“or classified. EYES ONLY رہو NW 65924 Docld:32400624 Page-3 -2- SECRET C SECRET EVES ONLY UNRelated 6. The writer indicated that the idea had merit and that possibly. he could be given some technical support on a covert basis. The writer wanted to know who would publish this, or ”
“an quite a letter, but I an confident that if will be read xikxx--and even core important-- looked at, with absorbed interest this year, next and tends years from note That is more inportant, it will make cinvincing, I am certain, what no words, written or spoken, can ever m”
“CIA. He "has seen" it; i.e., presumably has seen "the sterilized notes Shub made of it, —since Shub retained no copy ol-e • . LUNSON understands that SITSN will own all rights to the book. I.e., SRN will simply step into theplace of CIA in the above agreement." I.e., SEI, .on”
“e added that he already had conceived three plots that he felt would be suitable in this connection. 7. The writer, as mentioned above, encouraged Mr. Kennedy but stated he could make no substantial commitment, but that he would like to discuss these proposals with Chief, SRS and”
“14-00000 P560 th SECRIS 17 April 1951 . eeng-T 1 FOR QUARTERLY RIPCRT 1 Ploaca change part on =STALIK= PHOTO COOK PROJECT as follomss a. Swon Publishing Company will publish and is mooting expanses. ' L Delete the rest of this para. - 1' o. Dock will consist of some 1”
“. 2 - is a mador wor -a co-plete pictorial Hist y not only of the i, atb >n setting that produced his, Ie international ratifications at are 60 much a part or h life, is intriji-s ions. Zoxexzxoamkiexexen :dxxxx But what is even .t tures i ODC rijoins, we are reacting: e s”
“13-00000 Tim Stress SolieBb minor pout of possi Russ b le interest toAn M. St e vens in he novel etal, is info we had That draft / M ay. lette waofslifound (al l egedl y noleum coverin Saik ) under SlAlsoainstill boardquestion rather than a nug. of who may have w”
“***** u.st-3"AludwsVPrsis bone %8 OCErI-rAl. nr ne C T 12 Jon. 1951 Stull 1NOJEX REs Aepoonpet (16 Sept. 1950) botzocn CIA Fe e You will recall that in tho agreement, which you droa up and which too signed 16 Sopt. 1950 by lr. Eohols end POB:IT I. ECDLSY, it in provide”
“CONTACTS IK ■PAPERBACK BOOK PUBLISHING INDUSTRY# * When I realized that with very little "padding" such as contacts with paperback book publishers in addition to my —legitimate correspondence with magazines, thla writing career could be very adequate cover, I made the recommend”
“13-00000 3 TER 5: inerts dee-, secerns. PANTHEON BOOKS MADISON AVENUE/ NEW YORK 0012 A BEVISION OF RANIVUM HOUS , IN Pcdla 3 Banoeire 427 M PANTHEON AD Miss Margaret Randell ISO try. 9 Apartado Postal 13-546 NA Mexico 13, D.F. V H685W EN GET O”
“isclose that subject was in correspondence with a publishing house in East Berlin during recent mont hs”
“Our ' friend will f 111 you in on the rests what remains to be done, how-to do it, etc. xitacx Of onia thing you , may be sure: If my collaborator stays with the project and if no act of God intervenes, the final product, wi11 be.the picture. boox of all time. He wants to see”
“14 (.- 1 Bill: Thi want Shubto be told that aw to complete his picture book hear that he is merelym promoting Choice. What are the fact $? When the picture book be finished? I also you to devise a system whereby we can check: Shub’s progress. Lastly, we Id never allo”
“14-00000 -2 Biltroro recently / with IST_/. But your letter of November 8, 1950 had thite footnotes ‘Ploaco be sure not to say anything at all to anyone about the mutin frinn who won contioped at lunch / Dupson_/s very Ampor Lante ho’ll explain shy when and if ho sees you”
“SECRET 18 May 1951 RE "STAI.HOTHOTO TOOK W.09323 (also KMUaNY Communist Zoo) SDS saw LUNSON from 11 to 12.40 09B09 A the rough review of the whole set-up. Munson stressed two points: (1) "The book must be locked up by July 31." Otherwise it couldn’t be printed in Sep”
“boon bald by up not only by the above, 2 but —toing painfully human— by a lingering cosiro to koop TIE CHOICE e from being embalmed in the Donothing, Sloth & Pierde Funoral Parlors. I’ve now given it about all I’vo got and sill do ty darnodost he not to allce it - to causedi”
“14-00000 9000 C-0-P-Y CrePET 4:E6 • 1739 N St Nf Nov. 13, 1950 Dear Boris, Many thanks for your excellent letter of the 13th, which I got this evening, and all the good news about "The Choice", which I’ll .share •"I’ll try to clarify about our mutual friend /lnson_/ j”
