BI-WEEKLY PROPAGANDA GUIDANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03061A000100010010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 26, 1959
• Content Type: PERRPT

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151. eplacement of S let Ambassador t Communist aina
On October 14 Soviet Ambassador to the CPA-A I--av.~l Yudin was tranLJ.ee , . re i
to "other work". Pis replacement is Stepan V. Chervcnenko. Yudin has been
ambassador to Peking for almost six years. During the past two years he
frequently has been absent from his post, and rumors have circulated that hog has
been ill. By virtue of his long tenure in China, he probably is the most experi-
enced expert on the CPR in the Soviet hierarchy. Presumably, he has worked
more closely with Chinese leaders than any other Soviet official. Yudin is a
renowned Marxist ideologist with Stalinist leanings. While editor of the Cominform
newspaper "For Lasting Peace, For Ic'eople's Democracy", he led the early attack
on Yugoslav revisionism. Yudin was recalled as Ambassador to East Ce.1711;Any
just before the 1953 uprisings. Vi hile he was l-imbassadcr to Peking, the Chinese
Communists staged a propaganda attack on Yugoslavia which presumably accorded
with Yudin's views, but which was at variance with those of Khrushchev, Yudin a
participated in many Soviet-Chicom negotiations at which the CP_3 won concessi.onti
at the expense of the USSR. He may have been instrumental in assisting Peking in
this, Late last year Yudin published an attack on Indian policies, and by extension,
on Nehru. I-iti actions conceivably have helped prcvide ammunition for the
Stalinist opposition to .i