SECRETARIAT. Request from CPUSA leadership for part of the debt incurred in distributing Soviet books to be written off [R: 5 January 1982 – St 44-7]. One page.

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Workers of the world, unite!

Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Central Committee

Top Secret

No. St-44/7s

Extract from Minutes of CPSU Central Committee Secretariat Meeting (No. 44), 5 January 1982

Concerning the request of the CPUSA leadership

To satisfy the request of the leadership of the Communist Party USA and to allow the Ministry of Foreign Trade [V/O Mezhdunarodnaia kniga] to write off part of the debts for Soviet literature delivered in 1971-1981 — 400,000 foreign-currency rubles from the company, Imported Publications; and 60,400 foreign-currency rubles from the International Publishers — at the expense of the financing of export operations.

CENTRAL COMMITTEE SECRETARY

Sent to:

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NOTES

[Translator’s notes are bracketed]

Translated by Marta Olynyk

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