“book that Molotov & Stalin would squirm when they read it, . and have no answer to. Then it will be good for publication anywhere," (1) Shub to move to NYC September 1.- W.SS. (V) Shmub to pay NYC associates $100.2 w.S.S.o for the photos they have already obtained,, plus $”
“2 or 3 days and work with Shub onit. NB: He said that, later, it might be possible for Shub to introduce ma . to his collaborator as an informal consultant whom he’d called in. In other and Security words, in attempting to sell our views of it to Shub, wo have also the prob”
“14-00000 CONFIDENTIAL 30 Oct. 150 geoncy: 0209-2- IR, THOMPSON (1) X just phoned Shmub and asked him to got in touch mith you at the Biltmore around 9 a.n. Thursday, in re having lunch with you.• '(2) His phone in ACadony 2-0164, 510 Gest 110th St. N(3) To "STALL" PH”
“14-00000 [ 1- 25 Sept. 1950 [To St] Ko you probably man in yesterday’s "II. Y. Times Book Revlow",, 1 sucos & SCHUSTER will bo the. publishers this fall of "The Life of FI in Photo raphe and Toxt" (ale) Stefan Lorant, and of LIFete Picture History of Forld Her 11% ,Al”
“150 sterilized CIA Graphics photos, which we selected last summer. None of them could actually be printed, published, without a release from CIA Graphics, 1 therefore urged Lunson to urge Shub to work up a good cover story about them, vis-a-vis his collaborator, Munson said he”
“Copy of letter from LELVIN LASKY dated 21 May 1950, New York City "Dear Jia, "I have just finished with the press conference here at Freedom House. I think Beichman managed a nice turn-out -- Hartrich of the Reruld-Tribune, Da Id Anderson of the Times, Henry Beckkett of e ”
“/ Warch 3, 1951 Dear Bill: Good to hear fro. you, even though your letter, as usual, too brierefor aty. a petite. Frod "our mutual . I do about jours.1 [a top Life lay-out man] C.fend willida" you owtore about activities than COP joratora *dcelgAl a fad 1te the as, i”
“: I. A-4 ankod if we had access to the rest of the book. I answered that to my knowledge these were the only tworcee chapters available at the moment. I conjectured that perhaps they were beng proofread, re written, etc., chapter by chapter And that these were the first two w”
“captions. We should make a book that Molotov & Stalin would squirm when they road 16, and have no answer to. Then it will to good for publication enythero,” - (11) Slmb to move to ITYC Septoober 1.' WSS W.S.S. (12) Shub to pay inC associates $100 for the photos they havo ”
“14-00000 DR-A-P-T y/00waS D 7 Nov. 1950 To SHCB M F.T D-R-A c/0 LITTAUrR, who can keep this and subsequent letters in his safe, filed under HEADLEY, for Sizib to 4consult from time to time, if necessary. Sterilized letters, dealing with details of his work, I can ex”
“progress, you have pado to date." "*.. "Again lot co onphasiso the great enthusiasm so have for the ,. s-photo-book, and our complete confidence that it will have your own “brilliant, informed and incisive touch when completed." 28 Peer PANE: 30 5. Simb replied eweetor 110.57 ”
“their files— the main remaining problem "will be: how to combine retention of high quality, ile, adequate reproduction OSMof as many photos as they need to tall the story the way they feel it should 3 edbe told, with quantity, i.e. sale at a low enough price to make possible p”
“December 14, 1950 Dear Bill: This is jest a brief note to give you the latest on the picture front. I won't fill you in on the details because our mutual friendwi11 be in Washington early next week an d will give you all the dope. Suffice it to say that my collaborator as”
“14-00000 1 1 15 Sept. 1950 To BoRis S80B. Just thinking out loud. If you care to call it thinking. Call it- "revolt in the provinces", "Trotskyist deviationism" if you like. But don’t let it upset your digestion. --This will be a wonderful book. Really woll done, it shou”
“the 4g " o ra l 4AtiM 4 ceat19* / SECRET - file "STALIN" FHOTO-BOOK a 2 3 * h > F i t MlkRatite4. • 20 Feb. 1951 Re SHUB and BRAINWAVE.* At request of lir. linston I phoned * Shub (AC-2-0164) to ask 3 5 about progress on the Photo-book, and what is the earliest date”
“13-00000 MAR 31 '97 12:03PM P.1 SK WORKS A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed BEN R. RICH AND LEO JANOS LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK TORONTO LONDON”
“criticism to‘ the effect that the - booklet bears no Trade Union logotype, whereas he should know: porfectly well that lithographed material never does. ;'’■ SCHILLER should simply be told: “Put out so many copies of the Great Swindle*" Alternatively, the geoegraphic Division”
