A former Russian spy who headed the KGB has shot himself dead aged 77.<br /><br />Leonid Shebarshin was found at his central Moscow apartment with a single gunshot wound.<br /><br />A suicide note was found at the scene.<br /><br />Sherbashin briefly held the KGB's top post after a hardline Communist coup attempt in 1991.<br />http://www.euronews.net/
