"POSSIBLE NEW ASSIGNMENTS OF MARSHALS TIMOSHENKO, VASILEVSKY, ROKOSSOVSKY, AND ZHUKOV"

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001900110011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 22, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For. Release 2006/01/03 : CIA-RDP82-00457R00190QA7f00f1-1
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFOR ATION REPORT
SUBJECT Possible New Ansi+onrnents of Ma shale Tiraoshenko, NO. OF PAGES 1
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$'o?;ethsr several Soviet Arr_.. rstrsha for the p'irrnse of niv1 nr; them new
assir'nr ents. s1ars'nal Sererr Timoshenko was ap-
pointed Deputy urrerie or-antler of t oviet -Ar"w, rRarshal Aleksand?
I"ikhailovich Vasileski was appointed Chief of the General Staf#',' ''/^rshal
Konstanrim L Rokossovsky was arrxointed Cormander in Chief of 'the '/astern
Ar" ies '(over Marshal Sokkolovskv in Gerr.^any-.and Col. 'Gen. Kurasov in Austria)"
and 'arshal *Georp, C. ' Z'iizkov was desi"naated as the -urrerae corr'arder for pos-
e.ible orerationn in the.3alkan theater.
nm s For sore time there has been no ,indication of the nature
of Timoghenko's assignment Vasilevsky has been Chief of tl^e General Staff
since at least Deeer..ber`1946-; therefore, this ` is not a net?r assignment. A
nunber of r. mrors to the effect that Rokossovsky's corrand wild be, expanded 25X1
to,includp, Germany"Ave circulated recently, but have received no'confirr^ation;
mean+?rhile there have been uryhis eringa about the possible rex+facement of
Sokolov:ky..
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