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Ex-KGB man held

Friday 18 March 1994 00:02 GMT
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Latvian police have arrested a former KGB chief for his alleged role in carrying out purges after the Second World War. Alfons Noviks, who headed Latvia's pre-war interior ministry and later its KGB security police, was arrested on Wednesday, Reuter reports from Riga.

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