“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 - 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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“Dunson’s absence.. Shmb 11. CONCLUSION. Depending on (a) how much time the Lito ran can give to it, and (b) how Fast Dunson’s printer can handlo it]he is just starting in on the printing of ETUIY Animal photo-bock / book should, with lnok, bo roady about 6 or8 wool” from 8 ”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“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”
“: 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”
“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”
“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”
“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 ■ ”
“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”
“NHHIATYH MEET 11:71790 / eCPTEi JVikl liov. 17, 1950 INSON PHONED FROM NY. , 10 b.m. .He will phone Shub now. Terhaps they can lunch together. Munson "definitely wints" the photo-book. Is agreeable to whatever w-size, etc., we think it should be.—Told him I had suggest”
“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 ”
“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”
“14-00000 (@what‘s relationship of Spanish edition tq has - fats some of the an Wil s Said to have copies in Brussels. I haven't seen. Brussels is used as , European MOEC MM0€C_- a headquarters for Western Europe. People going through either to China copyright problems?" ”
“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”
“Although Camilla (Kras Joan) PRM, of b Francis Avermo, Cambridge, P’assackumotts, writes on 11 October 1959 she would be hrpgy to translate oho of Subject’s novels, she must first be certain a publisher wants it. She does not want to repeat the unfortunate experience of Fleck”
“’ 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”
“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”
“its efforts, a photo book on nlperia, photo books on the 4 various regions and problems of algeria. Concurrently, he will be doing publications DEL- on Black African subjects, ta ing many, long swings through A-rica to gather the. inforation andphotos. He said, "You will be”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“is) for recruitment in 1952. I submitted the complete Section I of the PRR on him and we had a tentative arrangement that sometime in the future, whereever he might be, if approached by the organisation, he would work or cooperate with a temporary project, what ever the case ”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“they were forthwith removed for health and security reasons. (b) Just prior to his removal, it was discovered that Kelly had a oft. cash shortage of over 100 which was not accounted for in any way. When an attempt was made to collect the money, it was discovered that Kelly h”
“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”
“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”
“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 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”
“investigate. PRICE. "I could be 100% wrong on this estimate," but: it should cost a- minimum of $1.25 to print, and, if wo want to make 25, net $2.95 or $3.00 would be the minimum at which Brentano could retail it. / I i11 bet it will come too more than this. ASS.e.7-. Shub'”
“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”
“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”
“publisher 1(more or less) to finish it, before resuming work on the biography. - -v- deal with ..2 .- Since the photo-book and the biography have the same subject-matter, ---- — .I suppose there in a bare possibility that you could work on the photo-book during "office" hours”
“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”
“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 ”
“1 3 March 1951 DIMITROV signed a memorandum certifying that he had received three hundred dollars from Lawrence F. MacBRIDE, literary agent, representing a sum paid for a complete and unabridged option on the use and possible publica- « tion of three books written by me a”