Committee for State Security of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

The Committee for State Security of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (KGB of the BSSR; Belarusian: Камітэт дзяржаўнай бяспекі Беларускай ССР; Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности Белорусской ССР) was the main state security organization in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.

[1] In the early 20th century, the Russian Cheka led by Felix Dzherzhinsky began operating on Belarusian land.

On 1 March 1922, under the auspices, Central Executive Committee of the BSSR, a State Political Directorate is formed.

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the KGB's predecessor agency, was in the mid-1950s involve in mant Stalinist purges around the country, especially on Belarus.

On 19 May 1954, the Soviet government in Belarus made the decision to form a republican affiliate of the KGB, led by Alexander Perepelitsyn.