The last chairman of the KGB of the USSR Vadim Bakatin died

The last chairman of the State Security Committee (KGB) of the USSR Vadim Bakatin died in Moscow. He was 84 years old. This was reported by RIA Novosti.

Bakatin was born in Kiselevsk (Kemerovo region) in 1937. In the late eighties, he became the first secretary of the CPSU regional committee, and from there transferred to the post of Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR. In August 1991, he became the chairman of the KGB.

Bakatin led a special service for less than six months, trying to reform it in a liberal manner. Many divisions and management were withdrawn from the control of the committee, including intelligence, special communications and protection of state-owned persons. However, he was not completely dissolved, as proponents of more radical reforms suggested.

During the August coup of 1991, Bakatin opposed the State Emergency Committee. In December of the same year, he handed over to the USSR to the USSR technical documentation related to the installation and use of eavesdropping devices in the new building of the American embassy in Moscow. Many KGB officers considered this decision "betrayal."

"One of the most promising politicians of that period, and Gorbachev and Yeltsin saw his opponent and from here I believe that they substituted him with this building of the American embassy so that the whole people believe that Bakatin is a traitor. And he, in fact, would never have this, it was a indication of Gorbachev," said the speaker of the Council of the Supreme Council of the RMFSR Ramazan Abdulatipov.

After the completion of a career in the power structures of Bakatin, the Fund for Economic and Social Reforms "Reform" and the Investment Company "Vostok-capital".

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