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...problems are more than budgetary. Since 1988 it has been conducting a public relations campaign in the Soviet media to eradicate its decades-old image as the repressive arm of the regime. KGB Chief Vladimir Kryuchkov depicts the agency as the lawful and benign upholder of justice, the supporter of perestroika as well as the country's first line of defense against domestic and foreign threats. KGB officials, for example, argue that the agency is the state's primary weapon against organized crime, and that as much as 80% of the agency's forces are engaged in the battle against...
...weeks ago, Kryuchkov turned on the charm as he debated with a delegation of Soviet legislators who want to transform the KGB headquarters in Dzherzhinsky Square into a memorial to the victims of Stalin. Referring to the mustard-yellow structure that houses the infamous Lubyanka prison and basement cells where countless innocent people were interrogated and shot, Kryuchkov declared that the KGB is undertaking its own reforms and that "from within its walls come truth, justice, fairness and honesty." While Kryuchkov may not be persuasive enough to revise history, Soviet citizens are amazed at how far the KGB has come...
...main nemesis, Yegor Ligachev, 68, stays on, but Western diplomats believe it suits the President to have a significant figure to his right as a counterweight to Boris Yeltsin on his left so he can bill himself as a middle-of-the-roader. Gorbachev promoted new KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, 65, and chief economic planner Yuri Maslyukov, 51. While both are considered supporters of perestroika, they are also veteran members of the party apparat, come from the same ideological mold as the men they replaced and give no hint of brilliance...
Promoted were KGB Gen. Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, who presided over a partial opening up of his secrecy bound agency, and economic planning chief Yuri D. Maslyukov...
Gorbachev continued to fill the ruling body with his own men, elevating the new KGB chief, Vladimir Kryuchkov, and the head of economic planning, Yuri Maslyukov, to full membership...