State Political Directorate

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State Political Directorate

(GPU pri NKVD RSFSR)
Honorary Cheka-GPU agent badge (15th Anniversary of the Cheka foundation)
Agency overview
Formed	February 6, 1922; 102 years ago (February 6, 1922)
Preceding agency	Cheka
Dissolved	November 15, 1923; 100 years ago (November 15, 1923)
Superseding agency	OGPU
Type	Secret police
Headquarters	Lubyanka Square, Moscow
Agency executive	Felix Dzerzhinsky (1922–23)
Parent agency	Council of the People's Commissars

The State Political Directorate (also translated as the State Political Administration) (GPU) was the intelligence service and secret police of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) from February 6, 1922, to December 29, 1922, and the Soviet Union from December 29, 1922, until November 15, 1923.