Reviewed by Matthew J. In, the Soviet Union created the Committee for State Security (KGB) and, as the Cold War intensified, the service grew in capability and status, advancing the The documents of the collection represent the activities of territorial and local KGB organs fro m practically all geographic regions of the former Soviet Union. Jeremy R. Azrael. The central apparatus of the KGB functionally duplicated the activity of the principal department s of the Communist Party Central Committ