Semyon Tsvigun(1917-1982)
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Semyon Tsvigun was a life-long member of the KGB from the late 1930s,
interrupted only by Red Army service in WWII. He graduated from Odessa
Teachers College in 1937. He was sent to Moldavian Soviet Socialist
Republic in 1951, and then to Tadzhikistan and Azerbaijan. In 1967, he
returned to Moscow, and became the Deputy Chairman of the KGB.
Tsvigun was also a writer of spy novels and author of many non-fiction articles, one of the most visible members of the KGB.
Semyon Tsvigun tried to protect his niece (and Brezhnev's daughter) Galina, and it is generally believed that a confrontation with Mikhail Suslov led to Tsvigun's suicide. R. Judson Mitchell claims that suicide is KGB disinformation, and that Tsvigun was actually assassinated.
Tsvigun was also a writer of spy novels and author of many non-fiction articles, one of the most visible members of the KGB.
Semyon Tsvigun tried to protect his niece (and Brezhnev's daughter) Galina, and it is generally believed that a confrontation with Mikhail Suslov led to Tsvigun's suicide. R. Judson Mitchell claims that suicide is KGB disinformation, and that Tsvigun was actually assassinated.
