SECRET POLICE
New Chief Named (N.Z. Press Assn.— Copyright) LONDON. November 14. The man who denounced Berts Fasternak —“The pig can leave the Soviet Union any time be likes” has been appointed head of the Russian secret police. He is 38-year-oid Vladimir Semictaastny, a graduate from the Young Communist League, said the “Daily Express.” He takes over from Mr Alexander Shelepin, who was elected to the party secretariat The promotion comes after his scathing attacks on the Molotov anti-party group at the recent twenty-second Communist Party congress. Mr Semichasiny began to come into prominence in the party at the 1956 congress, where “de - Stalinisstion” began.
He made the most bitter attack of all on Pasternak when the elderly writer, since dead, was awarded a Nobel Prize.
He was previously second secretary of the party in Azerbaijan and was elected an alternate member of the central committee at the recent congress. At the congress, he said that the main job of the secret police today was counterintelligence work, reported Reuter.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29671, 15 November 1961, Page 15
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