RUMOURS ABOUT MALENKOV
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyrighty NEW YORK, June 18.
Rumours were spreading throughout the Communist satellite nations that the Soviet Premier (Mr Georgi Malenkov) had been killed, Colonel Julius Amoss, a United States secret agent in World War 11, said tonight.
Colonel Amoss, World War II chief of the East European division of the Office of Strategic Services—the coun-ter-espionage organisation—is now an official of the International Services Information Foundation. The foundation is described as a private worldwide intelligence service. He said that although reports of the death Of the Soviet leader were only a rumour, “it is a verified fact that Mr Malenkov has been incommunicado for more than a month.”
Colonel Amoss added that his reports from Eastern Europe indicated that Mr Malenkov had died during an alleged struggle for power in the Kremlin after Stalin’s death.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27072, 22 June 1953, Page 13
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