Word: fedorchuk
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...dissident movement is in a very bad state. Mr. Andropov basically presided over the temporary demoralization of the movement. There's no doubt in my mind that if the dissident movement were to raise its head again, he wouldn't hesitate to crack down. The promotion of Mr. Fedorchuk, a professional KGB man, to chairman of the KGB, is an indication that you won't find any changes in that area--especially since Mr. Fedorchuk's track record has been purging dissidents...
...author of the crackdown, according to some Western analysts, is Vitali Fedorchuk, who replaced Yuri Andropov as head of the secret police last May. Fedorchuk, who won a reputation for harsh treatment of dissidents when he was the KGB's chief in the Ukraine, is believed to be more sensitive than his predecessor to police complaints that there is too much contact between Soviet citizens and the outside world...
...will be difficult for a man who has been in the sticks as long as Fedorchuk to take control of the KGB. Meanwhile, Fedorchuk will be kept under close supervision by the Central Committee Secretariat, perhaps by Andropov himself...
...replace Andropov as head of the KGB, the Central Committee chose Vitali Fedorchuk, 63, the first professional secret policeman to serve in that post since 1958. Fedorchuk joined the secret police in the Ukraine in 1939, and served in military counterintelligence during the war. Right after the war he was transferred to occupied Austria and Germany. Following his appointment as head of the Ukrainian KGB in 1970, his branch of the secret police gained a reputation for particularly brutal repression of dissidents and religious groups. Fedorchuk is now expected to be elevated to the Central Committee and possibly even...