Potential KGB collaborators dot election lists

  • 1998-08-13
  • Steven C. Johnson
RIGA - At least 11 candidates among the 1,083 running for parliament are suspected of links to the KGB and other pro-Soviet security groups, according to the Central Election Commission.The names of New Party candidate Henriks Danusevics, Social Democrats Janis Adamsons and Ilgonis Steinbergs, and Latvian Unity Party leader Alberts Kauls have all been connected with possible KGB pasts, according to the CEC.In addition, the Center for Documenting Consequences of Totatlitarian Regimes reported the following candidates might have KGB backgrounds: Latvian National Democratic Party member Andris...
 
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