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...reports of the public pot-tossing and private lives of the Presidium bosses and their personal disagreements with one another. Says the Times's Welles Hangen: "Soviet censorship is becoming less severe, but it remains arbitrary and capricious." For example, when the ouster of Internal Affairs Minister Sergei Kruglov was revealed in a back-page item in Pravda, the Times bureau filed a story at 6 a.m. labeling Kruglov's successor as a Khrushchev man. It passed. That afternoon Hangen wrote a second-day story elaborating on the same theme. It was killed...
...Rising Deputy. When Stalin split the unwieldy Soviet security apparatus into two branches, Kruglov became MVD boss, controlling a crack security army of a million men. His deputy: Colonel Ivan Serov. After Stalin's death. Internal Affairs Minister Beria began liquidating top security bosses, but before he had gone far-or far enough-he was himself arrested. The day of Beria's arrest. Kruglov's troops blocked all exits and entrances to Moscow, froze the city tight. The same day, Premier Malenkov named Kruglov Minister of Internal Affairs in place of Beria...
...star of Georgy Malenkov and his technocrat-commissars was on the wane, that of Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev rapidly rising. Shortly after Malenkov's dramatic resignation (February 1955), the world learned that Kruglov was not, after all, top Soviet security man, but that there had existed for some months a higher State Security Committee, presided over by Kruglov's former deputy Ivan Serov. When Khrushchev went junketing to India, it was Serov who went along with him. Meanwhile, Minister Kruglov's department was under oblique criticism: his organization had failed to curb abuses in such pet Khrushchev...
Seven Lines in Pravda. But the big tip-off that all was not well with Kruglov came recently with the report that six former NKVD interrogators had been tried and executed for the murder of Ordzhonikidze, who in 1937 was said to have died naturally. Last week a seven-line paragraph on the back page of Pravda announced that Kruglov had been "released"' and would be replaced by Nikolai P. Dudorov, a little-known bureaucrat with Khrushchev connections...
...labyrinthine politics of Soviet power, control of the police apparatus is vital. Khrushchev and his party cadres have apparently gained one more sector on the eve of this week's 20th Party Congress. But they still advance carefully. The Pravda announcement referred to Kruglov as "comrade," indicating that he was not, so far, an "enemy of the people." All five previous bosses of Russia's secret police either died at their jobs or were executed shortly after being removed...