People's Commissariat For State Security - NKGB Tasking

NKGB Tasking

Based on NKVD and NKGB directive number 782/B265M, from March 1, 1941, the NKGB tasks were:

• Conducting intelligence activities abroad;
• Battling espionage (on both fronts: counter and offensive);
• Battling sabotage and terrorist acts organized by foreign Special Services on USSR territory;
• The penetration, and liquidation, of anti-Soviet parties and counter-revolutionary organizations;
• Overseeing ideology in Soviet society;
• The protection of high party and government officials.