Vadim Bakatin - Career

Career

  • 1960-71 - supervisor, chief engineer, director of construction works.
  • 1964-91 - Member of the CPSU.
  • 1971-73 - chief engineer of housing construction combine.
  • 1973-75 - Second Secretary of Kemerovo City Committee.
  • 1977-83 - Secretary of Kemerovo District Committee.
  • 1985 - Inspector of CPSU Central Committee.
  • 1985-87 - First Secretary of Kirov District Committee.
  • 1986-90 - Member of CPSU Central Committee.
  • 1987-88 - First Secretary of Kemerovo District Committee.
  • 1988-90 - USSR Minister of Internal Affairs.
  • 1990 (Jan-Nov) - Member of the Presidential Council.
  • 1991 (Aug-Dec) - Head of KGB.
  • 1991-92 - Head of the Interrepublican Security Service.
  • 1992 - Vice-President and Director of Department of Political and International Relations of the international "Reforma" Fund.

In 1991 Bakatin, as a Chief of KGB revealed to the US ambassador, Robert Schwarz Strauss, the methods that had been used to install covert listening devices in the building that had been intended to replace Spaso House as the American embassy in Moscow. Strauss reported that this revelation was made out of a sense of cooperation and goodwill, with "no strings attached".

Bakatin's action was met with harsh criticism, including allegations of treason, and his position was eliminated following the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Boris Yeltsin merged the KGB with other government agencies.

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