- Philipp Bobkov
Philipp Bobkov (born in 1925) is a former director of
KGB political police department (Fifth Directorate), which was responsible for suppression of internal dissent in the formerSoviet Union . He was widely regarded the chief KGB ideologist or "KGB brain". [ [http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=18086 One life of Filipp Denisovich] , by Evgeny Zhirnov,Kommersant , 12.05.2000.]Bobkov came to work in the Soviet secret services in 1945, when they were guided by
Lavrenti Beria , and survived Beria and 11 subsequent secret police chairmen. During the 1970s-1980s he "effectively became the KGB's real chairmen, although officially he held the post of first deputy". [ [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0374527385/ "The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia - Past, Present, and Future"] , byYevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. 1994. ISBN 0-374-18104-7. ] He allegedly supervised transfer of Communist Party money to foreign banks prior to the1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt . [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=-dPpeeU84h0C&pg=PA317&dq=Bobkov+KGB&sig=nAZhtnZZwIUt6mHc3AdzzjK2QOc Transfer of Communist Party money] ]He officially retired in 1991 and organized a private security service in the
Media Most company, which included thousands of his former KGB colleagues. [ [http://www.rosvesty.ru/numbers/1762/nongrata/ Ideologist for all times] , by Felix Shemedlovsky, Russian Vedomosti ] [ [http://www.ko.ru/document.php?id=1509 Apolitical Gusinsky] , by Andrei Grigoriev, "Company", 28.03.2000 ]References
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