“13-00000 H MAR 18 ‘97 06:59PM 4/3/78 HARDWAY P.14 Summais 0 of QKOPERA/L ERBLESS file 7/1/61 -8/28/04 on isThe Company Praege concerned r Publist I 2. A memo fry du as W. Beck "CA/PRop"dated 8/21/6) deals En the publication problems and.royalty of Milova Ch”
“isclose that subject was in correspondence with a publishing house in East Berlin during recent mont hs”
“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”
“. 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”
“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 $”
“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”
“14-00000 / I 18 Oct. 1950 Air-mail to SHUB * OK Please don’t approach any publishers until you hoar roro. Another vory hopoful possibility has coco up. A - Adele is horo and says to send you her love. N As D-day approached to treut you are taking aspirin every hour ■ ”
“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”
“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”
“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 to 459 2 Re "Stalin'1 bio-Taphy and/or Stalln photo-book. inane That leaves’ the question whether you are supposed to be working on In completion of the "Stalin" biography or on the Stalin photo-book, or on both. That is your own proference? (1).■ On the on”
“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”
“' 2. to para, 4 of the above-mentioned agreement (16 Sept. 1950), according to which "You will be required to transfer the gross royalties to CIA..." (This agreement was also drafted by Ur. Kelley). There doesn’t seem to be any difficulties of substance there., There has be”
“13-00000 P. 17 18 ‘97 07:00PM WUs/ HUNTSUMMARY files rev4 iew ed Hardway 4/7/78 ECPOEN -WURABBIT) folder 7, Box 2 Correspondence 2 (WICIRABBIT) Termination Folder I; Box 1 3. MPS Project file (WUPUNDITe) apo. included in 64 1 ANY INC (condui Ce Instit ND * 99 ”
“14-00000 ■ 2 to LST, and there is or was a contract with Vanguard. " First, 1 was instructed to draw up a Frojact to subsidize David Shub to complete the biography. Later I was told the t Doris had boon sent to NC, with Dacruccione to complete it himself. IST, a few days”
“contract as Agent comes up for . renewal, could be considered. At any rate, in the interests of keeping hiss morale up during the final phases of work on the book, I suggest the whole i matter should be handled not too brusquely.. RE "COlUNIST 200", and refusal of many US reta”
“14-00000 -COPooct ?3 January 1951 Mr. Richards (Legal) phoned, on behalf of lr. Zelley, re the Contract between H plsYt CLA re disposition of royalties. He said Tr. Kelley had referred it to his, with soce such insacs message as: "SY to let it stand as it is, if appropri”
“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”
“MOSCOW IN 1989; AND A DOCUMENTARY ON OSWALD'S BIZARRE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE KGB. * "DOCUDRAMAS ON THE<ASSASSINATION>OF LEON TROTSKY AND THE CASE OF NATO OFFICIAL ROBERT LEE JOHNSON, KNOWN AS 'THE AMERICAN KIM PHILBY,' ARE ALSO PLANNED." FOR THE RECORD, WE HAVE NOTED THAT S”
“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”
“14-00000 SECRET/NOFORN CNTNUED CONTROL -10• 15. Correspor tonee pidtrosni to Subject at Yarto 14, San Angel, a) Letter from Kindler Vorlog, Lucile-drain-Ctrarse 37, Munich 8, Derany, dated 15 September 1959 and signed by Dr. 7. 3. RAIRATZ. IMVDT acknowledges receipt of ”
“14-00000 CRET 4 was. ■ I took lodging in their house as a stranger. My own children called me uncle, and grew up without knowing that the man who boarded in their house was in reality thair own father.’" (I Chose Justice, p.336). (19) KATYN & OSWISCIN, etc. We can of cour”
“into shape for the printer in April or May. "99". N-nmi ad: When this is written up as a Project, it will be a Sub-project unders-9-"0" EMFUNNY. KMFUNNY, approved long ago, includes a Recommendation (para 5)—."—* ".. that the sune of $40,000 be appropriated for the development”
“14-00000 3 simplest to have the actual copyright in your name alone (ho could acsieh his share to you), 30 that are arrongerzents for foreign rublieation could be made with the minimum delay over the legal and security aspects. If I got it right, as of July 31 you had a”
