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 Prison, Potsdam KGB Prison, Potsdam The KGB Prison at "Leistikowstraße 1" in the German city of Potsdam was a detention centre run by the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation, SMERSH. The building was originally built in 1916–18 by the Evangelical Ecclesiastical Benevolent Society ("Evangelisch Kirchlichen Hilfsverein") or EKH. After the Potsdam Conference in August 1945 about 100 houses in the "Nauener Vorstadt" quarter, which bordered on the New Garden, were cordoned off and renamed as Military Camp No. 7 ("Militärstädtchen No.7"). In this area were located the command centre of the KGB for Germany, which was housed in the former boarding school attended by