PERSECUTION OF RELIGIOUS MINORITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000030003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTEL.LL_G.EN_CE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18. Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
smended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL-US OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY USSR (Azerbaydzhan SSR)
SUBJECT Persecution of Religious Minorities
DATE OF INFO.
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REPORT
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. Jews, Armenians, and Moslems in the Soviet-Iranian fontier area are complaining
openly that they are being discriminated against by the Soviet Government.
2. Colonel Sibolskiy, Commander of the Border Guards in the Lenkoran area since 1951,
and Captains Kerenskiy and Vasilovskiy have been replaced. 1 All of these
officers are Jewish.
3. General Yahya Eliasov, a Sunni Moslem and high-ranking oil expert at Baku, was
sent to Moscow on 29 January, 1953 under arrest.
4. Only Belorussian and Ukrainian workers are now employed in the oil refineries
at Baku; formerly almost all such workers were Armenians or Moslems.
Jewish doctors and nurses have been dismissed from hospitals in the Azerbaydzhan SSR.
6. Iranian Azerbaydaar who fled to the USSR after the collapse of the Pishevari
regime in 1946 have been denied Soviet citizenship except in cases where they
have married Soviet nationals.
SECRET/CONTROL-US OFFICIALS ONLY
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14 April 1953
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