MOSCOW EMBASSY CABLE RE: FURTHER IMMEDIATE REACTION TO COMPOSITION OF NEW SOVIET PARTY ORGANS

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2001
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• Publication Date: October 13, 1952
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Emb's further imtediate reaction to composition new party organs
EMBTEL 685, Oct 17 is that:
(1) Presidium breaks down into four groups (A) ten Members old
P* litburo; ( ) two.secys old CC'plus chairman old party control
comm (respectively, Ponomarenko, Suslov and Shkiryatov); (0)
Thur econ Specialists (MaIyshev for,machine-building, Saburov
for pl nnihg, Pervukhin for electrical and chemical industries,
Kuznet ov for trade unions and six party and ideological special-
ists) Leningrad party secy Andrianov; Ignatev, who in past has
been central comit tr Uble-Shooter; (party secy Melnikov;
Chelyabinsk oblaSt party secy Aristov; edit r "PROBLEMS OF PHIL-
OSOPHY" Chesnokbv; KoMsOmdl Secy Mikhailov); (D) and two others,
who because of age or status may be moreor less honorary members
(Kuusinen, who is chairman Presidium of Katelo-Finn SuPreMe SQV
and 71 years *ld, nd Kor tchenko, who is chairman UKR Council M. qs)
(2) Candidate -members seem to break down into three' grOups: (A)
three who posaess both party and'specialist qua1ification8 (Min
Light Industry Kosygin,-wh -wet member.id Politburo; Pegov? *ho
was Chief Light Industry Section old CC; Yudin!,'WhO is Chairman
Cominform Journal Editorial Board);'(B) four. specialists (Vyshinsky
for Fon Affairs; Zverev for Finance; Tevosyan for ferr*1:18 metalurgy;
Kabanov, who may be specialist for electrical induatri);'(C) four
p rty functionarie (Moldavian Party SecylitezhneV, Ktosnodar
Krai'Party Secy Ignatov, Belorussian Party Secy Patolichev,
Kuibyshev Oblast Party Secy Puzanov).
(3) Secretariat breaks down irit? two gr ups: (A) five members
old Secretariat (Stalin, Malenk v, Ponomarenko,'Susloy, Khrushchev
( ) five new embers (Aristov, Brezhnev, Ignatov, Mikhailov, Pegod.
(4)' :Shkiyati.v has been Promoted from dePuty chairman old Party
Control Comm of which Andreyev was chairman t chairman new comite
of party controL
(5) Moskatov keeps old job as chairm n new Central Auditing Comm.
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Perhaps worth nOting that of Presidium members other than old
Politburo, seven are-knOwn tO be 50 yeara.old- or younger
(POn Marenko, Suslov, Andrianov, Malyahev, Pervukhin, Melnikov,
Mikhailov).
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Notes Relayed to Bonn 10/17/52, 113 p.
Relayed to IBSNY, 10/17/52, 3 P.m., 'UP
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