“satirical captions, in many languages_/ be approved in principle and a sum of $40,000 be appropriated for the development and distribution of. Bird!ar photobooks, a t the discretion of Chief. SP." L Anyhow, let’s get on with the book and, if noces sary, amend KMFUNNY or write”
“resuming work on the biography? If so, that might be an argument for completing the biography first. X SEsiisjM . . • , Please give me all relevant details as to the current status with Vang ard. : As far as, anyone here knows, you have only oral instructions to complete the”
“this opportunity to send you my book, "Medical Psycho- logy", in three volumes of which this is Vol. I. I think I have covered everything of interest to you. Hoping to hear , from you soon, and with best wishes, I am. JAB/el enc. DJJES”
“VI91 ULINA IL 10.- V \ %$ 0 00 3. Page 63, line 21; the name ("Frank Holcomb"^ Mr. Holcomb retired under cover and xy.s past relationship with the CIA should not be exposed. It is additionally recommended that the entire paragraph wherein Mr. Holcomb's name appears (lines”
“publication in Jeutnh Currents an article or travel letter about any one of Ua countries he visited recently. 0) Letter fron Ceienne & Society, 30 East 20th Street, Nov York 3, D.Xe, dated 2d September 1959 and signed by T. E. 11.TOP, recrotary. { wolfsh press cuttings will ”
“(6) Publication to be in the US first, with a view to subsidization (if necoss^sy) of editions (possibly abridged) in Western Europe and elsewhere, ------ • . - • (9) Publisher. JBIII: "Duoll would be lousy, You’d get no advertising, Simon & Schuster would be excellent if you”
“14-00 SECRET 23 August 1976 0 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD' SUBJECT: Call from Jon French of DCD Concerning Frank - STURGIS - 1. The following information was provided to Jon French by his DCD Miami office on 23 August. The information, was given to the DCD Miami office”
“eros' SECRET" cl0,D 16 apil 1951‘ DCAFT FOR QUARTS LY RS-GNYT. "STALIN" PIDTO-BOCK PROJECT: publication of a book of photos with text exposing the treacheries, brutality, ote,, of Stalin and his regins throughout' ear. a Suon Publishing Company will publish and is meeting ”
“14-00000 To Shed 29 Ang. *50 1 IFrranS & TIkIsON 200 Madison Avenue See Kenneth Littauer so & SCHIST A published "The Baby 2 & "The Frenchman" & “Happy Holiday" DOUBLSDAY & CO, published the "Coo" books ‘ 1 Se x 196( address LONI Book "I am not crazy enuf to want a ”
“4-00000 . 31 January 1967 4 Dear Sir: I as the Italian journalist Luigi Do Marchi who had, the honor of a brief interview with you on the 13th of January. - I have tried, up to now without .success , to get together with K.L . you again to continue our conversation. I ”
“TO BE COMPILED BY willianso, in conjunction ti th SP. Williamson to be paid his fully daily rate, to enable him to neglect his fers regular work.q Force Curiere (The Cast Us the (6) BOOK TO BE SIGNED BY? Howard Hunt suggests, in France, some organization such aa the Polish”
“approved in principle and a sum of $40,000 bo appropriated for the development and distribution of "similar photobooks a t the discretion of Chief, SP." LAnyhow, let’a got cm with the bool end, if noceo sary, amend RHFUNSI/Y or write up a new project, lator /. IA (5). Took to b”
“COrIDHTiAl 15 Jemary 1951 oEABET IN. THOIPSON SUBJECT, OLictiLB Shub’s work for SP. 15 Jan. 151 3. Ho is a covert "contract agent", contract expiring Ast Dec, 1951,. 2, As for os I know, he ie working only on the stal.mePHOTO-Boox, : a book of probably some 150 photos-”
“14-00000 COMING TELEGRAM Department of Stale 5:0 250 Ttl&R.tfH BR.NCH 26 SECRET Aitic Centre: 11327 Rec’d: April 23, 1951 IE TOM: Frankfort 4:51 p.m. ( Ids TO: Secretary of State P ■GER No: : 8583 April 23, 8 p.m. OLI CIA DCR Recent discussions with Lunt, INP, pam”
“r i k onbeine R A n - n t e d l .1 SECRET KSDLST wrote no roomily shit the book the now at a stage whovo ant of the work had to bo done hin collaborator. Sina his noss la to - 1AC13 utbeiygihi A"19 appoci on is, X Lmlno ho will still have to put in quit a bit of time on ”
“I it lifo, one of those $25,000 por onrum mon. For the present ho doesn’t want hi association alth the picture book known to his employer for bovural good and coxpolling rodoons. (Including the , fear th t they would plagiarizo the idea). But in the final stages he’ll have ”