Committee on Human Rights in the USSR International Institute of Human Rights. It also became a member of the International Institute of Law. The Committee was kept under constant surveillance by the KGB. Head of the KGB Yuri Andropov wrote in a report to the Central Committee of 1 March 1973: "The anti-social activities of the so-called Human Rights Committee decreased in 1972 as a result of measures taken by the KGB. These measures included compromising Chalidze's reputation, stripping him of Soviet citizenship [during his visit to the United States], and inciting disagreement and dissension among the Committee's members and sympathisers, which led to Tverdokhlebov's resignation." According
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