BIOGRAPHIC DATA ON NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV

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CREST [1]

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General CIA Records [2]

Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):

CIA-RDP80-00809A000700160154-2

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RIPPUB

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December 22, 2016

Document Release Date:

September 8, 2011

Sequence Number:

154

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Publication Date:

January 25, 1954

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REPORT

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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/08: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700160154-2 STAT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/08: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700160154-2 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/08: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700160154-2 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. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/08: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700160154-2