THE APPARATUS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CPSU

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SUBJECT The Apparatus of the Central
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IThe object of the report is to study
changes occurring in the apparatus between 1956 and 1959 and to look
forrclues on the present relations between the members of the Presidium.
The study covers the Bureau of the Central Committee for the RSFSR and
the Department of Party Organs; Administrative Organs; Agriculture;
Industry; Science, Schools, and Culture; Foreign; and the Administration
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TH1 AI-PARATUS OF THE CI TTR-t(Q MMI ? E OF TM, O.P. S.U.: 1956,
I. Introduction.
Our last paper on the Apparatus of the Central Coamnittee
of the C.P.S.U. traced its history. from 1939 until the Cth
Party Congress (1956). The object. of the present paper is to
record any changes which have occurred between 1956 and 1959
and. examine them for clues concerning the present state of
relations between different members of the Presidiums
2? As in our earlier study, inadequacy of information pre-
vents a complete account of changes in the leadership of the
Central Committee.apparatuse Changes of department heads are
still not revealed as they occur and can be learnt only by
inference. This fact alone suggests that .control. over appoint-
ments to the apparat continues to be an important factor in
power struggles at the top. For example, it is not known who
was Head of the important Uepartjnent of Party. Organs for the
Union Republics between i:aroh 1957 and April 1 958. Judging by
past history, it is quite.possible. that there was .a manoeuvre
between l ,arch and July.1957 by the "anti Party group" to bring
a candidate of their own choosing into this key position; if
there was, we know nothing of it.
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/beputy Chairman:
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II. The Bureau of -'t a Oentral Committee for the ? RJ.F.
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5. Our previous paper on', the a at. described the....setting
up of the R.S.P.-S, . -Bureau at the XXth.Party ConWesa? in ?iebruary
1956. The.?prnoesa- of dividing 'up all imPortant? Central Committee
departments i:rito two branohea - one for Union Republioa and one
for the R.S.F.8.R -'.was first noted: in 1951,.. Iy formed pant ,.
of a genera]., deoentralization of authority and enhancement of
the :lm4portanoe, of the R.S.F.S.R. From the.XXth Congress onwarde
all R. S. F. S. R. branches of Central Committee department s f orayed
part Of the new Bureau, although .both the R. S. F. S. It.., and: Union
Republic branches are dezoribed as.pa.~allel formations controlled'
d iraotly by the Central Coumittee, O.P. S..U. Tt{e Bureau as opn,
atituted in 1956 consisted O
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O hairman:.. N. S, Khxuahoh.ev
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Deputy Chairman: N,I, Bely ev (then Secretary;, Central
Committee), C.P.S.U. )
2;aeiabers: 'SI.A? Yasnov (then Chairman, Council
of Ministers, R. S. F. S,,Il.. )
P.R. Kozlov (then First Secretary,
Leningrad 2)ki1j)
V.M, Churaev (then Head! of Party Organs
Department, Central Committee,
for the H.S.F.S.R.)
V.P. 2.Iylarshohikov (then Head of the
Agricultural Department,
Central Con7mittee,for. the
R.S.~'.S.R.)
Aai;Io Puzanov (then First Deputy Chairman
Council of Ministers of the
R.S,F.S.R.)
N?G..Ignatov (then First Secretary of
Gorky.obkom)
A.P. iiirilenko (then First, Secretary
of Sverdlovsk obkom)
I.V. Kapitonov (then First Secretary
of Moscow oom)
A.B. Aristov.(then.Secretary, Central
Committee of the C.P.S.U. )
PN Pospelov (then Secretary, Central
Committee of the.C.P.S.U.)
6. Since 1956 there have been many vicissitudes in the
careers of these officials. On4five - Khrushchev, Churaev,
Kirilenko, Aristor and Pospelov - still hold the posts which
they held in 1956; others have been either demoted or trans-
ferred to posts in which they are hardly likely to remain in
the Bureau. The only changes in composition which have been
publicized in the Soviet Press are the replacement of Belyaev
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by Aristov as Deputy Chairman ? in December 1958; a reference
to 'X.V.. SpiridonoV (First Secretary,, Leningrad obkom, an a
member in Apriz'l ...1959 and a reference ' to P.N. Demiohev (First
Secretary, Moscow obk,MM) as a member in duly 1959., Other changes
.are unlikely to be ? revealed before. the XXIInd Party Congress
in 1961,' It should be noted that Aristovts poet as Deputy
Chairman of the.!Buo.au in practice probably giver, him oonsiderabl3
power over the,R.S.P.S.R., sinca Khruahohev in preaumably too
busy to pay detailed .attention 'to . the work of the Bureau. It
is therefore probable that Aristov is in a position to influence
some Party appointments, He saems. to have a particular interest
in the eastern regions of the R.S.P.S.R.
