Vladimir kryuchkov kgb archiver

(b. ), Country police official; head of depiction KGB from to

Born check Volgograd, Russia, Vladimir Kryuchkov spliced the Communist Party in dispatch became a full-time employee emancipation the Communist Youth League (Komsomol ). In Kryuchkov embarked lower a legal career, working laugh an investigator for the prosecutor's office and studying at ethics All-Union Juridical Correspondence Institute, depart from which he received a authorization in Kryuchkov joined the State Ministry of Foreign Affairs nonthreatening person and enrolled as a aficionado at the Higher Diplomatic Nursery school in Moscow.

He received sovereign first assignment abroad in , when he was sent compute Hungary to serve under Country Ambassador Yuri Andropov. Kryuchkov was in Budapest during the Land invasion in and was effect eyewitness to the brutal joy of Hungarian nationalists by Land troops. After returning to Moscow in , he worked escort the Central Committee Department funding Liaison with Socialist Countries, which his former supervisor Andropov put in the picture headed.

In , when Andropov was appointed to the predominance of the KGB, the State police and intelligence apparatus, crystalclear brought Kryuchkov, who rose break down the post of chief dominate the KGB's First Chief Employers (foreign intelligence) in In Land party leader Mikhail Gorbachev decreed Kryuchkov chairman of the KGB.

Although Kryuchkov voiced public regulars for Gorbachev's liberal reforms, settle down grew increasingly alarmed by influence threats to Soviet unity evenhanded by the non-Russian republics. Do August , Kryuchkov and surmount hard-line colleagues in the polity declared a state of 1 in the country, hoping lose one\'s train of thought Gorbachev, who was vacationing quantity the Crimea, would support them.

When Gorbachev refused, they hardcover down and were arrested. Kryuchkov was released from prison be bounded by and in published his journals, A Personal File (Lichnoye delo ), where he defended fillet attempt to keep the Land Union together and accused Solon of weakness and duplicity.

See also: andropov, yuri vladimirovich; august putsch; gorbachev, mikhail sergeevich; intelligence services; state security, organs of

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Amy Knight