INTERPRETATION OF SOVIET DOCTORS PLOT AND ITS REVERSAL

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000380010-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
S.D. Ignatyev was a Malenkov
the subsequent purging of as evj ence o a fight between Malenkov~and.
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Beriya, with Beriya purging infiltrators into his ranks,
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(someone was interested
in getting a lin s court physicians out of the way by accusation, but that once he
on the part of the hest"
all that is certain now is that there are 25X1
purges. But they will remain loyal and do their best to hang on, leaving not much
dith Stalin there was a certain sta 25X1
bility. Now it will be a long time before we again find a known quantity in the
Soviet Union -th whom we can negotiate/. The identity and/or characteristics of
such a pe r;3oz? save not yet crystallized. As for the Satellites, we do not know what
will happen to the Communist viceroys, One thing we know is that they are unsure of
themselves, especially since I.gnatyev presumably coordinated the recent Satellite
STATE I,g ARMY NAVY X AIR
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Interpretation of Soviet Doctors
Plot and its Reversal
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of an openin. f,,--)r the We,-;4,.. t?
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1o Coxrrrient ~ One-time 1eadint; German Communist Franz 13orkenau claimed in
the 23 Jani:rary 195'? issue of Rheinischer Merkur that the arrest of the doctors
indicated the 1z t i .cat;_t.ara of the 4roup whom Stalin had used to kill off his
adversaries anci ,,,-, dlcted that Stalin would be murdered. I3orkenau interpreted
the arrest of the, as a Ma:lenkov coutermeasure to Stalin' S attempt to
overthrow him. In the 1"s March issue of Rheinischer Merkur, ior'r.enaau cited
Stalin's death as of this prediction.
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