III.. The DDeep_artraent.. of Party Orgy.
7,. . ~: :Since . about .1.954: there have been two branohe a of this
Department - one for the Union'Republios and one for the R.S.F.S.R.
They..work in 31o8e collaboration;. for example, there is only
oxx64::offioe for issuing Party cards,
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is divided :ntoterr-itorial and functional sectors:
Your territorial,'aeot:ore,.. each.dealing with a group
of Union and autonomous republics:
i) TIIie .Ukrainian and iol.davian Sector with one
head and six..'nstruotora;
ii)-.. The Transoauoaaian Sector;:
iii) .The ICazakhetan and, Centr',.Asiah Seotor's.;.__
iv)..The Baltic Republics Sector;
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pour functional sectors:
i) The Sector for Organizational and S 4at,itory
questions, which deals wi'':s the ?)bsorvanue
of the statutes oollersts statistical c"ata
on peripheral Party orga:iizatinns and inter-
genes in expulsion cases;
ii) The a-iembership Sector;
iwi) The Cadres Sector;
The Trades Union, Komsomol and Soviet Organs
8. As
Sector,,
well as the regular officials of the department, there
is a group of'four inspectors who come directly under the Central
Committee, C.P.S.U. and are not controlled by the territorial
organs, These people are usually ex-obkoa secretaries. Altogether
the Union Republics branch of the Department has sixty-four
political and sixty-four technical officials. Generally speaking,
the business of the Departaiert is to examine all questions can.
cerning the structure of the Party and put its proposals to the
Central Conmittee (in practice presumably to the Secretariat),
which itself decides on any structural or organizational modi-
fication. The Department keeps index cards of Party leaders
and officials. and prepares statistical data on the cadres and
composition of various organs in order to suggest eventual
modifications to the Central Committee.
it is concerned with the "systemi-
zation and allocation" of cadres in the Party, Trade Unions,
/Soviets and
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Soviets and other social organizations, This inoltidea the
appointment of officials in other departments of the central
a arat. e. g. the Agri 1tura.l. and Transport Departments, As
for. oandidates..for posts.. jn Soviet organizations, the approval
of the Department.is necessary,.for..appointments down to the
level of Chairman and Deputy OY&9xman of oblast and kraaii
executive committees. It also vets candidates far 'ministerial
Jobs in the Union Republics, Another function -c' 'tlie Department
is control of the work of central and republioan Party schools,
including the recruitment of students..
9y Included in, the Department is, an Off ice for Party Enrol-
ment. There is.. a..,atandard enrolment card for the -whole Soviet
Union,,, the. on11y. difference being, that In the Union Republics
the writing is in two languages., This Office distributes
membership curds to ,.various. organizations,- and. -controls, the:'.
handing out. of them .to Party members? The.. organ Which decides
on the acceptance of new members is the ra 'which oolleots
and keeps the relevant.dootanents (request for membership, nomination
forms,,etc. ). The. Party Organs Department, has powers to recomdtend
that a:request fox membership be ;aooepted, It keeps a ?ocmplete
list of all Pa ty . members of the,. U. S. S. R, -In :, , eriva1 order;
10, The Head, of the R. S.'.S.R. Branch of: the: Party Organs
Department since its formation in, 1:951+ has been V.M. Ohuraev
(last noted An Marsh 195-9), who had in the past served", under
I r^ushahev in the,, Ukraine and whom wwa., have .*lwaya regarded: as
a Khrushohey man, The position: in. t13e .Union'. Repiiblioii branch
As less clear.
