REORGANIZATION OF SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTRY'S INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Reorganization of Soviet Foreign Ministry's
Intelligence Department
Approved For Release 2007/01/19: CIA-RDP80-00809AO00500780123-6
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1. A complete reorganization of the Soviet Foreign Ministry is now going on. ?...der TI.-,".
direction of AA Gromyko. The Ministry's own intelligence department is be?.ng re-
established in full working capacity under VA Zorin. While Beria waa head of the
secret police this department existed, but Almost illegally and was without in-
fluence. Political and economic intelligence is being completely transferred
to the intelligence department of this Ministry, which will work as it did beforc-
World War II, under !,1tvinov.
2. Diplomats, assigned to the intelligence department, will soon be sent to serve
in the various, Soviet embassies and legations, but they will not be subordinated
to the ministers.'
3. The head of the newly re-established intelligence department of the Foreign
Ministry is IN Tiapkin, who formerly served in the 2nd (Western Europe) Section
of the Ministry. He has been replaced there by W Sla7rin. Tiapkin will be
assisted by MI Sladkovski, now deputy head of the Far East Department of the
Ministry. Alexander Snegov has been sent to Paris as a member of the intelli-
gence department of the Ministry and will make that place his permanent residence.
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