USSR's CIA
The crossword clue "USSR's CIA" is answered by KGB, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2013. It appears in 2 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 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2013. It appears in 2 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
- CIA's Soviet counterpart - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Where Putin put in time, once - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- CIA forerunner - OSS, used 180 times
- CIA predecessor - OSS, used 105 times
- CIA precursor - OSS, used 55 times
- CIA operative - SPY, used 43 times
- CIA relative - NSA, used 15 times
- CIA operative - AGT, used 13 times
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