KGB Chief Wins Reappointment From Legislature;Soviet Deputies Pepper Vladimir Kryuchkov With Tough Questions About Security Agency From: The Washington Post | Date: July 15, 1989| Author: | Copyright 1989 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov won reappointment today from the Soviet legislature, but not before maverick Boris Yeltsin and other deputies asked a series of stinging questions about the practices and history of the Soviet state security service.

The spectacle of a KGB chief enduring what amounted to a Western-style confirmation hearing would have been remarkable enough even if the questions from the floor had been pure pablum. But the sight of Yeltsin, in full view of the television cameras, charging the KGB with having caused "tremendous moral damage" stretched the limits of imagination.

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