Background
Bakatin, Vadim Viktorovich was born in 1937 in Kiselyovsk, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, WORLD0.
Bakatin, Vadim Viktorovich was born in 1937 in Kiselyovsk, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, WORLD0.
Graduate, Kuibyshev Institute Building Engineering, Novosibirsk, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1960; graduate in building engineering, Academy Social Sciences, 1985.
He is the last surviving former chairman of this organization. He was appointed to dismantle the KGB, but he was unable to control this organization and to fulfill the task. He is a graduate of the Novosibirsk Civil Engineering Institute and the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee.
From 1960 to 1971 Bakatin was supervisor, chief engineer, director of construction works. Bakatin was appointed minister of internal affairs in 1988, replacing Alexander Vlasov. Bakatin's tenure lasted until 1990.
In 1991, he was made the head of KGB. From 1991 to 1992 he served as head of the Interrepublican Security Service. In 1992, he was appointed 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. The traditions of chekism must be eradicated, must cease to exist as an ideology.
Quotations: The traditions of chekism must be eradicated, must cease to exist as an ideology.
[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]
From 1964 to 1991 he was the member of the CPSU. From 1986 to 1990 he served as the member of CPSU Central Committee.