Chelidze, Vladimir Evaf'evich, Private, Transcaucasus Railway Unit "Berija", NKGB

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Very nice indeed. The NKGB was a short-lived and often misunderstood (e.g., lumped together with the NKVD) foreign intelligence service that was "allowed" to exist by the Central Committee then re-subordinated under the wartime NKVD (in my opinion a slightly different organization than the prewar terror group), then separated again at the end of the war only to become a ministry when the "NKs" were reorganized. I'm not sure what sort of real authority the members of the NKGB had compared to later incarnations - the MGB and KGB, but it does get a little confusing trying to follow the changes and functions of the foreign intelligence services from the Cheka to the KGB. It is also quite interesting, from my point of view (and keeps me busy trying to reconstruct the process on my web page;)).

Good catch.:thumbsup

Phillip