Vadim Bakatin
| Vadim Bakatin Вадим Бакатин | |
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| Chairman of the Inter-republican Security Service of the Soviet Union | |
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In office 23 August 1991 – 15 January 1992 | |
| Premier | Ivan Silayev |
| Preceded by | Leonid Shebarshin |
| Succeeded by | Post abolished |
| Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union | |
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In office 20 October 1988 – 1 December 1990 | |
| Premier | Nikolai Ryzhkov |
| Preceded by | Alexander Vlasov |
| Succeeded by | Boris Pugo |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
6 November 1937 Kiselyovsk, Kemerovo Oblast, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Soviet/Russian |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin (Russian: Вадим Викторович Бакатин) (born 6 November 1937) is a former Soviet politician who served as the last chairman of the KGB in 1991. He is the last surviving former chairman of this organization. He was appointed to dismantle the KGB, but he was unable to control this organization and to fulfill the task [1] due to the political reasons.[2] He was able to fulfill plan of KGB disintegration into separate organizations.[3] He ran for the Russian presidency as an independent candidate in June 1991.
Early life and education
Vadim Bakatin was born in Kiselyovsk, Kemerovo Oblast in 1937. He is a graduate of the Novosibirsk Civil Engineering Institute and the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee.[4]
Career
From 1960 to 1971 Bakatin was supervisor, chief engineer, director of construction works. From 1964 to 1991 he was the member of the CPSU. From 1986 to 1990 he served as the member of CPSU Central Committee. Bakatin was appointed as Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union in 1988, replacing Alexander Vlasov.[5] Bakatin's tenure lasted until 1990. In 1991 he was made the head of KGB. Eventually he was able to disintegrate KGB, dismiss Forth Department of the Chief Directorate "З", Fifth Chief Directorate, the actual political police apparatus that ran the secret informants, political dossiers, and dissident-hunting machinery.[6]
After disintegration of KGB he served as head of the Inter-republican Security Service of the Soviet Union.
In 1991 Vadim Bakatin as Chief of KGB revealed to the US ambassador Robert Schwarz Strauss the methods that had been used to install covert listening devices in the building that had been intended to replace Spaso House as the American embassy in Moscow. Strauss reported that this revelation was made out of a sense of cooperation and goodwill, with "no strings attached". Bakatin's action was met with harsh criticism, including allegations of treason[7] which finally were retracted.
In 1992 Bakatin was appointed vice-president and director of department of political and international relations of the international "Reforma" fund. Since 1997 Bakatin has been a director/advisor of Baring Vostok (Moscow).
Quotes
The traditions of chekism must be eradicated, must cease to exist as an ideology.[8]
References
- ↑ Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past, Present, and Future. 1994. ISBN 0-374-52738-5
- ↑ J. Michael Waller. Russia: Death and Resurrection of the KGB.
- ↑ J. Michael Waller. Ibid.
- ↑ "Soviet Union: Political Affairs" (PDF). JPRS. 12 December 1989. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
- ↑ Starov, Vadim. "MVD. The Ministry of Internal Affairs. Systema Spetsnaz". Retrieved 2016-04-27.
- ↑ J. Michael Waller. Ibid.
- ↑ Martin Ebon KGB: Death and Rebirth. Praeger Publishers. pp. 58-65, 1994, ISBN 978-0-275-94633-3
- ↑ J. Michael Waller Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today, Westview Press. Boulder, CO., 1994, ISBN 0-8133-2323-1
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| Preceded by Leonid Shebarshin |
Head of Soviet Committee of State Security 1991 |
Succeeded by office disestablished |
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