| English | Russian |
| ex-KGB man | бывший сотрудник КГБ (Mr Lebedev, an ex-KGB man like Mr Putin, has been seen as a liberal, unafraid to criticise the Kremlin. BBC Alexander Demidov) |
| former KGB | гэбэшник (Tanya Gesse) |
| KGB agent | кагебист (Anglophile) |
| KGB agent | кагэбистка (Anglophile) |
| KGB agent | кагэбист (Anglophile) |
| KGB agent | кагебистка (Anglophile) |
| KGB agent | кагэбэшник (Anglophile) |
| KGB crew | гэбэшник (Tanya Gesse) |
| KGB hood | кагэбэшник (And underneath it all, he was still a KGB hood. A KGB hood in a fancy English suit. D.Silva, The Defector Mikhail.Brodsky) |
| KGB-linked | действующий под крышей КГБ |
| KGB-linked | работающий в связке с КГБ |
| KGB man | сотрудник КГБ (Mr Lebedev, an ex-KGB man like Mr Putin, has been seen as a liberal, unafraid to criticise the Kremlin. BBC Alexander Demidov) |
| KGB operative | кагэбэшник (Andrew Goff) |
| KGB Resident | резидент КГБ (The Station Chief, also called Chief of Station, is the top U.S. Central Intelligence Agency official stationed in a foreign country who manages all CIA operations in that country, equivalent to a KGB Resident. The station chief is often a senior U.S. intelligence officer who represents the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in his or her respective foreign government, whose true name is known to the host nation and other intelligence agencies. WK Alexander Demidov) |
| KGB's successor agency | правопреемник КГБ (ФСБ) |
| KGB staffer | гэбэшник (Tanya Gesse) |
| KGB-trained | прошедший подготовку по линии КГБ |
| letter-coded file (A registry file in KGB intelligence agencies containing materials relating to counter-intelligence work, or to diplomatic, trade and other missions and Soviet establishments abroad, or scientific and other delegations traveling abroad from https://books.google.com/books?id=cKErBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA426&lpg=PA426&dq=liternoye+delo&source=bl&ots=Wgk0Bm27f2&sig=ACfU3U0x69wPbWJDUg3YVZZDdfhxPkO1nw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi398PLqbnjAhWYHc0KHdpRBpIQ6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=liternoye%20delo&f=false | литерное дело (Tanya Gesse) |
| once a KGB man, always a KGB man | бывших чекистов не бывает (4uzhoj) |
| the KGB | Комитет государственной безопасности |
| the KGB | КГБ |
| there is no such thing as a former KGB man | бывших чекистов не бывает (Charlie Rose: Somebody in Russia told me there is no such thing as a former KGB man. Once a KGB man, always a KGB man. 4uzhoj) |
