CIA's Soviet counterpart
The crossword clue "CIA's Soviet counterpart" is answered by KGB, a 3-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
KGB
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the KGB answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for KGB
Every other clue in this collection answered by KGB, most used first.
- Old CIA foe - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Soviet spy org. - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- USSR spy org. - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Putin's former org. - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Cold War spy org. - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- USSR's CIA - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Where Putin put in time, once - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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