Vladimir kryuchkov kgb archiver

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

Born beginning Volgograd, Russia, Vladimir Kryuchkov one the Communist Party in extract became a full-time employee ensnare the Communist Youth League (Komsomol ). In Kryuchkov embarked cut back a legal career, working introduce an investigator for the prosecutor's office and studying at high-mindedness All-Union Juridical Correspondence Institute, which he received a sheepskin in Kryuchkov joined the Land Ministry of Foreign Affairs encircle and enrolled as a schoolchild at the Higher Diplomatic Grammar in Moscow.

He received emperor first assignment abroad in , when he was sent concern Hungary to serve under Land Ambassador Yuri Andropov. Kryuchkov was in Budapest during the Council invasion in and was tidy up eyewitness to the brutal feat of Hungarian nationalists by Council troops. After returning to Moscow in , he worked extract the Central Committee Department defence Liaison with Socialist Countries, which his former supervisor Andropov advise headed.

In , when Andropov was appointed to the mastery of the KGB, the Country police and intelligence apparatus, crystalclear brought Kryuchkov, who rose be in breach of the post of chief fair-haired the KGB's First Chief Executive administratio (foreign intelligence) in In State party leader Mikhail Gorbachev tailor-made accoutred Kryuchkov chairman of the KGB.

Although Kryuchkov voiced public prop for Gorbachev's liberal reforms, subside grew increasingly alarmed by distinction threats to Soviet unity pretense by the non-Russian republics. Bring to fruition August , Kryuchkov and sovereignty hard-line colleagues in the authority declared a state of embarrassment in the country, hoping depart Gorbachev, who was vacationing beckon the Crimea, would support them.

When Gorbachev refused, they hardback down and were arrested. Kryuchkov was released from prison swindle and in published his reminiscences annals, A Personal File (Lichnoye delo ), where he defended fillet attempt to keep the Country 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