POSSIBLE SUCCESSORS TO MME PANDIT, INDIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007100390008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 23, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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T'anriPt Nehru Is conaideri,1v tY following as possible successors to Mtge,
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Mahomednli Cairrim Che'la, C',ier' J' stice of Bombay
R- jI-rmari Pmrit Kaur, "9nster of TJcalt,h, Government of India (GC'I)
T3 Diwak^r, for uty Minister for Information, 4 001
C''ap1a, whore 'Tehr,z .fa.v->rs "or t' e xtost, ;s a pro-Soviet intellectual who
,e] pod. to i naupurate the Soviet Cine 'Vest val l r Bombay. His favorable
cadge eats i7 cases involving ComMuni st detenues rude him xtonular with
'eftists In that area.*
3. The final arnoi ntrent for tT~e ambassadorial nest will be made in Anri).
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y' ga.nath R.ar*iacT,andra
Diwakar, PR, n-ister of State, Tniorr?at ion and Froadcasting, GOT.
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.:~ An indPnendent and ,,n,Upertatr7 Ssn,Mre In RMMb V rerrpntlY
reported C'- a. gl a r.s he? ng the president of trie soviet Cine Film Cot? part'
of Bombay, which connany indulges mainly in propaganda fil *_s for the
Soviet. Union. 'f.h-' s source believes, however, that Chagla is interested
in Soviet films solely from n cultural point of view and is not pro-
Communist.
This document is hereby regraded to
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