All-Russian Extraordinary Commission

All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
	Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия
Founded	5 December 1917
Dissolved	6 February 1922
Leader	Felix Dzerzhinsky

The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, also known as the Cheka or Vecheka, was the first Soviet intelligence agency, created by the Council of People's Commissars, and existed to combat counterrevolution and sabotage.^[1]

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↑ Joseph Stalin (1939). History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): 'The Bolshevik Party in the Period of Preparation and Realization of the October Socialist Revolution'. [MIA]

[1] Joseph Stalin (1939). History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): 'The Bolshevik Party in the Period of Preparation and Realization of the October Socialist Revolution'. [MIA]

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