MOSCOW -- Alexander Mikhailovich Sakharovsky, a former chief of foreign intelligence operations and administrator of KGB headquarters in Moscow, has died, the newspaper Moscow evening said Monday.
The newspaper did not list the cause of death or give Sakharovsky's age.
It said the 'leadership and the party body' of the KGB 'announce with deep regret' Sakharovsky's death.
He was a party member from 1930, a veteran official of the Soviet security service, a former member of the board and chief of the main office of KGB, and retired with the rank of general-colonel, the newspaper said.
The one-paragraph obituary notice did not give details of his career, but an earlier organizational chart of the KGB showed that Sakharovsky was appointed chief of the First Chief Directorate in 1965.
It did not say when say when he moved from the First Chief Directorate to headquarters administration or when he retired.
According to the chart, the First Directorate is the agency's foreign department. Covert operations are run by a separate department, the Executive Action department.
