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...followers on a final binge. In the former Soviet lands, law enforcement has handled cults in the old Russian way, with truncheons and bars. Some have been banned. Last year a court in Kiev gave prison terms to leaders of the White Brotherhood, including its would-be messiah, Marina Tsvigun...
According to reliable sources, Suslov had ordered KGB General Semyon Tsvigun to halt the investigations in an effort to shield Brezhnev. Thwarted and angry, Tsvigun is said to have killed himself. Following Suslov's death, the KGB resumed its inquiries and the scandals exploded...
DIED. Semyon Tsvigun, 64, first deputy chairman of the KGB and its highest ranking career officer. In 42 years with the Soviet security and intelligence forces, Tsvigun rose from provincial postings to the capital, where he was promoted to full general in 1978, and full member of the Central Committee in 1981. Tsvigun occasionally wrote for ideological journals, reflecting the official view that all dissents from official dogma were threats to state security and were "intrigues of imperialist intelligence...
...page pamphlet The Secret Front, printed in a 250,000-copy edition, Semyon Tsvigun, Andropov's chief aide, calls for "intensifying the people's vigilance" as a "guarantee that foreign agents will be exposed." Any American Soviet citizens may meet in the U.S.S.R. is likely to be a spy, the book asserts. According to KGB Policeman Tsvigun, the 90,000 American tourists who visited the Soviet Union last year were obliged to submit a written report to U.S. authorities on their return home...
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