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is less clear. Until !,larch 1957, when he was made. Ambassador
to Hungary, ' it. was headed by E.I. Gromov, an app&:ge;ghik of
long standing
with no known ties to any of
the current leaders. Prom I March 1957 to April 1.958, when
A,N's.Shelepin took over the department, we do not know who was
in charge of it, It is tempting to speculate that during lnaroh
July 1957 a battle may have been waged with the "anti-Party
group" over the leadership of the Party Organs Department, as.
it seems to have been at other Party crises in the post-war
period (e.g. in 194.8 and 1952). Shelepin held the post until
Idaroh 1959, when he became Chairman of the K. G. B. and was
succeeded by V.E. 'Semichastny, ex-First Secretary of the Kcrosomol.
As far as Shelepn is concerned, there are no earlier career
links between him andKhrushchev, but there can be little doubt
that Khrushchev himself approved Shelepints appointment. Semi-
chastny, who had served in'the Ukraine under Khrushchev, did not
hold the post of Party Organs Head for long, becoming Second
Secretary of the Azerbaidzhan Central Committee in August 1959,
shortly- after a purge of the Azerbaidzhan Party leadership. As
his successor is still not known, it is too early to comment on
the possible significance of this change, At first sight it
might be regarded as a demotion for Semiohastny, but the impli-
cation of recent Soviet statements is clearly that there is. an
urgent need for a strong hand in Azerbaidzhan.
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IV. The Department of Agitation and Pro rra 4a.
11. This department also-has existed, in. two parallel formations
-~ one for the Union Republios and. one. as -part of the R. S. F. S. R.
Bureau since at least 1956, As won as its nominal functions
it directs ideological work` sharing part. of this task with the
"Science and Cultural Departmen'W". The Department has sectors
:for Propaganda.. Agitation, lilies Work., Central Newspapers,
Publ3.oations and Reviews and Radio and Television.
From its formation until I?.iay 195W
the Union Republica
branoh of the Agitprop Department was in, the. cha ?ge of .Y.
{onstantinov, In that month Konstantinov 'Was 'made
Editor of
"Kommunist'~ and control of Agitprop.-passed to, L.F. Iliohev,
ex-Head of the Press b'epartment of the Ministry
of Foreign
.Affairs, In terms' of personalities this change seems of little
v.
formation.
,.aignifioanoe since' both Konstantinov and, Iliohev,have been
career Party bureauorats for :- many- years with no special signs
of attachment to y'any"of the current 3.eaders. The same probably
applies to Major General'V,P. Moskovskyy, who has been head of
the R.S.F.S.R. branch of the Agitprop Department ever since its
rat ive
this department existed in two.. aeotiona. one
for administrative organs and.. the other for planning, trade and
finance organs, However,, a later reference (1959) has been aeon
/to the department
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to the department under the title ,of Department of Admini,etrative
Organs, suggesting that it has once more become a cornosite
one. Recent organizational trends in the rcin- tral committoer
of the Union Republics, which usually follow those of the
Central Committee, C.P.S.U. fairly olosel,''r, tend to confirm
this. 1958 or 1959 references to a co,nposite department of
Administrative Organs in central committees have been seen in
all republics except the Ukraine and Belorussia (separate
departments of Administrative and Planning, Trade and Finance
Organs) and Kazakhstan (position obscure),
14. As in other departments which have been described, there
are two regional branches of the Administrative Organs Depart-
ment.
