GEORGI MALENKOV - BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600030643-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 643
• Publication Date: March 31, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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v first appeared on the Soviet scene after the great purges and
l^ Georgi ?' P arr'ed out under the direction of the
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1,~i+_Ra+.ions of the 1930 s w}uc
dreaded j~y~C, former secretar9 of the "vim l'o), head Gf the .:~ ~ and Scvl.et
m{'Ztary intelligence. Ia the 1940's Malenkev was Stalin's new favorite and
ran Party affairs as the nrw Secrete-g of tae VIO? (b)?
Since World War II had started, it was nec~saY`
:oncentrate the bulk cf Soviet intelligence efforts against Germanys ~~ consider-
.... c receasa:y to for~iate plans for intelligence aetivities_taking
_-?~rr -tar tfe IISSH itse'4 W-uld probably be dress into the war.
behln.i ~-: Lr, ~olikov9 Ctdef of the i~U, beh_nd the! intelligence and counter-intell-
i-.-:.~ ,g?*artm?nyv of the NKVD- uses Male=ixcv in perso'n9 as a Politburo member
pers.^:y charged with 4ontrcl and general conduct (:f the intelligence and
.,ou: ; - _r.telligence agencies of the Soviet C'jaPerxment.
3. It is we'_L ~axown that Soviet diplomatic and tTOde poets is foreign countries Ne.e
;ked b? $ev',o; intelligence agencies as cover fan their agents. Navy, HU and tY.?-
NEDD x!.Te the chief rivals for these poste. Officially all vacancies were under
the ,iuri~dzc.ti..on of some official Scviez CoamdFiseriat such es Foreign 1Yadep
S+?ate Ilc~tmeat (Na~rlcrmdsbdel), or.sa agency such as Intourist or TASS. The people
who hraded these .hamiseariate and agencie@ (Molotov, 3dikoyana Anastas, T~avinaon,
ISrutikcv, etc' 31d cot always favor )3>j but could give pre~~iael~4l ~~~ mi
L^ s.~h uses the alaaow ~~tov~o~dtc oss~~?he dise~cti-es o? ia?+:.~ frie*~ds ,,` Lenin.
7, iiiie St91{~., Male~.:J rad nc f~,~rc~sl edu,:av : gin. B,-we~,rx, St$2i: got hi3 educatan in
t~tie 'evolu*.iG :a'y da?r_, Was Widely *ead, a^3 wa; ~ _!vwr ani sme.: `.. 0 *L~v~r heard
that Jd9.ie:skcv red g^:v *alea'e in tre !d~:;atit'r, 'i:F ar.i new~papc*s axt ?n.::arrect when
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a. of hi3 bcaiy and soul.
if!+aF Will *.he fu-rare brim with nch a mar r,:rri`g t.h~ IISSS7 .L
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_:r e. wn71e 3fal!,nkov will run the JSSR iu ate. ataas~.:.. cf Ftlvrer balance, making it
ap~ar }~~ f 'tom IISStR is actually briAg ~':?ra^ned by the 3Saleakcv-bpolc~.q-Beriya trium-
vts?ate. fihenD in some acnverj.eat i~.:t.ir!, in. order to make himself the reel d3otater
cf +:e :c>unt~9, ~alenkt_v will liquids+.?e ;,~ :c-qe+~k-ra is: the Stalin manner sa-.isfn8,
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12. ~ mgt tion then arises, why' did Stalin raise Maleakov to shah,a p~vesful positioa why
".lalova better than anv~one else ~].~nkov+s capabilities and limitations,(-
t wag _St3lin.~s tr;'f.~-^Tf{~~ i~ ..~` yOYC,~t4y iani he~, .Sia~ln, v8t8 1-ithOUt
peer. Stalin never tolerated people sa~rt~rr flrtmcre clever than himself in positia~s
aloes ~,, hims $C lixed z3 use ~, a clever pzapie and sas a master is this vie iu tlaatt
by indirect subordination ef'these epeaislis~s 3n the vaa~ious fields to hie a~i21, ho
managed tc> direct all vraise.-net to t~,.,ae ~....~,~~_~ _~
, - }.. wv yM, NiL4 Y.O iLl:mHelr, STA;Lia.
13. .italin~vas a strong min, a dictator such ~s,7yas never been ]mavn !~ historg b~afare. He
never cared for anyone, not his own people, his oomradEo or has fa4dlg~ and p~~ps
br~~Ting little ~1en;cov to paver was~his last trick. A trick to shoe that'without
Stalia.thiaga wai~ld'eolla~se far di6t&torshipe algays depend on?oae gersaa and nov that
_ that one person in the IISSB is goat, the system mas wal ~o too.
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