“14-00000 - — Io-O-R-A-F-T Av.. 6 Nov. 1950 TO SNUB a vla HY,00, hand-carriod; who can keep this and any later letters for Slub to consult from time to time if necessary/ 4 lie can transmit periodic reports of progress via KY/O. sterilized ones direct Doar Boris, 8”
“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”
“14-00000 -■ AIR. TysmTSoN 25 August I950 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD SUBJECT; Confaronca of, JBHI, Stab and Sine, Aug, 25. ra "STALIN". photo book. (1) Some 202 photos were examined; the best, about 67, obtained by Shub in NY, the others furnished by CIA Graphics; plus some ”
“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 ”
“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”
“510 West: 110 Street New York 25, New York March 22, 1951 Dear Sill: Picture book now in high, gear as layout is beginning to take shape. New pictures of both historical and photographic pricelessness still coming in e.g. a shot showing a wildly cheering crowd of Russian p”
“: 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”
“/ 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”
“14-00000 • . V8ss* CONTINUE# CONTROL 0. d) An envelope addressed to Dr. Eberhard PRUNING, Englisobod Dititut - Der Universitat Loipaig, Univorsitatatr. 3 - 5, Leipsif, C 1, oneloson a document in the Coman language. The document concerns an anand ont to a publishers’ ag”
“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”
“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”
“14-00000 fey QUARYTLY REPORT ------ 6 Oct. ‘50 SECEt. KMFUR:IY: This project la to prodico a book of animal photon with satirical anti-Comunist captions for publication in Franco, It in boing developed with the assistance of Clarence A. Barnes, author of the best- celling ”
“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”
“to the Agency, two of the twelve photographs, other than the one already published in the Warren Co mmission report. (It is these two that he has published in The New York Review of Books article which Mr. Belin attaches to his memorandum.) I 7. It seems to me that whoever makes ”
“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”
“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”
“the Chinese at Bern, the source of his funds. 1 |'Verges debts total $30, 000? Now he must have cleared avay at least the big debt vith the original French printer. I said 30, 000, 000 francs or Kessel Tesalconfirmed that it vas about that amount, caatet about $60,000. Last”
“14-00000 asio 4FA9 07 File STALIN FHOTO BOOK uuuup. From CPU’s LOG, 2. May 1951 Bill Kintner has suggested that Mr. Burris Meyer consult with’lir Boris Shub in New York tomorrow on themes for black PT against the USSR, rinky and I see no objection to this meeting, and I”
“54-00000 Doo, 18,1950 Dear Boring. Swolst - - I’ve phoned our friend and will be seeing him tomorrow corning. _—I do hope senothing or other may bring so to How York —though-fe 8& there‘a noimodiate proapoot - of it— as it: would be grout fun to foregather, 3/1 — Incide”
“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 3 /2 it J. it would be simplest to have them in yours alone from the start (or he could assign his to you), so that arrangements for foreign publication / perhaps by Swon_/ could be made with the minimi delay muoxbiga over the legal and security aspects. If I g”
“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”
“that Robs. If. FEADLSY,tuxx contract agent, has instructions from IST, eftor finishing • the "Stalin" photo-book, to nouploto a biography of Stalin, for publication e in the U.S. under his con nono; with the expectation of foreign editions to A Nolic. HSS SECBES <”
“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”
“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”
“Theatrical (Attaornent 14) and Litorary a) Letter from Dili, fatad 2h September 1959, is signed by Dr. Vojtoch ETokJ. Subject in requested to mend another copy of him-pley Knek PiL for the Slovak translation. b) Lotter fron Cilia, dated 29 September 1959, is eirned by "Barn”