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The chairman of the KGB was the head of the Soviet KGB.He was assisted by one or two first deputy chairmen, and four to six deputy chairmen. He was also the head of the Collegium of the KGB—which consisted of the chairman, deputy chairmen, directorate chiefs, and one or two republic-level KGB organization chairmen—who affected key policy decisions.
Jul 5, 1999 · Mr. Chebrikov was 76 years old. The service did not disclose a cause of death. He was chairman of the Committee on State Security, as the K.G.B. was formally known, from 1982 to 1988, and held the ...
- KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov to KGB Members, “The Results of the 26 Congress of the CPSU and Tasks for the Party Organization of the KGB,” March 25, 1981, Top Secret.
- KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov at the National Consultation Meetings of the Leadership and Members of the KGB, “On the Tasks of the KGB in Light of the Decisions of the 26 Congress of the CPSU,” May 25, 1981, Top Secret.
- Stasi Note on Meeting Between Minister Mielke and KGB Chairman Andropov, July 11, 1981, Highly Confidential.
- KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov to General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, "Report of the Work of the KGB in 1981," May 10, 1982, and Victor Chebrikov to General Secretary Yuri Andropov, "Report of the Work of the KGB in 1982," March 15, 1983.
May 15, 2015 · Directorate S, also known as the Illegals Directorate, was the elite of the KGB’s First Chief Directorate (Foreign Intelligence). Journalist Konstantin Kapitonov was able to interview one of its chiefs, Lt. Gen. Vadim Alekseevich Kirpichenko (1922-2005) about his time at the head of the Illegals Directorate during the 1970s.
Jul 6, 2006 · Victor Ivanovich Sheymov had reached the highest levels of the KGB, holding a post that gave him access to the secret police's most sensitive operations. But a directive in 1979 that hinted...
Apr 17, 2015 · The KGB’s most elite special missions unit, Vympel (Pennant), was finally established in August of 1981 within the 8 th Department of Directorate S. Maj. Gen. Yuri Drozdov, a veteran of the Illegals Directorate and its chief from 1979 until the end of the Cold War, characterized Department 8 as “nothing less than an information and research intelligence structure, which followed by ...
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Sep 12, 1985 · The chief of the Soviet KGB spy operation in London defected to the West and exposed a major espionage network, prompting Britain to expel 25 Soviets in the largest spy ouster in more than a ...