SIX KREMLINOLOGISTS ASSESS LATEST SHIFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300520015-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: December 12, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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HERALD 'I'Rraur
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CPYRGHT DEC, 12 1965
The resignation last week of "
viet President Anastas Mi- ;
oyan has led to speculation
the West that a change in
viet policy or a new balance
power among Soviet lead-
s might emerge.
Six leading authorities on
oviat - affairs-professors at
olumbla, Princeton and Har-
rd familiar with develop-
ents in the Kremlin in the
st few years-all agreed in
I terviews last week that the
a ption to the Presidency !
co Nikolai V. Podgorny was
shift in power resulting in'
he ouster of Premier Nikita
hev in October, 1964.
Most of them felt that Mr.'
koyan had probably re.
fined for reasons of age an
11 health. They agreed, too
hat although conflicts' o
interest. existed among. the
viet leaders, policy, dispute
ere less severe and the
Pd for Personal.; power
Intense than. they ever
d d been. 11
The experts differed on the
i3ect of the Mikoyan resigna-
on on Soviet policy towards
e West, some considering it
reflection of the trend. to-
arda a 'hard line' against
erican policy in Viet Nam.
pastas Mikoyan, former !Alexander Shalepin, who
resident. 'was removed from.certai
fit
t Prof. Zblgniew Brezezinaky, ; ikolai Podgorriey, -the
t
e
rec
or of th
Research in- ~ ':I
Mute An Comm,,n1.t AM.4... ! ' . president. >:
i t Cole, am a the 14 aoyan I
CPYRGHT
mpo. n.:
but only as important as (Mc-'-
'eorge) Bundy's resignation..
trom the White House. It was
Simply a change in personnel ,
-t- a bureaucratic change." .
'NOR AL
Cyril Black, professor of '
story at Princeton, said::
;Tho Soviet leaders are in
asic agreement Though each
i them 'represents different
nterests and different spe-
lalties - the niflibary, agri- ;
ulture, and so forth - their''
ntllots are kept' within cer-
n limits.
"We are so used to 'plots
nd counter-plot., that no one
ill believe that the recent
hift is a normal trans ition.
t is not impossible that Miko'-.
n retired simply because he
elt old and tired-.
"There Is' ho real 'evidence
:that he was ousted because he,
4vored normalizing relations
;,'With the West. All of the Sov-
leaders would like to do sod
:+- but they cannot because of
Vi t Nam. They feel closer to
?th French and the- British,
:421 n they do to us at the mo-
nt. When he was interview-
ed by Reston the other day.~rl ygin naturally had to at-.,
k the U. S. He's worried.
'e ut our escalation of the
and lie had to put on an
a e But its what he does that
ts:1
J,. of. Merle +lainsod,of Isar.
said that he found little-
r}o comment ''upon in the
If~n's statement at face value,'
1 .:beldeve t'hat he retired wit!
t.,
nor. The key is Podgorny.;
he gdvea tip the party 'sec-,
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