Committee for State Security of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (

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:Комитет государственной безопасности Туркменской ССР) or KGB of TSSR was the

security agency A security agency is a governmental organization that conducts intelligence activities for the internal security of a nation. They are the domestic cousins of foreign intelligence agencies, and typically conduct counterintelligence to thwart other ...

of the

Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (, ; russian: Туркменская Советская Социалистическая Республика, ''Turkmenskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika''), also commonly known as Turkmenistan o ...

, being the local branch of Committee for State Security of the USSR. It was succeeded in September 1991 by the Ministry for National Security.

Chairmen

* Vasily Vaskin (April 6, 1954 - June 23, 1956) * Sergey Bannikov (August 3, 1956 - June 12, 1959) * Dmitry Pischulin (June 12, 1959 - January 18, 1965) * Leonid Korobov (January 18, 1965 - December 14, 1973) * Yakov Kiselev (December 14, 1973 - December 19, 1978) * Alexey Boyko (December 19, 1978 - May 21, 1988) * Petr Arkhipov (May 21, 1988 - March 25, 1991) *

Dangatar Kopekov Dangatar Abdyevich Kopekov ( tk, Dangatar Abdyeviç Köpekow; russian: Данатар Абдыевич Копеков) was a Turkmen general and the former Minister of Defense of Turkmenistan and the last Chairman of the Turkmen KGB. Early life ...

(March 25, 1991 - September 1991)

References

{{Regional KGB Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic KGB Law enforcement in Turkmenistan