QUIET RED VISITORS IN OUR MIDST: KOSYGIN SON-IN-LAW, MIKOYAN SON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000300310001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 18, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NOV.1 8-1964
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met ed Visitors in iur
?Kosy gin Son-in-Law Mikoyan
By Martin G. Berck ?
0/ The Nereid Tribune Staff
A gregarious, foKtyish Russian, his
; crewcut black hair 'flecked with gray.
? sat last week in a relatively Julnor''
tnited Nations committee. ? ? ? ?
. Not many dilpomats Were awalte'
;.
that he is a son-in-1aw IltiFsia's
?.riew Premier. Alexel N. Kosygin.
Nor was it generaliy known that
he is one of the Soivet Union's tori
;:management men, 'whOse decisions'
r govern what Comes out of Russia's
,factories, stores and laboratories.
He is Jermen M. Gvishiani. a man.
erT ? - ? ' ? ? ' ' '
i?Lwidely known, . to upper echelon
Amerienn corpwation executives,.
dozens of whom he conferred with
;? 'during a stay in. the United States
;that is scheduled to end today.
c?
-His visit is. sometqing of a high-
point in soft-sell .coekistenee. Some
; ?top Russians come and go without
,,any fanfare on what both Moscow
and Washington obviously consider.
!useful- missions?but missions, that
ti-would have beCri highly publicized a
1*,?? few years ago:
Another prime instance in Sergo,
1--Mikovan the 33-year-old son of
. .
? - .
?
.,....Ana.stas ? ? Milioyan, the Soviet
,
? Union's President and titular Chief
P'''of State, who, is also in this country
1.'''now, also traveling very quietly.
r The ? young Mikoyan is a scholar
? ' on the staff of the Institute of World
?
? Economy and International Affairs,
?:.it research organization in Moscow.
. ,
? ..,',:.c.a.;
:bvishianf. had not Other mission. He-.iI
? did not officially represent his gov...!.., .
? .erne.mt in talks with American ex441
-i i.: ?;: i ecutives and officials. Nor was he the.
.Unofficial envoy of his father-in-law111
-,a role that Alexei Adzhubei often:' ?
. played for his..fathet:-in-law, Nikita .1
',,S: KhrushclieV. ousted as Soviet Pri,:::1
;imier on Oct. ' 14... . i .?r'l
In Int. Mr. Gvishlani seemed to gn:
rf his way to keep his family re.,t;
4;.tionrih1p out of the spotlight. There I ?
I were indications* that he' held
''strong dislike for the way Mr. Adzhitat
f bei had, functioned as Mr: Khrul i
i'slichey's portege and messenger. At 40
',anY rate. Mr. Gvishia.nt inade it clearl : ?
1 . that he was speaking only .tor hiniself.?'1,t
But as a top-level planner in his'
.,
. own right, Mr. Gvishiani gave the ....
.Impression that .the new Russian,-
* ?
41?reeime will go considerably furthetsi',1-9',
:than Mr. Ithrushchey did in develop-'
ling accords vSith the West. .
1, r .
? A feeling was conveyed that the:!,
:Imen now running the Soviet Union 'ii.
.E.
;will work even more for expansion of,'?
'ItraJe and for more consumer goods,'!.:
ithat economic ? policies will be sub- .)
!sta ntially liberalized, and that any
',future rapprochment with Commit-
;fist China need not adversely affect4
.iEast-West ties.'
..! Mr. Gvishiani's trip to New York;
.i, his third, was scheduled long in
, vance of .the Soviet :government
shaketip.'lle was, attending a sessiOn,.-4!
i of . the UN's Advisory Committee on it
lithe Application of Science and Teal- ill
1?nology to Development, an 48-man 1
.1 group of ? experts who do not repre-
sent their, governments, but are am,
IpOinted by the Economic and 'Social:4
Olere on a month-long trip. that [council:
) seste_ta.ry:,:,iqviete;
Upon nomination. :,bYl; the
.t'liegan Oct. 28,, he has been calling n? 7 ? - ?
?
I..: :. ? - &al
..,,, .,..,.:: :-,?:1: ,
on university faculty members and i : ? .
' ? : t specialbits in economic proble,s et, . i, ., , .?:::?
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