Word: tsvigun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
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