DOBRYNIN, ANATOLIY FEDOROVICH - USSR

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06589082
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• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2016
• Case Number: F-2016-01930
• Publication Date: June 1, 1963

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DOBRYNIN, Anatoliy F edorovich USSR
Ambassador to the United States - Accredited March 30, 1962
Dobrynin is a bona fide professional diplomat who has followed a career in
the Soviet Foreign Ministry since 1944. The high regard which his abilities
command among the Soviet leadership is illustrated by his steady advancement
despite close working associations with Shepilov and Molotov before their
disgrace. He is an old friend of Gromykols and, on several occasions, has
implied a personal relationship with Khrushchev.
Dobrynin is a specialist on American affairs and his impressive record
shows unbroken concentration on them since 1952.
Since his arrival, Dobrynin has assiduously endeavored to develop
personal contacts with a wide range of influential individuals in the
Administration, Congress, White House, and other areas of public life. Of
a more engaging personality than his predecessor, Dobrynin effectively employs
an approach characterized by a disarming frankness and contagious good humor.
From the buoyantly self-confident manner in which he expresses his views and
those of his government, it seems that he is certain of his own authority and
of his rapport with the Soviet leadership, including Khrushchev.
Background
Dobrynin was born in 1919 outside Moscow and gives the impression of
having a middle class rather than a working class background. He holds a
Candidate of Historical Sciences degree and once expressed a wish to return
to academic life and obtain a doctorate. His career, before he was appointed
to the US as Counselor of Embassy in 1952, is fuzzy. He was given the rank of
Minister in 1954 and subsequently became an adviser on atomic energy matters
at the UN. After a stay in Moscow he returned to New York in 1957 and replaced
I. S. Chernyshev as Under Secretary in the UN Secretariate. In 1958 he was
appointed Under Secretary for the Department of Political and Security Council
Affairs, thus becoming the highest ranking Soviet citizen on the Secretariate.
In this position he was active in making preparations for the 1958 Disarmament
Commission meetings and later in heading a commission to reorganize the UN
Office of Public Information.
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In the early part of 1960 he resigned from the Secretariate to assume the
directorate of the American Countries Section at the Foreign Ministry. This
section includes all the countries of the Western Hemisphere, and it is probable
that Dobrynin will pay considerable attention to Latin American affairs.
Quite tall and heavy-set, he speaks excellent English and some French.
Dobrynin's wife. Irina Nikolayevna, was born on December 18, 1921 in
Saratov.
An
aeronautical engineer, she is musically inclined, and also speaks English and
French. Both he and his wife appear interested in cultural matters; Dobrynin
himself has a fondness for American TV and movies. He has stated that
chess is his favorite pastime and that he also likes hunting and fishing in
Siberia. The Dobrynins have a daughter, Yelena, born in 1947 in Moscow,
who is now studying in the USSR. Their nearest relatives in the Soviet
Union, as reported in 1955, are Dobrynin's father and Mrs. Dobrynin's
mother, both of whom reside in Moscow.
Chronology
Born at Krasnaya Gorka, Moscow Oblast November 19, 1919
Works in Foreign Ministry 1944-1952
Graduates from Higher School of 1946
Diplomacy, subsequently serves
as chief aide to D. F. Shepilov
Assistant Deputy Minister for Foreign 1949-1952
Affairs
Counselor of Embassy, Washington 1952-1954
Chief negotiator on questions of Lend- Early 1954
Lease Payments
Minister-Counselor with rank of Envoy
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
to US, later serves as Charge
d'Affaires in Ambassador
Zarubin's absence
Adviser to Soviet representative on UN,
Advisor Commission on Peaceful
Uses of Atomic Energy
August 1954-1955
December 1954-1955
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Attends UN Jubilee Celebration, San
Francisco
Advisor to delegation at Geneva Summit
Conference
Member of Molotov's personal staff at
UN as expert on Atomic Energy
matters and delegate
Counselor in Foreign Ministry with rank
of Minister
Minister-Counselor on UN delegation,
New York
Under Secretary (without department) of
UN Secretariate
Under Secretary for Department of
Political and Security Affairs
Chief, American Countries Division and
Member of Collegium, Foreign
Ministry
Adviser at Paris Summit Conference,
delegate to special Security
Council session on the U-2
incident
Adviser at Vienna meeting between
President Kennedy and Khrushchev
Member of good will mission to Latin
America led by Presidium Secretary,
M. P. Georgadze
Ambassador to the United States
1955
July 1955
August 1955
1955-1956
1956-1957
July 1957-July 1958
July 1958-Early 1960
February 1960-
December 1961
May 1960
June 1961
August 1961
March 30, 1962
June 1963
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