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06-05-2006, 10:57 AM
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The names of about 4,500 former Latvian KGB agents will be published in an official newspaper Nov. 1, a Latvian parliamentary committee has decided.
The date was chosen so that the published information would not effect parliamentary elections scheduled for October, The Baltic Times reported Tuesday.
This timing would ensure irreversibility of processes and preclude any accusations of political games, said Mareks Seglins, chairman of the parliament's legal committee.
The committee agreed on March 7 that the names of KGB agents would be published.
The KGB files, which were left behind in Latvia after the country won its independence from the Soviet Union, will be published in the newspaper Latvijas Vestnesis.
The files contain the former agent's name, his or her father's name, date and place of birth, code name, the date of recruitment, position within the KGB and, if applicable, the date on which he or she was discharged.
The names of about 4,500 former Latvian KGB agents will be published in an official newspaper Nov. 1, a Latvian parliamentary committee has decided.
The date was chosen so that the published information would not effect parliamentary elections scheduled for October, The Baltic Times reported Tuesday.
This timing would ensure irreversibility of processes and preclude any accusations of political games, said Mareks Seglins, chairman of the parliament's legal committee.
The committee agreed on March 7 that the names of KGB agents would be published.
The KGB files, which were left behind in Latvia after the country won its independence from the Soviet Union, will be published in the newspaper Latvijas Vestnesis.
The files contain the former agent's name, his or her father's name, date and place of birth, code name, the date of recruitment, position within the KGB and, if applicable, the date on which he or she was discharged.