The Sword and the Shield

^{APPENDIX A} KGB CHAIRMEN, 1917-91

Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky 1917-26 (Cheka/GPU/OGPU)

Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky 1926-34 (OGPU)

Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda 1934-6 (NKVD)

Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov 1936-8 (NKVD)

Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria 1938-41 (NKVD)

Vsevelod Nikolayevich Merkulov 1941 (February-July) (NKGB)

Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria 1941-3 (NKVD)

Vsevelod Nikolayevich Merkulov 1943-6 (NKGB/MGB)

Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov 1946-51 (MGB)

Semyon Denisovich Ignatyev 1951-3 (MGB)

Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria 1953 (March-June) (MGB)

Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov 1953-4 (MGB)

Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov 1954-8 (KGB)

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin 1958-61 (KGB)

Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny 1961-7 (KGB)

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov 1967-82 (KGB)

Vitali Vasilyevich Fedorchuk 1982 (May-December) (KGB)

Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov 1982-8 (KGB)

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov 1988-91 (KGB)

Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin 1991 (August-December) (KGB)