SOVIET ACTIVITY IN THE CAUCASUS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100070046-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: December 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT 25X1A
COUNTRY !M52/Iran
SUBJECT soviet etivity in the Caucasus
25X1A
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THEMEANING OF TITLE IS. SECTIONS 793
AND 794. OF THE U.S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REYE?
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
TED BY LA W. THE REPRODUCTION OF T EP RT I PR H TE .
25X1X THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
DATE DISTR. /7 oEC.53
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1. Inspectors have been arriving in Tbilisi ( iflis) with a view to r new Corwun1st
Party purge. They have been collecting all information available in the vicinit~r,
n s a preliminary move,,
The local loaders are accused of having neglected their duties and havini been
in their work? arrests already made include. Serj Nizenko. Serif ?:tjariev, 7eker',a
Goroditso, Vasi Rabilevski, and. Etem Nalidov (or Mafidov . f:1l these people come
from the vicinity of Kublis.
3. There is also a suppression of 6.loslems who are accused of ideas contrary try those of
the regime, ^, decree (No, 353) has directed the closing of 187 rnosq,ues. t the
same time the following Moslem chiefs have been arrested: Mollo fekizade TevziA
Recap Ooutbek, Musa Goeurgun. llilmi Nemridov, Tlyas ":blG k Bek Lthi.s name i. known
to hove been mutilated in transmission but cannot at present be corrected l:Durwi.i
Onartug and Uuseyin Akayev.
4, The "lovIet authorities are doing; their very best to support the natal aid Labour.,.
Kurdish tribes of northern Iran. Tudeh agents have already been able to e:;tablIsh
friendly relations and a degree of cooperation between. the two tribes, which hrcve
hitherto boon rivals and somewhat estranged. Contraband arms are boin,; delivered
to these tribes.
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