BULGANIN, NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040390-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 390
• Publication Date: August 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Bulgar)in, Nikolai Alexandrovicht
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1. &ilganin advanced very rapidly. In 19111 he was appointed a member of the
War Council in charge of the Moscox front. As a political commissar, he
P~'ticipated in the defense of 2loacow together with Marshal 7~. ~
19112 he was promoted to major-general and in this capacity moved to Poland
with the Mascow front and Marshal Zhukov. After the liberation of Poland,
he was made a Soviet plenipotentiary representative there. In 19116 he
received the rarilc of Marshal and was made deputy rld.nister of the Armed Forces.
Later on hP became 2`,inister of War and in 19!19 was made a full member of the
Politburo in charge of all military 3.ffairs. At present he is in
charge of Special Committee tIo 1 of the C~+.incil of Ministers. This super-
viaea all weapon developments with the exception of atomic energy.
2. He is probably the most educated and certainly the smartest member of the
Presidium, perhaps second to ~g~yy. He is eztrem ambitious and the
only member of the group $ considers real],}. smarty He is veiyr stern,
abrupt, and tigerish.
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maa, xhoea reasoaiag ae a atateeman ie dynaad.c. F~ hae organiz~?''.ona1 impetue
aad the indeetruotibls xill '?o aohieve the eet purpooe. UntortL.iatsly,
hoxever, hs ie the equal of ~lotov ae regards to etubbornese, harehneee oP
morels, pitileeensee, imperialie peyohology, devotion to the idea of yet
greater and greater tsrrltorial expanelon, iadiStereace to the Mete o! non-
Rueeiaa people, sad h~tred,~'or ~' tom.;o!' ~dteeeastifS~:' ~~ oo-partr9~ehip of
th~e? txo eat ohiet?diotatore srould bring the Baal turn of the dictatorial
eorsx, evea more racial Rweomani.a, the oompletioa of the replaoe~ment of
revolutionary ideals b~ the ba~}ronet, tank, and bomber,. the promotion of the
M9n-lam to the oriterioa ot,higheet demaaraoy, the daehiag o! the L,et hopes
of tutions xho havb la3,3,ea under soviet role of achieving notional iadepeadeaoe,
and the tYaal~rabettL'ntton of revolutionary internationalien by Rw'daa great-
poxer nationalism.
5. Bulga~n ie the only mesber oP the aggressive imperialist part o! the Polit-
buro ~.o enjoy the aiaoere respect o! Stalin, xho regards hia as a dictator
of statesmanlike calibre. Ia 8talia~c epolitioal teetsa~ente there.xill
probably be much that ie flattering about Hulgaaia, but Stalin is~uali7ce~y
to recommend him u leaden No 1, knoxing that ~L and tron].d never
agree to thin.
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