SOVIET ATOMIC ENERGY PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004000680006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 11, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 22, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL -INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
COUNTRY TTSSR
SUBJECT .Soviet Atomic Energy Program
V.A. Malyshev is in some way connected
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
formerly exercised top direction of the nrnarrnrn_
Ithe Soviet atomic energy program;
it is under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. L.P. Beri
with the atomic energy program.
2. The Soviet atomic energy program has always been entirely separate from
the MVD/MGB. Personnel from these ministries, have, however, been assigned
to it. In 1946, when the Fourth Directorate of the MGB was abolished, many
of its officers, including its chief, MGB Major General P.A. Sudoplatov,
were transferred to a new organization responsible for the counterintelligence
protection of the atomic energy program. This organJ7.ation.
was under the Council of Ministers. ecause of
the nature of its work, this organization maintained liaison with the then
Second Chief Directorate of the MGB. Some officers of the First Chief
Directorate of the MGB were also transferred to the atomic energy organization
proper. A number of top men from the MVD were assigned to the program, pre-
sumably at Beriya's request. Once transferred, all of these MVD/MGB officers
came under Beriya's personal jurisdiction. However.. Beriya did not exercise
top-level supervision of the MVD and the MGB in the post-war period, as
generally believed, because the MVD/MGB were controlled by the Central
Committee of the CPSU. In addition to providing personnel, the MVD also
supports the atomic energy program by providing convict labor for the ex-
traction of uranium ore.
In 194+8 or 14
the c s r Kapitsa was unfavorably regarded
by the Soviet Governor
his loyalty was considered
questionable. Kapitsa had been responsible for basic research in the field
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REPOR1
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of nuclear physics during World War II, but his work met with no success.
It was felt that he was deliberately capitalist
countries were forging ahead Kapitsa 25X1
may have been briefly held in custody, as a means of stimulating the
progress of his Kapitsa made little progress until 25X1
a) espionage made the Soviets privy to Western re-
search data, and b) considerable numbers of German scientists and physicists
were brought to the USSR.
gram is financed by a
confidential negls.snyy allocation.
no idea of the size of
this allocation, but assumes that it is not small.
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