KGBist

Noun

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
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   KGBer