The Department' is probably
responsible inter alia for general political direction of and
appointments to the police and procuratorial organs, including
the new "people's militia". Its functions also include organizing
elections to local soviets, seeing that politically sound candidates
are put forward, etc? Yet another function seems to be political
control of the Armed Forces, probably shared with the Chief
Political Directorate of the latter, which is still described
as a Department of the Central Committees It is not surprising
that changes in the control of a political organ of such sensi-
tivity are little publicized,
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branch, It is 'not lczown whowrzs appointed Head when the branch
was organized about the time of the XXth Party Congress. How-
ever, V.V. Zolotukhin, who was identified as Deputy Head in
August 1955 '(before' the Department was divided) had become
Head: of the Union Republics Btrioh 1r August 1957. As in the
case of the Party Organs Departrent it is possible that intrigues
were conducted by the "anti-,Party group" In-an-attempt tc bring
"their man" into this Department. Yiltiatever s'dc'Zolotukhin was
he did not last long as Head. By February 1958 he haC. 50X1-HUM
been relegated to his former position of Deputy Head and re-
placed by Colonel general A.S. Zheltov, former Head of the Red
Army Political Directorate. In view of Zheltovts role in. the
anti-.Beria movea in'1953 (he was appointed to the Red Army
Political Directorate during the Beria show-down in July 1953)
and'ilso in thj moves against Zhukov in 1957, it seems that he
was?' at that time regarded by Khruehohev. . as a useful ally. "Pravda"
d L `August 1959 revealed that Zheltov was no longer Head of the
Administrative Department but had become Head of the Lenin a.W itary
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16. Prom its formation-as' a separate t ranch in 1955-1956., the
RGS.x'.S.R, branch of the Administrative Organs Department was
in the charge of A.N. Kidin, a foxnier obkom secretary, in early
1959 'Kidin'was made First Seoretaxy of th i Ud=,t obkom and dies
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suggests a possible interest by P.R. Kozlov?in his career (see
below, paragraph 17). His successor is probably Iironov,
who was 'described as Head of an un-named department of the
Cent ral'-Ctiimit' ee when attending a confference of the Party
aec;ret'aries of the 4,ioseow Military Distri,t in August 1959.
The fact that IrIironov was Head of the K.G.B. Ldministration
of the Leningrad oblast in 1957 suggests that his appearance
in the centra:, apparatus may be due .to the influence of P.R.
I~ozl.ov.
VI. The Agricultural Departmt~ent,.
17. Two 'branches of this Department - for Union Republics
and for the R. S.P. S. R. - have existed since 1955. Khrushchev
seems to have made sure from the outset that this; Department,
crucial as it then was for his innovatory policies, was firmly
under his control. Two former subordinates of his, P.E. Doroshenko
(ex-Ukraine) and V.P. .i,iylarsho ikov ?(:ex-IIosoow :obkom) were in
charge of the- Department, (the Union Republics and R.S.P.S.R.
branches respectivelk)'from.the time when it was split into two
branches until 1959. Recent changes in the leadership of the
Agricultural Depart,-aent are puzzling and there are some grounds
for thinking that P.R. Kozlov may be manoeuvring to place
supporters here also. This Department has probably been under
the supervision of N.G. Ignatov and these moves may therefore
be directed partly against him. About April 1959 G.I. Vorobiev
was made Head of the R. S. P. S. R. branch in place of I, ylarshchikov.
There are several points of interest in?Vorobies's career
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suggesting a link with Kozlov.. Not only did he work in Leningrad
from at least 1951 until 1957 as a Kozlov subordinate in various
Party and Government agricultural posts, but. also upon leaving
his position as Chairman of the Leningrad cblis elkom in .1955
he was made First Secretary of the Udmurt.A,,S.B,R,1s Party
oommittee. The Udmurt.A.S.S..R.. seems to be an area in which
Kozlov has a special interest'sincehe worked there in the
Party network of the Izhevsk gqr
from 1939 to 1944, There
-kcm is yet ainothez hint that the oonneotion between Kozlov, Vorobiev
and the..Udmurt. A. S. S. R. may not ,be ' entirely fortuitous.. 'A
former subordinate of.Kozlov in'the Udmurt.Party organization
and also in Leningrad, V.N. Novikov, was made Chairman of the
R.S.P.S.R. Goaplan and First Deputy Charman of its Council of
1 inisters not long after Kozlov's promotion to full membership
of the Presidium in 1957?
189. Doroshenko's suooessor as Head of -the Union Republics
branch of the Agricultural Department is G.A. Denisov, ex-First
Secretary of the Saratov obkom.. Denisop-,w 4d. appear- to be a
firm supporter of Khrushohev and has no obvious 13:ika with
other members of the Presidium. At.the XXIst Party Congress
he was one of those who spoke out most'. strongly against the
anti-Party group"...
VII. The Industrial Departments.
19.
there were then four departmeents_ of the :Central
Committee. concerned with the _11 branohea ;of industry:
//heavy Industry,
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Heavy Industry, Hachine Building, Light Industry and Construction.
