Ivan Savchenko, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ivan Savchenko

KGB officer

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1908

Date of Death: 05-Sep-1999

Profession: military leader

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Ivan Tikhonovich Savchenko (1908-2000) was a Soviet Communist Party and KGB executive.
Savchenko made a career as a political officer in the Red Army during World War II.
A protégé of Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, Savchenko transferred to the Ministry of State Security (the predecessor to the KGB) in 1951.
In 1952 he was promoted to the chief of the Special Services Department (GUSS, a cryptanalysis and information security branch of the Central Committee), in 1953 to the Chief of the KGB's Eighth Chief Directorate.
His record at the national Party and KGB levels was lackluster, and 1959 he was transferred from Moscow to Chisinau as the head of the Moldavian SSR KGB.
In 1967–1979 Savchenko represented the KGB in Romania and Bulgaria.