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State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus

Coordinates: 53°53′56″N 27°33′16″E / 53.89889°N 27.55444°E / 53.89889; 27.55444
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Crest of the Belarusan State Security Committee

The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus ([Камітэт дзяржаўнай бяспекі, КДБ; translit. Kamitet Dziaržaǔnaj Biaspieki, KDB] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help), [Комитет государственной безопасности, КГБ; translit. Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, KGB] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) is the national intelligence agency of Belarus. It is the only intelligence agency that kept the Russian name "KGB" after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, albeit translated into Belarusian. (The "Special Riot Police," however, are still called OMON.)

It is the Belarusian successor organization to the KGB of the Soviet Union. Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, who founded the Cheka – the original Bolshevik intelligence police – was born in what is now Belarus and remains a national hero.

Major General Vadim Zaitsev, who was in charge of Lukashenko's personal security, was appointed its leader in July 2008. The KGB is formally controlled by the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.

KGB headquarters in Minsk.

53°53′56″N 27°33′16″E / 53.89889°N 27.55444°E / 53.89889; 27.55444


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