In addition there was a Transport and Communications Department.
afoct to reduce the number of those permanently employed in the
ap arat, these four departments were in the process of being
reduced a-o two. Apparently little success has been achieved in
this since there are recent (11959).referenoes to all these de-
partments except the,11achine Building Department (last reference
November 1957, al;hqugh it existed in the Ukrain.an Central
Committee as late as February 1959). It is not knovn,whether
~.n accordance with a. project then
the industrial departments are divided into R.S.F.S.R. and Union
Republics branches.
a) Heavy Industry Department. (Last reference June
1959 - departments of the same name noted in the
Ukrainian and Kazakh Central Committees in 1959).
Its Head since the XXth Party: Congress has been
A.P. Rudakov, a former subordinate of Khrushchev
and Kirichenko from the Ukraine;
Light Industry Department, also known as Light
Industry and Food Department, (Last reference
April 1959. A counterpart still existed in the
Ukrainian Central Committee in Hareh 1959). This
about
Department existed as a separate entity until/the
end of 1952, when it seems to have been absorbed
into the Industry and Transport Department. It
/was apparently
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was apparently re-established by July 1957. No
Head is known before L.I. Lubennikov, first identi-
fied in early 1959, ex-.First Secretary of the
Karelian o m `
his appointment
to the Light Industry Department may be a move toward
aohieving the promised -reduction in- the numbers - of
officials in the industrial departments;
Controtion Department, also known as Coristruotion
1959). The Head of thisI department since at least
Affairs Department, (Last 'ref erenoe` April . 1`9593
departments of the same name still existk5d-in .. the'
Turkmen ' and Kazakh central ooninittee s in 1958 and
July 1957 has been I.A. Grishmanovo Grishmanov
was a deputy mayor of Leningrad concerned with
ounstruction' aff air`s from 1951 onwards, and his
appointment may have been seouredby a Leningrad
group in the leadership. Although.Grishmanov was
appointed to' the a arat' 'apparently while P.R. Kozlov,
whose assooiatiorswith Leningrad are stronger than
those of any other member of the Presidium, was still
only a candidate member of that body, there may well
be personal ties 'between them;
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d) Transport and C ornnunioat ions Department. This
still existed in April 1959 (a counterpart depart-
'ment still existed in the Kazakh Central Committee
in August 1959). e have no information concerning
:' its'leading officials,
20? In 'addition to all these, a Department of Industry and
Transport of the Fc. S. P. S.R, was identified as late as :aroh. 1959
(there has been no reference to'a'Union Republics branch,.although
the majority of republican central committees still seem to have
such a department). Its Head since at least November "195 has
beori"`SA. Baskakov, a former Secretary of Perm obkom with no
kno*ti ties with any of the present leaders.
VIII. The Department of Science, Schools and Culture,
21# 'Singe at least 1956 there have been two branches, of this
Departineht for the Union Republic's and for the R. S. P. S. R.
22, The'Department is divided into two sections: the Culture
section acid the Science and Schools section.
The Science section
is in its turn divided into four sub-sections, each one having a
Head and two Deputy Heads,
23. The first sub-section ideals with natural sciences and
technology. In July 1957 it was staffed- by four officials,
including a biologist, a chemist and a physicist. It controls
the activi.ties.of the institutes for natural science and technology,
/the Academy of Sciences
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the Academy oft :Sole ,aes,: U.S.S.R. .arid- through the Republican
central obnznittees' the branches of the Aoaaexr -of Sciences in
the various 'Republica. Among the tasks of the sub-aeotion are
the oo-ord iat$ on of the activities of the . -i-arious aoademies
and responsibility for implementing central , oonmittee deoisions
organization and convening of , scientific. conferences. and . elabor-
on scientific matters, ? The sub-section also deals with:..the
ates.:proposals and -projects eonoerniug `these' which it ..submits
to the 'Central Committee.
