THE ARMY AND THE BERIA CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500800228-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 228
• Publication Date: February 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The role played by ?lars'i:.l Konev thi: -Da:1a ca:3u shows that Malenkov has
rolled on the arm-y: Jun 1953 the tormidzble police-
political apparatus set ,p by cconda to prevent any resultant
internal distuxbanca. I. ~.'tt zI be !:otc~ th zt Gu cral of the Army t4oekalenko,
commander of the Mo!!ao,: Feg_on, o_:c u. Konev'e fudge-aaseosor5. Now, this
general assiuned hits co=ma.ni .;n,: vary .:,us^t:it %-nen Beria was arrested. That
is to say, he is a an on whu^: Mal..nkov dc_'.nitoly can rely.
2. Thechoice of the new vice ic.:teq the ^oviot eagerness to appeal,
more and more, to thc; cl . s e: Ytu 1--raLtic .l t;,chnlcal men. Malet:kov, in
agreement with the Army, ^t . to _c ol._t1c_.ac the: z?egi:re and got rid of
Sectarians. Furthurmoz,c, .,z-u_t th:: technical elan vi 1 help persuade the
population that the ma:t to po? c: -?c t_y1nc, pr-Ina.-Illy, to Improve the standard
of living of the l2b::rirg
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