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Shortly before Oswald was to leave Moscow for Belorussia in January 1960, the KGB chief of counterintelligence in Minsk, received a small dossier on Oswald from Moscow Central. The file contained mostlyreports by Intourist informants and officials, a summary of Oswald's request for asylum and official disposition thereof, and a report on Oswald's "suicide attempt."No details were furnishedon Oswald'smilitary history, family, past life in the US,etc. Oswald was characterized in the file as a disgruntled former US Marine private claiming to be a Marxist and seeking Soviet citizenship.
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In addition, on the basis of Minsk-1, the system for storage and recognition of fingerprints for the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs was manufactured. The chief designer of this system was A. M. Tolmachev.
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According to Vremya Novostey's information, one of the main suspects in the murder case of Paul Klebnikov , editor-in-chief of Forbes' Russian edition, has been detained in Minsk. A man by the name of Kazbek, carrying ID papers with three different names, is believed to have masterminded the attack on the prominent journalist in July.
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In 1966, the Plant SKB completed the development of Minsk-23, designed for data processing in economic projecting, statistical, industrial and management tasks and for data search purposes. Its chief designer was V. V. Przhiyalkovsky and deputy designer was G. D. Smirnov.
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