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| | HIEU 216, Week 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Aleksandr Shelepin, who headed the KGB 1958-1961, played acrucial role in the plot to oust Khrushchev from his posts as First(General) Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of theCouncil of Ministers (i.e., Prime Minister). |
 | | N. Podgorny, whowould soon become Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (apost equivalent to President), also took part in the planning, asdid V. Semichastnyi, who headed the KGB from 1961 until YuriAndropov succeeded him in 1967. |
 | | Newly (since 1989) published documents, memoirs, and otherpersonal accounts indicate that Leonid Brezhnev, who succeededKhrushchev as Party boss, was not a major but rather a cautioussecondary player in this game, as was Mikhail Suslov, the long-timechief of ideology. |
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