Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union head the KGB. He became KGB Chairman on 18 May 1967. On 3 July 1967, he made a proposal to establish a Fifth Directorate (ideological counterintelligence) within the KGB to deal with internal political opposition to the Soviet regime. The Directorate was set up at the end of July and took charge of KGB files on all Soviet dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In 1968, KGB Chairman Andropov issued a departmental order "On the tasks of State security agencies in combating the ideological sabotage by the adversary", calling for the KGB to struggle against dissidents and their imperialist
KGB (bar) venue in New York City by "New York" magazine, "The Village Voice", and others. The bar hosts several regular reading series which include: KGB (bar) KGB is a Soviet-era themed bar located in the East Village of New York City at 85 E. 4th Street, New York, New York 10003. Before its present incarnation, the second-floor venue was a speakeasy for Ukrainian Socialists who met behind its double-locked doors to hide their political affiliations from the rampant McCarthyism of the era. Since opening in 1993, the KGB Bar has become something of a New York City literary institution. Popular authors