“14-00000 ,4 otulrul 30 Aug. 150 Gave SNUB Amson’s file of magasije articles on Stalin (which ho doesn’t went returned), and Cranksham article of 25-6-50 in Sunday ...... NY Times" magasino "AGAIN TI ATLE FOR LESIN’S UNrLzn, marked "Please return to WSS when & if you can ”
“/ 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”
“. 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”
“And (b) in they usoji my photos from Life’s files, as mall as from agoncios. he will have to got permission for that too. should all be if Stab koops up his.cover as private citison. uss CCs hr. Winston Stalin" photo-book file. SECRET”
“0 0 0 9 9 2 C 1 T 2 0 0 -9 - ZL May 1951 If you decide you really need any of these, ploane let me know promptly, citing the XYZmxber, so I can got the necessary permission. Colt shouldn’t be too difficult to got perminh, especially for M NW ***20 082, 3,6,47 There are ”
“refers to the books by I. and Anders, t 4 * M..Photog. The NY Times, serialining Charchill, 9 Nov. 1950, had, if you are interested in irony or impudence or whatever, eruthor blurred photo. Preleaseds at the time by SOVFOTO,” which Sorfoto described as showing members of th”
“14-00000 i 5 Sept. 1950 To Boris Shmub $10 W.no S% Thanks for rocoipt. —They expest to have the photos ready tomorrows tnother arrangements are proceeding apace and in the suplest ooner. teo Thought you’d like to coe tids editorials 1 ncn-matermark 1, I 1 { ”
“couldn’t do the job. "White Collar Zoo9 is pages in all, of whish 74 pages have photos. 7 photos won’t boomif. a long shot. The story 00 absorbing, properly told, that 15) or more photos wouldn’t a bit too ruch. F Ank K that about the ooonomies of “The Cardinal", where Simon ”
“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”
“1 list of every one of their correspondents, magazines, etc. Everyone got one.A So we were doing well. And he could have, actually, on the English edition whichhad Nawever).) much lower cost than the others, he could have broken ruwebutturs v e .m a n s m s tu n C h * * -J ”
“14-00000 -2 (8) Publication to bo in tho US. first, with a viog to subsidisation (if nocdebary) of editions (possibly abridged) in Western Europe end eloowhoro. (9) Fublishor. JBIII:"Duoll would be lousy. You’d got no advertising. Simon & Sonustor would be excellent if yo”
“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”
“14-00000 ■ i 6, ■r LETTER TO BORIS SHUB Sopt. 11, 1950 Dick hopos to 000 you in poroon noct wookond. Voanshilo I entirely O to go ohood. The copyright should I all la your nomes Lay-cit assistant should bo offered only a fixed foe, —half domn. half on publication. Alo”
“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”
“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 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 ”
“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”
“14-00000 -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”
“1 4-00000 bis” AM "SM"RCK CAM 3PROJECT (for Monthly Report, 27 April's.) Publloation of a book of photos with text exposing ovila of Stalin and this rogino throughout him career. *.* ex Croat progress has boon aide in cooctiling the bock, by BOB.PS I. HADLEY ard a collabo”
“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 27 June ‘50 1 Ror “STALIN" FEOTO-BOK. Tergst Stalls. vl Daciothem: Stalin means E13, For publication ina to be suitable for publication in any country. France to start zith. Itegi B: "It should b so good that Stalin himself couldn’t answer it. Captions to be ”
“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”
“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 • . 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”
“’ P R A R -A H A L L g ** . ' SECRET ‘ Ni/au2240.ci8uG Re: KMFUNNY............ .and "STALIN" PHOTO-BOOKS SINS saw MUNSON in his hotel, Dec. 19, 1950 % Munson leaves for NY this evening. OK to leave messages for him to phone. Re KOKE-BOOK. He mentioned a contemplated po”
“photos and captions, andi ho mente anything done down haro he will let so knoe. Iiadni Bmmb wrote ro, December 14. 3 .029 , - 23 "This 10 just a brief note to give you tho latest on man. the picture front. I won’t fill you in on the details because our mutual friend/ Juncon.”
“from a Russian ariend, and has sent to London for confirmation —seen nothing in the papers about it here— that there has been formed in London a BRITISH SOCIETY FOR A KS RUSSIA, with Ma jor Hilton (anthor and ex-military attache in Moscow) as president and the Duchess of Athol”
“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”
“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 <”
“over to the undersigned a sample of his translation efforts —see the attached book. In response to my query. Subject admitted that his work again was of such * nature that he was a free agent, cane and went as he pleased, and generally was responsible to no one. Apparently in”
“month, and much morelikely 2 or 3 months in actual. practice, wouldn’t you?) I have been keeping a file of everything done in the photo-book line, such as "Life’s Picture History of World War II" and . - . ep: - -% : - * 3 - s to produce *m the 1,000 photos of .. "The Life of”
“llo wants to see it sold on newsstands ' * among other placoss." 9 Munson toldm January 8 he had boon Shub about a week boforo, and "lo should be rolling pretty soon." : 10. FLASH: Shmb: just phoned, lis said I had proved correct on the point that "Having the book all picture”
“14-00000 / Pi Fit COPY. September 2, 1950 o’ Roceivod from Robert y. Hoddley the sun of one hundred (100) dollars in as rirt payment for services in procuring photographs for f- the Stalin picture book project. W. J. Green —original given to. John Bischoff P 5 Se”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“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 ”
“14-00000 CORATNUED- 9CONTROL - b). Subject’s check payable to Larry Edenindo Bookshop Is one losed in an envelope addrozeod to the bookshop and . postmarked 3 October 1952. Also oneloood La the letter listed above, on whion TULT2 has aided his comments, noting that S has”
“MR BRIAN- ■ 25 August 1950 MLORANOUL FOR RECORD SUBJECT Conference of JAIJ. SJaib ond ino. Sits, 25, ro "STALL" photo book. (1) Socio 20g /photos were examined, the best, about 67, obtained by Shub in NY, the othord furniahst W CIA Graphics, plus some magesino articles with”
“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”
“Hachette during layouts for them, until the great Sinet Massacre scandal, when Mad. de Gaulle finally took umbrage at this. He and Sinet were the two car- toonists who put this out, and (Strelkoff can draw, as well) • r pOnK*.E. A S tr R AN:MIPEH wire Wits Yes. In those t”
“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”
“When in the early part of ‘1955 it became obvious that my University cover was not only weak but also identified with my targets and thereby creating a. security dilemma, I began exploring the possibilities of utilizing my secondary cover which was "street photography". Finan”
“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 ”
“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 ■ ”
“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”
“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 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”
“14-00000 #- 28 Aug. I950 BORIS Mrs. Poland is going to got the duplicates made just sa fast as sho can. She couldn’t give a time limit on it this a.A Incidentally, ro the 68 photos for which you got tho agonoios" bill of about $150 this morning, she says agonaion like t”