POLITBURO MEETING. Situation in Poland; future meeting between ANDROPOV, KANIA and JARUZELSKI; economic reforms & martial law [R 2 April 1981, Politburo], 7 pp (excerpts). ========================================== [page one of seven] Top Secret Single Copy (Draft Minutes) MEETING OF CPSU POLITBURO, 2 April 1981 chaired by Comrade L.I. BREZHNEV Comrades in attendance: Yu.V. Andropov, M.S. Gorbachev, … Continue reading Poland: meeting, reform, martial law (2 April ’81*, Pb)
KGB report (Chebrikov, feature photo). Proposed measures against "US anti-Soviet campaign related to human rights" and the corresponding Central Committee Resolution [R: 31 Jul 86, 1503-Ch] 4 pp. ===================================== [page one of four] Secret July 1986, No 1503-Ch To the CPSU Central Committee Measures to counter the anti-Soviet campaign in the USA about human rights … Continue reading Human Rights campaign (31 July ’86*, 1503-Ch)
* US concern about Shcharansky KGB MEMORANDUM. Reactions of US embassy (feature photo) and foreign press corps to measures taken against dissidents, particularly the arrest in mid-March of Anatoly SHCHARANSKY [R: 29 March 1977, 647-A]. 3 pp. ======================================================= [page one of three] Top secret State Security Committee [KGB] at the USSR Soviet of Ministers 29 … Continue reading US & Shcharansky (29 Mar ’77*, 647-A)
Report to Central Committee from the Soviet Ministry of Defence about the state of military supplies to Afghanistan. [R 31 Jul 89, No 312- 1-0297] total 2 pp. ============================= [page one of two] To Comrades:I.S. BelousovM.A. MoiseyevB.M. Belousov Please consider the rate at which warheads of R-17 missiles are being produced and supplied to the … Continue reading 31 July 1989* (No.312/1/0297) Military assistance
SECRETARIAT gives go-ahead for talks with director Francis Ford COPPOLA about a joint Soviet-American feature film about disarmament. Includes 12 July memorandum from Culture and International Departments (p. 3), and a letter (pp. 4-5) from the head of Goskino [R: 17 July 1979, St 167-18]. 5 pp. =============== [page one of five] Workers of all … Continue reading Coppola & US-Soviet film (17 Jul ’79*, St 167/18)
Discussing possibility of major US television network broadcasting Soviet TV film about Vietnam [R: 6 March 1967]. One page. ============================= [page one of one] Secret Copy No 1 Ref No. 170 3 March 1967 To the CPSU Central Committee The senior APN correspondent in the USA, Comrade G.A. Borovik, has sounded out the possibility of … Continue reading Vietnam film for US TV (6 Mar ’67*, No 170)
Request from US television company ABC for permission to film a TV-program about the life of a working-class Soviet family [R: 27 August 1966]. One page. ============================= [page one of one] Secret To the CPSU Central Committee The Novosti Press Agency [APN] has received a request from representatives of the American television company ABC to … Continue reading Novosti and the ABC TV company (27 Aug 1966*)
KGB MEMORANDUM. Soviet support for the “Black Panthers”, both in the USA and through contacts in African countries: a means of distracting the US administration [R: 28 April 1970 – 1128-A]. 2 pp. ================= [page one of two] Top Secret SPECIAL FILE USSR Committee for State Security [KGB] at the USSR Council of Ministers 28 … Continue reading Support Black Panthers (28 Apr ’70*, 1128-A)