24. TY $`-second sub.?seotion deals with sooialr. soiexoes.. It -
has six offloiala inoluding 'a. 'philosopher, . a historic i, an
economist and a lawyer. It carries out functions anajognua:::..
to the aoientificaub.-eeotion, `and:'directs the.'Institute.`of
Eoonbmios of the AcaderiW of So ier oea, 'the Institute of Philosop -,
the. Institute of 'History, the Institute of Slav ? .*U66., and
those of World toonorr r and International Relations, Ch1iese
studies, Oriental studies, etc. It played'a part in. i'whole
sale dismissal of the editorial board of. "V`opa*csy Istorit" early
in 1957 as. i i esuit' ' of an - unorthodox '3 de ologioaa:'` trend in their
Journal, this' decision, was
. t&6i
after long disousajon. inside the Seoretariit 6f`4tl a Cehtj-4.
t
Coinjttee which was based on a plan drawn up by the aoa~ o1: _.
sciences aub-section: In order to` draw -up the'plan, :,first, of
all the entire editorial board of . "Voprosy, Istorii" was rited"
to the section. Next s'- in ;T
195T a bigger maet3sig area he7
convened b 'the ..gatenoe and Culture' D epertment. and' the` Agit op
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Departtment at which were present not only the editorial, board
of the review but also the President and Vice President of the
Academy of Sciences and representatives from the Institute of
Social Sciences. For two days, eight to nine hour discussions
were held. At the next meeting of the Secretariat, the editors
of the review, Agitprop and Sciencse and Culture Department
officials, and finally Pospelov _md Suslov all spoke. After
this debate he decision to change the editorial board of the
review was approved. This account throws an interesting side.-
light on the functions of Pospelov and Suslov in the Secretariat
and also suggests that the Secretariat was able to take this
action without reference to the Presidium, in which Khrushchev
was then. facing considerable opposition.
25. The third sub-section deals with all universities and
higher educational institutions and the fourth sub-section deals
with secondary and. elementary schools.
26. In the Culture section of the Department there are three
sub-sections: literature; art, theatre and masio; and cine-
matography. The section maintains contact with the I;inistry
of Culture of the U.S.S.R., the republican central committees,
with publishing houses and with artists' and writers' unions.
27. Leadership of both branches of the Science and Culture
Department has been unchanged since the :rxth.Party Congress,
N.D. Ka.zmin (ex-Leningrad) having remained as Head of the
R.S.P.S.R. branch and V.A. Kirillin as Head of the Union
Republics branch, There are no indications of any special
/link with
SFrR FT
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link with Khrushoheb' or other. Presidium members in either case.-
Kazmin seems to have joined tht. a arat too early for. his pro--
motion to. be. plausibly ` attributed to the ?._ rilfl:zenoe of P.R.
K.ozlov, although as in the case of Grishmanov (paragxaphigo))?
.there may be persot.Lal. ties between them. .
IX. Fore!= Department.
28.? There. are, probably. at least two. departments. of the. Central
Committee dealing with the .:affairs .of foreign oom=uiist parties. 50X1-HUM
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gent,. way., .reorganized . in the spring of 1957. and now has separate
sections.. for ..various t1est :European countries, whereas before
then it. 1ad only a. general, West European. section.
a separate. Porei,gn Department was
also created for b~oc ,countries, headed by Yu.V. Andropov,
ex
Ambassador t'.Hungary, while B.N. Ponomarev,? who had been. overall
Head of the Department.. since at. least .'1951', had his sphere of
competence restricted to the oommuzist.parties of non-bloc...
oountrie~
A close observation of occasions an which Andropov
and Ponomarev have appeared shows that while the report may be
true as regards the former, Ponoma`r3v oonhinues to meet repres>
entativea from the bloc countries (e.g. the Chinese) and it was
/he, not Andropov,
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he
Kao Tse-tung in 19580 Ponomarev is also a leading Party idea-
logist and it seems unlikely that his..powers we ,e thus d unin:.shed.
Both Ponomarev and Andropov are career Party bureaucrats of
'"Long standing, and there are no indications tha+ they owe any
special allegiance to any of the present leaders. Their immediate
superiors in the Secretariat would appear to be Suslov, Pospelov
and Kuus h en.
29. There.may be yet. another department of the Central Committee
dealing with. foreign affairs: A.I. Orlov, who,. until.August 1957
had held diplomatic posts in East Germany was, from that date,
described as Head of a Department of the Central Committee. From
then onwards he was concerned with delegations to and from East
Germany, Hungary until in July 1959 he'. was appointed
Deputy I.iinister of Foreign Affairs. At a guess, ..;it. is possible
that his department was one exercising direct control over the
Foreign I.iinistry in the name of the. Central Committeeo
leading
30n In Appendix "B" we,,- list names of all/officials of the
a arat who have had dealings with foreign communist delegations
since 1956. They presumably, belong'.to',the'` oreiga Department and
the nationality of the delegations which-they medt?may give some
clue as to their sphere of competence in the, Department;
X. I iscellaneous Departments of the Central Connnittee.
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are obscure but it is possibly, connected in some manner with the
31.
