BIOGRAPHIC DATA ON NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700160154-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 154
• Publication Date: January 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Danube-Press
Paris, 25 Oct 1953
Hikita I4urushchcv, the new number-two man in the Soviet hierarchy, is
still relatively unknown in the free world. Most Western newspapers have
identified him as a Ukrainian and as representing the liberal point of view
in the Communist Party concerring the rights of non-Russians in the Soviet
Union.
But this is not the case. Khrushchev was born in 1894 at Kursk, of a
peasant family. He is a Russian; no member of his family is of Ukrainian
extraction.
During World War I, he was a private in the Tsarist Army. He held the
same rank in the Red Army in the early years of the Revolution.
In 1921, IOarushchev was sent, as a worker, to the Donbass mining basin.
This was his first contact with the U'.waine.
In 1935, he became secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party. In 1938, Stalin gave him the mission of purging the Ukrainian Commu-
nist Party at Kiev. He is a sworn enemy of the Ukrainian autonomists.
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