* Concealing Stalin-era execution dates KGB REPORT (Semichastny; feature photo). Change in procedures for informing relatives about prisoners’ date of execution in the Stalin era [R: 25 December 1962, 3265-S], 4 pp. =================================== [page one of three; see page four] Top Secret USSR Committee for State Security [KGB] of the USSR Council of Ministers 25 … Continue reading Concealing execution dates (25 Dec ’62*, 3265-S)
Fake border post in Far East SECRETARIAT. Creation of the “Mill”, a fake border post in the Soviet Far East (1941-1949), to test the loyalty of individuals who were then arrested and imprisoned; many were shot [R: 4 October 1956, St 1061]. 9 pp (excerpt). ============================ [page one of nine] Top Secret To be returned, … Continue reading Fake border post [1] (4 Oct ’56*, St 1061)
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*)
POLITBURO. Provide "special equipment" to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) in exchange for a collection of art objects from the Ancient World [R: 27 Nov 84, Pb 185-49]. 2 pp. =============================== [page one of two] Return to CPSU Central Committee (General Department, Sector 1) within 3 days Workers of all Lands, … Continue reading Exchange equipment for art with DFLP (27 Nov 1984*, Pb 185/49)
KGB REPORT (Andropov to Brezhnev). The transfer of arms to "trusted KGB intelligence agent W. HADDAD" (feature photo), head of PFLP-EO, 'People's Liberation Front of Palestine-External Operations' [R: 16 May 1975, 1218-A-ov]. One page. ===================== [one page] Special Importance SPECIAL FILE USSR Committee of State Security [KGB] at the USSR Council of Ministers 16 May … Continue reading Arms to Haddad (16 May ’75*, 1218-A/ov)
KGB MEMORANDUM. ANDROPOV to BREZHNEV about meeting between KGB's Lebanon station chief and the leader of PFLP-EO (the People’s Liberation Front of Palestine, External Operations), Wadie HADDAD. Future collaboration discussed [R: 23 April 1974,1071-A-ov]. 2 pp. ============================== [page one of two] Top Secret Special Importance SPECIAL FILE USSR Committee of State Security [KGB] at the … Continue reading Meet Haddad (23 Apr ’74*, 1071-A/ov)
POLITBURO decision. Provide the Italian Communist Party (PCI) with “special training” for 12 people in case it has to go underground [R: 5 May 1974, Pb 136-53]. 4 pp. =============================== [page one of four] Return [etc. illegible] (General Department, sector 1) Workers of all Lands, Unite! COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION. CENTRAL COMMITTEE Top … Continue reading Italian CP: “Special training” (5 May ’74*, Pb 136/53)
