CHANGES IN POLITICAL LEADERS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000200040021-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: May 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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REORGANIZE COMMUNIST PARTY IN - LOvL;1cf -Zurich, Neue Zurcher ZeitunL,
23 Oct
pre~?ue radio report ~a that the Oentral Committee of the S~.ovak CommU"'
nisi ?arty has decided. to reorganize the Party leadership in Slovakia on
the ba,~z ~' s of a precedent set by the changes in leadership of the Czecho
Slovak Corrtmu~. n' st party which took place :Ln September. Thus, for example,
the position of the Secretar7 General is abolished, and th.e duties of the
party Secretar'y which dealt with training Party personnel have been ass-
sumed by the party Ch.airmarn.
The position of deputy to the Secretary Gen-
oral has been abolished as well; four secretaries of the Central Corr>mitw
tee, stovansky, Jan pull, Koloman Mosko, and Milos Dobiorowsky,
Stefan a
have been chosen in their stead. These men will constitute the Secretar-
iat of the Central Committee and will be under the supervision of the
party Chairman
According g to the Czechoslovak press Office, Foreign. Minister Siroky
has taken over the functions of former party Secretary General, Rudolf
lansky, Foreign Minister Siroky is the Deputy Chairman of the Slovak
Comlrrunist party.
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qN OF "()VFRNN T , Pra;;ue, 'laidve Naviny,
REP~rZT Si~mT~3FR REORG.RNIZ, TT
12 Sept ~l
adent of the ~lavak Board of
As a replacement for Karol l3aca.l.ek, Pr~,~ a.
1 was named Min,lster of State Control,
isaicners, who an 8 eptet~iber 1a~
Gomm
? ~ he n&~rnF~ of Julius Duris, at present l~~inis~t.a~x
the Prime Minister submitted t,h
of agriculture.
,, mister of Agriculture to replace ;~uriso
Josef rlr~porm,~.cl~y was appointed M
Nepamucky, a representatiVe to the National AsemhJ.y, was installed on 11
Uepterri,;er 1951? Those prevent at the cermonies were prune Nliriister ~.ntan:in
a otacky, Chairman of the Office of the president Bohurnil C,erva.celc, and
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who represented the Chief of the Political Department
Dr ~1ktor Knapp wh .,
the prime Minist, the government appoin
A.cting upan the suggestion of
Slovak oard of Commissioners on 11 Sep-
~~wd Julius ruris Chairman of . the tember. The same afte'noon, prime Minister Antonin Zapotacky presided at his
thane present were Minister of the Interior
forma:/ installation. Amang Office
, rs Josef Krasny and Jan Zelenka, repres,ne.tin the Vacla.v NoE~,ek and I.1
of the prime I~iinister..
~~ er 1951, the government discussed, and eff'ec~
At the meeting of 11 aepternb
e~:,ent deputy rran.isters in th~:~ae departments
ted the replacement of all pr ~~~
where reorganization had been rc~mpleted; i.e. in the Ministries of 1? V
and Light Industry, Agriculture, Domestic Trade,. Construction, Labor and
~, Simultaneously, new deputies ~rere appoin_
} oc~.al Welfare, and Food lndusl,ry. ~
? es; ;fate Contra/, Fuel and power, MetallurgY
fed in the following ma.nistra,
Machine building, general Machine ~u~.lding,
and are Mines, Chemicals, Hear Agriculture, Forests and the Wood Industry, Domestic Trade,
Light Tndus dry, onstructionaManpdwer, and Food Industry.
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Ol?D BIOGRAPH1C1, IC~CH O ~OnICI ~ Prague, S,a,dove Noviny, 12 Sept 1
;OF JOSE F NFT'~', Josef epomucky, Minister of Agriculture, was born at predbo j, on 12
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small farmer. He was jailedfor his part,icipa~
October 1897, the son of a
strike of December 1920. He has been an active member
ta.an in ~he general of the Cammun since its inception and is now the head of the
~.st , party (KSC )
uvaz fomkaxu (Union of Small HomepOwners).
During the days of the first Republic he was elected to the ASefflb1Y
tYte
aa representative of the CommuniS t party.
After 19)45, he became first a
and. later Chairman of the JSCZ (United Federation of Czech
Deputy Chairman
he was elected to the National Assembly. Ile has
Agriculturalists), ..and.
been a member of the Central Committee of the KSC since 194 ?
FtiEST flOTEt
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ST H LUT ED
JOp .P ue, L~,dove Nova.ny, 23 sec ~~.
IAR EL}~ CT D Y CZECH PE,OPL R
` .LOJ~
EChoslova~ peop~.e~ s 1'art~r unanimously
The Central Gomrru,ttee a~ the C2 enta.tave
oae~' Plojh~.r to be its president. ~. ~~epres
Bleated Minister of Health ~ ' s~,1 as ~;ener~l
~'oa~:f Gee"mot was chosen to replace representat1 e Antona.n pospa
secretary of the party.
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