KGBist

plural KGBists

1. A member of the KGB.

   Shevchenko was feared by the tsar. Our party-czarists also fear him, why else did they bring in a mass of the soldiers and police, plus plainclothes KGBists to the hill in Kaniv on the anniversary date.

   1965 March 1, Supreme Ukrainian Liberation Council, transl., On Occasion of Pohruzhalsky’s Trial, [Langley, Va.]: Central Intelligence Agency, published 2007, page 5

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   The propaganda — of KGB origin within Dezinformatsiya, according to ex-KGBists, who ought to know — was made to dovetail and lend support to those confused Americans of pacifist persuasion, or to those who toyed with “capitulationist” sentiments[…].

   1981, Herbert I[ra] London, Albert L. Weeks, “Myth of Isolationism”, in Myths That Rule America, Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 117

   Here bohemians, students, poets, criminals, passersby, vendors of antiques, black marketeers, samizdat distributors, visitors to Leningrad and disguised KGBists mixed together and minded their own business.

   2001, Svetlana Boym, “St. Petersburg, the Cosmopolitan Province”, in The Future of Nostalgia, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, part 2 (Cities and Re-Invented Traditions), page 152

   Synonyms: KGBer