MOSCOW'S CHANGING OF THE GUARD AT THE K.G.B.

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2010
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• Publication Date: May 28, 1982
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NEW YORK TIMES
28 MAY 1982
Wrn vv s Changing of thdGuard at the
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' 1v V. Fedorchuk :.;alternati~eiy ~ _= the 9;_ Politburo;; . ~ ~ ~_
_to comprehend new trends and yearn-.
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yd s waseeN..Yaek~+..:: w aware of an impending. succession
quarrers,wneaasaeuiur oacsgzvuuu. `vt
information -on' the new , In Secur14 S4vi,vel3 years Y,
?'agency's ,
chairman, answered firmly, "No one In any event, the party hierarchy,
willgiveyouthatinionrlatiott.' ~.s:~ ~ '~..wliich moires all-I4ghappoiutments la,
Ok=aiiiia career offcer;'as-head of-' the Soviet intelligence and internal seY
the Soviet .Union's vast and "shadowy i . aurlty service, He Served with the
intelligencay , and: internal; security Soviet armed forces inWorld Warn.,
The anno cement. Wednesday oat em autd holds the raakof colonel gm
the selection of'a man who will now~1. : " ,tr~sYs., arj ~suy : s ~.
rangy among the, most powerful in the , : v General ?Fedomchuk Iwas"appointed
Soviet UrimerelysaidthatthePre~',j ?head of the KG.B. irt'the Ukraine in
sidium of.. the Supreme. Soviet. the ' July 19?e and. the following March, he
nominal bodq _maldn$ Cabiaietdevell ;was elected a member of the Ukraine
appointuaeats,, had made:;;Gerterat anparty'sCentralCommitttee? Local
Fedarchuk .the. cisai=uuan o-t...the security officials are often also in-
K.G.B., the agencywhose Russian in. chided In the, Politburos, =or ruling-
tials stand forCommlttee for State Se- party bodies, of the Soviet republics;
.and General Fedorchuk Joined the
While aaonymity is the rule among= Ukrainian politburo in l ebruary 1976.
Soviet leaders; 'most of. therm reach:' ,
their political Now that he has risen to tiro national
rmrtes that
give some measure of the m9,ti what:. level. ? he. -is also likely to become a
background ground-and that, for, =,_ ty chsiraien ,who were -, =w> teepra.
a es. overm theselectiohof chairs
the .first time "since 1958
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PartySoaghttolmuft-Control r-~t Gen: Viktor M..Chebrlkov - are
members eCne"t;" ST -
It was in 1958 that Nikita S 4 hru. Under the out agency ? shchev, then the Soviet deader, . ~,,, chair-
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placed Gen. Ivan S. Serov, a career ?.?:man, .Yuri V. Andropov; the K.G.B.J
officer, with Aleksandr. N. 'Shelepin. also had a voice in the national Polito
head of - the. -Young Communist burn It remains to be seen whether.
General. Fedorrhuk,, too, will be elegy
League: Ilse, appointment" was the vafed -t? the natiar's highest body by
first of a "des:denigned:to affirm vIrtueofhisnEwposition.,.
party control over the. secret police
and prevent it- from ever becoming a Although m=uch of General ' Fedor
power airucture_likely to rival the ~'_ chuk's career appears to have been
party.-,.- :i spent in the provinces rather than at.
It maybe that. after a quarter con- ; the center of power; the Ukraine is the
tury of : litical, s~ontrol,_. the Soviet: 'second most important Soviet repub.;
leadership is now confident that the lie, after the dominant Russian repub-
K.G.B. has become thoroughly used to-!,. ?lid, and the standing of the K.G.B. of-
the idea that the party is dominant1 fcewould reflect that significance,'
and that the direction, of the agency r ~. can again be left to a career officer. . i.. The general's 43 years of security:
It may also be that the aging men- service spanned the German occupa-.
hers of the ruling politburo, .wary of , , ?tion of the Ukraine in World War II,
upsetting their fragile power balance; frequent resurgence of Ukrainian na-:
by entrusting the powers of the agency , tionalismi Jewish emigration and the;
to one of their number, felt more se._ ..impact of Polish liberalization in the,
cure givitsg the post to a political out?j western Ukraine, where ethnic poles,
Sider. area significant minority
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