs. KGB

An agent provocateur (French for "inciting agent") is a person who commits, or who acts to entice another person to commit an illegal or rash act or falsely implicate them in partaking in an illegal act. The KGB, an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (p), translated in English as Committee for State Security, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991.

Similarities between Agent provocateur and KGB

Agent provocateur and KGB have 6 things in common (in Unionpedia): Federal Bureau of Investigation, Informant, Operation Trust, Secret police, State Political Directorate, United States.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Informant

An informant (also called an informer) is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency.

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Operation Trust

Operation Trust (операция "Трест") was a counterintelligence operation of the State Political Directorate (GPU) of the Soviet Union.

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Secret police

The term secret police (or political police)Ilan Berman & J. Michael Waller, "Introduction: The Centrality of the Secret Police" in Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), p. xv.

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State Political Directorate

The State Political Directorate (also translated as the State Political Administration) (GPU) was the intelligence service and secret police of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) from February 6, 1922 to December 29, 1922 and the Soviet Union from December 29, 1922 until November 15, 1923.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Agent provocateur and KGB Comparison

Agent provocateur has 59 relations, while KGB has 246. As they have in common 6, the Jaccard index is 1.97% = 6 / (59 + 246).

References

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