Party quietly promotes Brezhnev kin to hierarchy

By WITH ANALYSIS FROM MONITOR CORRESPONDENT AROUND THE WORLD; EDITED BY HILARY DEVRIES

March 5, 1981

Moscow

The Soviet Communist Party quietly promoted Leonid Brezhnev's son and son-in-law to its hierarchy along with two personal aides of the Soviet president, the party newspaper Pravda revealed Wednesday. The No. 2 men in the KGB secret police and Foreign Ministry also were promoted in a move observers said would extend Mr. Brezhnev's control of both the party and the government.