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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01443R000200040008-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Content Type: BIO

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Yudin is primarily a Party ideologist and
Journalist. He has had long service in Party
jobs, particularly was appointed, in 1948, as
editor of the Cominform Journal and has written
several theoretical items on such things as the
works of Stalin.
In August 1952, he reviewed fbr Pravda
the selected works of Mao Tse-Tung. He was relieved
as editor of the Cominform Journal by another
Journalist -- Mittin. Yudin is believed to be of
Jewish origin. At the Party Congress in October
of 1952, he was included as an alternate member
of the party's Presidium which replaced the
Politburo. However, some observers pointed out
at the time that he did not receive the prominence
that might be expected since several other
theoreticians were named as full members of the
Presidium over Yudin. He was elected a full member
of the Central Committee at that time.
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In the reorganization in March, after Stalin's
death, when the Presidium was cut from 34+ to 14
members, Yudin lost his job.
In April 1953, the Soviet Presidium announced
that Yudin was appointed to replace Semenov as
political advisor to the Soviet Control Commission
in Germany. However, Semenov, a month later,
returned to Germany as High Commissioner for Germany
and Yudin became one of his deputies. With regard.
to Yudin's associations with present Soviet
leaders, there is little firm evidence.
One source claims that Yudin's career
advanced independently of Malenkov, yet another
source claims that Yudin always maintained friendly
relations with Malenkov. Speculation at the time
of Yudin's appointment to Germany was that he had
been sent there to initiate a new policy. However,
the hard line that had been in evidence before his
appointment was continued during his tenure.
Semenov's return to Germany, over Yudin, suggests
that Yudin had been sent there to perform a holding
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Yudin's new appointment as Ambassador to China
comes just a week after he had returned to Germany
from the Soviet Union where he had been ostensibly
conferring with Soviet leaders and Walter Ulbricht.
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