PERSONNEL OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000600800009-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 23, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNT 11Y USSR,/`ESTONTA
SUBJECT Personnel of the New Government
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the Soviet-Estonian Government is being carried on in the
manner usually employed by the Communists. That is, the highest legislative
and administrative bodies in Estonia are being directed through a system of
special Soviet representation. Russian representatives arrived in Estonia
after the Russian occupation. Officially they do not rank at the top of the
body to which they belong, but instead direst their activities from a 1wer
station. The majority of the people in Estonia are not aware of the power
and importance possessed by these representatives, who are thus enabled to
direct the affairs of the country in relative peace and quiet without b,)ing
obliged to face any expression of dissatisfaction from the local inhabitants.
The "strong man" of the Soviet-Estonian Cabinet is said to be the Deputy Prime
Minister K. Boitsov, a Russian Communist, representing the Party Bureau..
The Estonian Communist Party is the organization in which most power is ooncen-
trsted. This party is directed by three secretaries: Nikolia Karotamm, Sazonov,
a n d Kuzmin. Karotamm was born in T8stamaa, Estonia. In early c od he move
to Russia where he later became a member of the Communist Party. He is a grad-
uate of the Academy for Communist Agitation. When he arrived in Estonia in 1940
he was appointed Second Secretary of the Estonian Communist Party and a member
of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party. At present Karotammn is
First Secretary of the Party and main representative to the Estonian public.
Sazonov and Kuzmin are both Russians who arrived in Estonia after 1944.
the direct representative of the Kremlin's Politbureau and
the real source of power in Soviet-Estonia is Vladimir Stepanovich Jefrtnov,
a well known Communist leader of Leningrad. O i c a11y hen [e am m er 't? the
Presidency of the Soviet-Estonian High Council, but in reality he is t "strong
man" of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Estonian Communist Committee
Party or Party Bureau. Jefromov Is said to have held this power in Estonian
Government since 1944. He started as a Party organizer of the Kirov Fa,;tory
in Leningrad, proceeded to the post of secretary of the Party Committee of the
Kirov District, and during the war was secretary of the Party Committee for
Propaganda in Leningrad. For superior achievements in organization he was dec-
orated several times during the war. He was sent to Estonia to aid the Estonian
Communist Party in organization activities, but it is rumored that his main task
is the organization of a fight against the capitalist nationalists who still
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& The Presidency of the new High Court of Justice in Cstonia is held by R. Tim,
assisted by one De uty E. Grabbe. These :nen were members of the Eston
Conunist Party bare the first Russian occupation in 1940, and were first
appointed to judicial positions at that time. Other members of the Judicial
Department are the folloi ing: Oskar JUrgenson, Adamson, Annus, Evertson,
LepP, Elisabet Oda, P1der, i-iilja Suvorov, L. ssa , 3nd Mar' .n.
This document contains information affecting
the national defense of he United States
within the meaning of the Espionage Act,
50, U.S.C. 31 and 32, as amended, Its
transmission or the revelation of its
contents in any manner to an unauthorized
person is prohibited by law.
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