/special sectors
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special sectors: ('whaoh still existed at any rate iri Amnia
as late as early 1958) and henoe `the 'security network. its
Head sine:.1954.` has 'been V;N.` .iaa.in, His 'baokground? is one
of Party:'wi k:?'in Belorussia in the''Tjarties and 'Forties until
he. benefitecY: f om. uhe i,en ngrad purge by be~.ng .eleoted 8eoreta zy
of the Leningrad oR_r in June 194.9. He held this post imi 3,
1952. when 6"1 .66
a).;: ?:.Administra -of Affairs,-
depart>ient. of?: the : e 'erat atul
this ie''"t" e' "housekeeping"
lt- 14c O'Cinobrn4d, with 'the'
budget.,, Party funds` and the --'general ? running' of_ day-to-day af,a3rs
:,. a. ; that. it is. a kinri of "?cihief ` 'olefrlr~ s dapartntent"
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was ? in charge of the department.
XI. C_ua, 3 .
33. ;., . The r os ~ interesting fact- which emerges 'from this sttzdr
of the oentr,al apparatus over the last three' Ceara is that two
former. subgx dinates :of r,%- 6ziov''in ` Leningrad have recently
been appointgd - ts'departmental heads:
rae Kozlvtt holds a govern-
post. ire ;:'Che .Pree3iium
nti~7. andas he~''is izot :a member of 'the'
Party .Seoretariat.*e should not normaIV e~gaeat him to be able
to.. . a a3:ee a direct. influence on appoihtnintj',to' the Party
appart} 1il4 ' . It see
pxa probable--'the'ref6re, that Khrushohev him-
self imst3 have sowed these appointments and that they reflect
his intention to strengthen `Koziov' g'"position.
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34, Any -moves wh;.ch ;inrrr ^ar Kozlov9 s status are likely to
enoroach .on the influenc> of Kozlov's colleagues, In this
instance the.person most closely affected would seem to je
A.IA Kiriohenkn, whom we know to be close to Khrushchev and
,vho is believed to be the Seoretarr respcnsible for cadres.
It is therefore of interest that, so far as wa know, during
the last three years none of the senior posts in the apparatus
has been given to persons with any obvious links with Kiriohenko?
It is possible that some of the deputy heads (e.g. those with
Ukrainian names) may owe their jobs to him, but we. know nothing
of their background. Those present department heads who have
served in the Ukraine underKhrushehev and Kiriohenko were
brought to Moscow several years ago, Their promotion must be
ascribed in the first place to Khrushchev rather than to Kiri
ohenko, although they would presumably support the latter if
Khrushehev died. The evidence of the last three years therefore
suggests that Khrushchev has, at the least, not encouraged Kiri-{
chenko to attempt to strengthen his hold on the central apparatus
and that, apparently as the result of Khrushohevta intervention,
Kirichenko has in fact lost some ground to Kozlov.
35. A.B. Aristov's post as Deputy Chairman of the Bureau of
the Central Committee for the R.S.F.S.R. should enable him to
manipulate some Party appointments. Although we cannot find
any obvious evidence that he has influenced appointments to
the apparatus., it is at any rate possible that, for example,
the posting of G.A. Denisov from Saratov to the Agricultural
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he would appear to be' an -outsider in 'airy f'uture' struggle `for
the suooession as did IQirushohev before Staling s death) but
it will, be necessary ''to 'iiiratoh' eloaely' f or aiV' siga that '?Mristoir
is build i l'Vi" a ful'lowiz g Of hiss ? oft"in 'the Party ehjne.
