ALEKSEI A. CHVEDOV, FIRST SECRETARY OF THE SOVIET LEGATION IN CAIRO

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 7, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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Aleksei A. Chvedovs, First Secretary of
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o urce reports the following data on Alekaei A..Cbvedov, First Secretary of the
Soviet Legation, Cairo:
ao Born abourb 394, probably in Lloscowo USSR.
b. Religion: Russian Orthodox.
eo Education: Political School, Ubscowo
do Languages: Russian (native); good. French; some 11.11gligh.
eo Rote Address: 2 Sharia Combonip Zamalek, Cairo.
10 Personal description (as of May 1948): 5 feetsi.8 inches :Lam
medium build; chestnut;colored hair; brown eyes; mustache.
Subject was a bachelor.
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Career: Has been a member of the Communist Party-of the Soviet
Union since the age of 16, Trained for three years
in a. propaganda school endues for tab years Secretary
to Berl% former head of the IIRVD, now called the LIVD.
Appointed First Searetary'at the Soviet Legation in
Cairo on 17 Decerber Cavedur deals nainlywith
political subjects and the preparation of political
reports. Has several timen been reported in clOse
touch with various satellite legations in Cairo,
especially
especially the 7Ugoslavi Hungarian, and Rumanians
Paid frequent visits to the Riarianian Legation soon
after it was established in June 1948, and rmortec.112r
.----qtlastioned personally all the servants there to
establidh their identities and Mixes for service.
h. Recent
Activities:
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On 2 August 3948, Chvedov had a long conversation
with Peter Nar,. then Charg6 dvAffalres at the
Hungarian Lege:Vous apparently in COID/OCtiAll with
the tightening up of security measures at that
Legation,
In June 1948 h..1 wee 'reported to have taken over
from Ivan Yanambos the Tess correspondent in
Cairo, the tall of liaison with the Yugoslav
Legation, In the weeks before his defection '
and night in Dctobsr 19480 Makin Chahinpachic,
than *Yugoslav Charge dtAffaires, was in increasingly
frequent tonc..1 with Chvedovp who seen to have been
the chief _Instigator of his defection,
Some time in l7l6 Chvedov is reported to have been
in trachr together with Yanchenlop with a local
rey.esentativet. f the Jewish Agency, named
BoAs irahanoval
In liovp-mber.1914.8 and January 1949 Chvedov visited
fibs Greek Patriarch in Alectendria to arrange the
roplacevent of Deithterev- (deported by the Egyptian
iuth.orities) by Prozorovo as priest of the Russian
Jrblaodax Church in Alexandriao
it, source re torts Chveciov to be flextremely inquisitiveon
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