KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA SAYS BARANNIKOV WAS MURDERED.

In itsAugust 25 issue, Komsomolskaya pravda said that formerRussian security minister Viktor Barannikov did not die from aheart attack on June 20 as the authorities claimed but was murderedin order to prevent him from identifying more secret KGB informers.The paper suggested that Col. Gen. Yury Gusev, had also been killedby automobile accident in December 1992 when he began to leakthe names of KGB informers to Yeltsin’s opponents.

Border Guards Block Another Smuggling Effort At Chinese Frontier.