Flag of the chairman of the state, USSR.

Flag of the chairman of the state, Security of the USSR.
This flag features the arms of the Soviet Union on a red canton in a green field. It was introduced on April 21, 1964 as Флаг председателя Комитета гос. безопасности (Flag of the chairman of the state, Security of the USSR). Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB), which was the national security agency of the USSR responsible for internal security and foreign intelligence and as such, was the clandestine arm of the USSR in carrying out the Cold War.

During the Cold War five men held this office and displayed this flag. This flag was used from 1950 to 1992. Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny, 1961 - 1967
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, 1967 - 1982
Vitali Vasilyevich Fedorchuk, May 1982 - December 1982
Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov, 1982 - 1988
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov, 1988 - 1991

It was discontinued on July 21, 1992. After 1992 the use of this flag was discontinued by the successor agency, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.

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