L. P. BERIA HAS ESCAPED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00965R000400010011-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 15, 1953
• Content Type: CABLE

WASHINGTON POST NOV 15 1953
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P. brie has escaped. As early as 21 July (see RBI Special letter 21 and 23
) 101 m good reason to believe that the dread police chief bad escaped his
loos aM had lately ends his way to the mountain fhatoesses of Transcaucasia.
^ow, III is convinced that the retmant of Georgian domination of the Supreme Soviet
be. successfully marched through Georgia.
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WWI It11liMImv IS =AD. This is a rumor from 151 sources - repeat, this is a ra.r.
It is not an established fact. What is a fact is that the pudgy semi-dictator
has been bald imerasnadieado for sure than a month. For 30 days he has not been heard.
be bin not been ssen,'be has not been read.
A'fisses, possibly bloody, tussle is under way in the Kremlin.
As 21 be. long told you, Russia's peasants and workers are ready to rise.
As III has told you, satellite workers are ready to rise - as you read today in the
mess, they an rising)
This is unfortunate. It is not the time to rise. Our country, or so RBI believes
(without having any information from U. S. official sources), has not formulated
a fil policy; vs do not ]mow and our enslaved friends cannot know just what the
dea is.
MI,ENKOV RYDAOGEN-E* CLAD( IS WITLESS HYSTERICAL PAOPAGA1YDk.
AWICA EXPLODES, THEN TALKS. MAIZNKOV TAL1ffi, DOESN'T EXPLO .
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