MERKULOV, VSEVOLOD NIKOLAEVICH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040367-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 367
• Publication Date: August 10, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION sgCRBT/SSCURiTY INFOHr,
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Merkulov, Vsevolod Nikolaevich
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Merkulovl one of Be a!s men. Merkulov is not tall, be
has a square face and a broad nose. He is a very determined and an
intelligent person. He graduated from high school
in the Czar's time. . Subsequently he completed an wAvance
servo.. of NKVD. Thus, ne has both general and Party education which is
very important in the Soviet Union.
2. He, together with his brother, belonged to a group of young Communists
sponsored by in the twenties, which also included Beria,
Lopshnadze. Rudu Kachamalian and others. Merkulov began his career as a
Komsomol, and than was drafted into the Arny where he served in the Frontier
Guards. He met Beria in the NKVD in 1925-26 and these two developed
friendly relations. Since then Merkulov followed closely in Beria's foot-
steps, together with Dekonozov and Millshtein.
s. When Beria became an important personality in the NKVD of Georgia, he ap-
pointed Merkulov as chief of the NKVD in Batum. Later on Beria transferred
him to Tiflis where Merkulov worked with Beria. When Beria moved to
Moscow, he took Merkulov with him, together with Raphael Nillah_e+n
g Qy and his brother, Boknnn n. (the former ambassador in Berlin and
present Minister of Internal Affairs in Georgia). Iierknlov is a Russian
frog Tiflis, but speaks Russian with a Georgian accent.
It. Although Merkulov in a very interesting and a prominent figure, he will
never reach ndary posts because he is completely overshadowed
by Beria. he could have had an independent career of his own
if he had no ad elf so closely to Beria.
5. As a Deraon Merkulov is not cru.1_ althnn h he is reserved and denendirg.
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