The Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty (Russian Cyrillic Комитет государственной безопасности), literally the Committee for State Security, was the chief espionage agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. The KGB was responsible for all espionage and counter-espionage activities, essentially acting as a combined unit equal to the CIA and FBI in the United States, or a combination of MI5 and MI6 in the United Kingdom

KGB agents appear in many Bond films; sometimes as allies, other times as enemies, but often as neutral parties. The KGB is first mentioned in From Russia with Love, where both Bond and S.P.E.C.T.R.E. are attempting to outwit the KGB agents protecting the Lektor Decoding Machine.

The KGB agent XXX (Major Anya Amasova) was an ally in the film The Spy Who Loved Me.