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From June to September 1946, the head of foreign intelligence ( MGB 1st directorate ), was Lieutenant General Pyotr Kubatkin ( born in 1907 ), when he was replaced by then Lieutenant General Pyotr Fedotov ( born in 1900 ).

Before he became head of foreign intelligence, he was working in OGPU / GUGB counter-intelligence and ' Secret Political departments and then he headed the NKVD's counter-intelligence department.

From 1949 to 1951, the head of intelligence in the Committee of Information was Sergey Savchenko.

Savchenko was born in 1904 and at first he was working as a security guard.

He joined Soviet security organs in 1922 and in the 1940s was a top NKVD man in Ukrainian SSR.

When Andrey Vyshinsky became Minister for Foreign Affairs and the head of Committee of Information, Savchenko was his deputy and head of foreign intelligence.

In 1951, he was replaced by Lt. Gen. Yevgeny Petrovich Pitovranov, long time secret service worker.

Between 1950 and 1951, he was the deputy of MGB head Viktor Abakumov.