36. Changes in the 'apparatus have iri~ the 'removal 'of
several' off io a].e whom `ice have' s:1w$ye reg irded' 'a ' being c~:ose3 y
tied to 'Khrue1 o l i e v ? ? ' e rpret? tla?rr am'' a sign that Kh .ishdhev~ s
oonf'jdehoe' it his awn'aixthority`is s{i?h that he can a 'f'o'd., to'.
move' eonue of they props which were neoesaar i' whet he was -f g ting
for supreme power. The. alternative e> .s ati that the tra ism
fer of these' offioialc indioatee a: -moire against 'Khrnshohev oar
safely ?'be` disoount3d,
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HEADS AND, DEPUTY HEADS OF CENTRAL, C O1vfi ITTEE DEPARTMENT S
195x,
First identifications
I. DEPARTMENT OF PARTY ORGANS
FOR RSFSR
Head: V.M. Churaev (since 1955)
Deputy Heads: Ya. V. Storozhev
V.I. Tishchenko
M.M. Sevastyanov
FOR UNION,REPUBLICS
August 1959.
DP,uty Heads: I.V. Shikin
P.F. Pigalev
P.K. Yakovlev
II. DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANS
FOR RSPSR
Head: Present Head not definitely known (probably N.R..Mironov).
A.N. Kid in relieved about April.iay` 1959
Deputy Heads: N.S. Zenchenko June 1957
FOR UNION R PUBLICS
Head: Present Head not known. A.S. Zheltov relieved about
/August
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August 1959.
D~tn1t ad:a:. A4, Starteev
V.V. Zolotukhin,
III. DEPARTS OF AGRICULTURE
FOR RSFSR
IV . DEPARTMENT OF MVY-,' INDUSTRY
Head: A.P. Rudakov
Head: G.I. Vorobiev
Dewy Heads: V.A. Karlov
A. S. Mangazeev
G.L. Smirnov'
FOR UNION FiEP'UBLIC S
HO,d: G.A. Deni$ov
Deputy Heads: P.S. Krostyaninov
V.N. Ershov
P. Chaikin
Deputy Head: I;P.'Yaatre'bov
V. ' ' DE'ARTNIENT 0' ` LIGHT II ?USTRY
Head: L. I. Lubennikov
Had : I.A. Grishmanov
DeERty Heads: V.P. Aby.Wov
tuzova
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VII. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & TRANSPORT
FOR ROPER
Head: S.A. Baskakov
December 195L--
VIII. . DEPARTIMMMF T OF AGITATION AND PROPAGANDA
FOR RSFSR
Head : V.P. Moskovsky
Deputy Head : ' A.P. Kosulnikov
FOR UNION REPUBLICS
Head: L.F. Ilichev
Deputy Heads
A.V. Romanov
IX. DEPAR71 NT OF SC RVCE, SCHOOLS AND CULTURC
FOR RSPSR
Head: N.D. Kazlmin
Deputy Head: V.N. D?rbinov
Z. Tumanova
FOR UNION REPUBLICS
Head: V.A. Kiriliin
Deputy Head: D.Li. Kukin
X. GE___NERAL TECHNICAL D r 'AR'E vtENT (TECHNICAL SESEC TARI1';T)
ead: V.N. Malin
. XI. ADMINISTRATION OF A 'AIRS
Head: V.V. Pivovarov
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OFFICIALS TOUT TO YBD IN DEPARTMENTS QF CE L
C01r3MITTEE C WITH FEIN ? CC c. tmIST_PA S
Heads: B.N. Ponomarev gild Yu. V.;: Andr.opair
definition of functions see main text para. 28).
Deputy Heads and '!Re m, sible-'Officials" . o'ssib dorineoted
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D/Head`
B.P. k rosliniahenko
D/Head.
P.D: ~ineev.
V.I. Lesako.
" Bulgarian
" Chinese
B.P. Miroshnichenko.
D/Jib LN.. MQdvedev
Li.E. Pozolotin
I.N. 1:1edvedev
D/H&ad
I.S. - Shcherbakov
N. Medvedev
D/Head
BOP.- 'Miroshniohenka
D/ load
I.T. Vinogradov
/Concerned
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I.N. Medvedev
D/Head
I.T..Viaagrado
D/Head
East German
Hungarian
I.G. Kabin
P.V. Polyakov
I.N. Medvedev
D/Head
I.T. Vinograd
D/Head
K.I. Ivanov
/0oneerned
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!' Polish,
" Roan
I.N. 1Jedvedev
D/Head
P.P. Dzerzhinsky
Tishohenko
D/Bead
E.D. Karpe shcheko
: I.N. Medvedev
Yu "s3av
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