in the Ukrainian Communist Party. During World War II, Tsinev
transferred from party work to Smersh. After the war, he served in the
Third (Military Counterintelligence) Chief Directorate of the KGB.
He was chief of military counterintelligencein Berlin in the 1950s,
rising quickly to head of the Third Chief Directorate, and then first
deputy chief of the KGB. Tsinev was a crucial member of Brezhnev’s
“Dneprepropetrovsk mafia,” which helped him control the service,
and served as well as a key link with the military.TSVYGUN, SEMYON KONSTANTINOVICH (1917–1982).A ca-
reer KGBofficer who rose to first deputy chief of the service because
of his family connections to Leonid Brezhnev, Tsvygun was an im-
portant member of Brezhnev’s “Dneprepropetrovsk mafia.” Tsvygun
served in Moldavia with Brezhnev in the 1950s and according to
many sources was a boon drinking companion. Tsvygun wrote sev-
eral books and movie scenarios on the KGB and partisanwarfare, as
well as a history of the Cheka.
In early 1982 Tsvygun was attacked for professional incompetence
by Mikhail Suslov, Communist Partysecond secretary responsible
for ideology. Suslov blamed Tsvygun for allowing damning informa-
tion about Brezhnev to reach the West. Later that week, Tsvygun ap-
parently committed suicide. Brezhnev refused to sign his obituary,
the first sign that the West had of growing divisions in the ruling elite.
Suslov, who was in poor health, died shortly thereafter and was re-
placed as the number two man in the party by Yuri Andropov.TUDOR-HART, EDITH (1908–1973). One of the most unheralded
Soviet spies of the period between the two world wars was the
noted photographer Edith Tudor-Hart (née Suchetzky). Born in
Austria, she married a left-wing English doctor and moved to Lon-
don in the early 1930s. Tudor-Hart worked as a spotter and recruiter
for Soviet intelligence. She helped enlist Kim Philbyand other
upper-class Britons sympathetic to Joseph Stalin’s Russia. She was
deeply trusted by the Soviet intelligence service, which came to her
for help in 1940 when they lost contact with Guy Burgessand An-
thony Blunt. According to Soviet memoirs of the period, it was
through her efforts that Moscow reestablished its intelligence appa-
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