SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 4, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Soviet Union
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Increased Polemics Over Berlin . . . .
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Another USSR Industrial Ministry . . .
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Local CPSU Officials Shifted . . . . .
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Increased Polemics Over Berlin
Soviet and East German media have recently
been taking a tougher line on the status of Berlin.
The East Germans, with evident Soviet backing,
have vehemently claimed that "Berlin" is the capital
of East Germany and that the Quadripartite Agreement
signed in 1972 applies only to West Berlin. An
editorial in the East German party paper Neues
Deutschland on May 30 flatly asserted that "our
capital (Berlin) is an inseparable, integral com-
ponent part of, and has exactly the same legal status
as every other part of the territory of the German
Democratic Republic. France, Great Britain and the
US have no original noncontractual rights with re-
gard to Berlin, nor have they ever had them." The
editorial further claimed that West Berlin is still
an "occupation area and its status and relations
have been settled in the Quadripartite Agreement."
A Tass commentary on June 2 made essentially the same
points.
The western allies have always contended that
the four powers have rights and responsibilities for
the entire city and that the 1972 agreement did not
affect the status of the city in any way.
Western observers are divided on the significance
of the intensification of the polemics. One theory
is that before the European security talks (CSCE)
end, Moscow wants to establish that the GDR frontier
runs through Berlin. Since the CSCE documents will
include a statement on the inviolability of borders,
the Soviets and East Germans might then try to use
such a provision as a further argument that the rights
of the four powers do not extend to the entire city.
It is also conceivable that the Soviets may be
laying the groundwork for a post-CSCE effort to alter
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the legal status of Berlin. This could be done
either by redrafting the 1964 Soviet - East German
Treaty of Friendship or by revising the procedure
by which East Berlin elects its delegates to the
East German parliament.
In any case, Moscow is unlikely to provoke a
serious crisis before the conclusion of CSCE. East
German Foreign Minister Fischer has just returned
from a visit to the Soviet Union, where the next
moves by East Germany were probably discussed.
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Another USSR Industrial Ministry
The Soviet press announced on May 29 that yet
another industrial ministry has been formed--the
Ministry of Power Machine Building. The former Min-
istry of Heavy, Power and Transport Machine Building
will retain responsibility for heavy and transport
machinery and drop the word "power" from its title.
V. F. Zhigalin will continue as its head. V. V.
Krotov, formerly Zhigalin's first deputy, will take
over the new ministry.
As the US embassy in Moscow points out, the
reorganization continues the diffusion of industrial
responsibilities that has frequently been mentioned
as a necessary accompaniment to the creation of
production associations. As a result of other "split-
ups" over the last three years, the ministries of
Construction of Petroleum and Gas Industry Enterprises,
Machine Building for Livestock Raising and Fodder
Production, and Communications Equipment Industry
were created.
Both Zhigalin and Krotov are career specialists
in their fields and have rarely traveled to the West
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Local CPSU Officials Shifted
Changes in Soviet personnel at the first and
second secretary level of local party organizations
continue, but the rate has decreased significantly
since our last report The
following shifts have occurre :
Armenia:
May 23: L. P. Garibdzhanyan, 1st secretary of
Yerevan Gorkum, was replaced by L. N. Nersesyan
(formerly 1st secretary, Leninsky Raykom).
May 23: L. G. Saakyan, 2nd secretary of Yerevan
Gorkum, was relieved at a plenum; no replacement has
been named yet.
Kazakhstan:
April 23: K. I. Likharev, 2nd secretary of
Dzhambul Oblast, was transferred to other work and
was replaced by A. F. Shalov (promoted from secre-
tary within the obkom).
April 23: A. N. Shmanov, 2nd secretary of North
Kazakhstan Oblast, was transferred to other work,
and was replaced by G. Sh. Shakirov (formerly obkom
secretary).
Kirgizia:
April 25: N. N. Tartyshev, 2nd secretary of
Kirgizia, was transferred to other work, and was re-
placed by Yu. N. Pugachev (formerly head of Otdel
of Organizational-Party Work, CC, CPSU).
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May 12: O. P. Naumenko, 2nd secretary of Kiev
City, was transferred to other work in the apparatus
of the CC, CP of the Ukraine, and was replaced by
V. M. Gayevoy (formerly secretary of Kiev Obkom).
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