Vadim Bakatin, a liberal politician who briefly headed the Soviet KGB in the months leading up to the collapse of the USSR, has died at the age of 84, Russian state media said on Monday.
Bakatin was appointed by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to head the security service after its previous boss, Vladimir Kryuchkov, played a leading role in a failed coup against Gorbachev in August 1991.
"You are right on one thing: archives concerning those mysteries in which establishing the truth has great significance for mankind - these must be opened up," Bakatin told the ex-dissident, Vladimir Bukovsky.
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