CENTRAL COMMITTEE. Positive response to request for "special training" from El Salvador Communist Party. Includes 15 August letter from Chernyaev, and 23 July translated letter from head of the Salvador Communist Party Shafik Handal [R: 18 August 1980, St 224-71]. 3 pp. =============================== [page one of three] No St 224/71, 18 August 1980 Top Secret … Continue reading Request for “special training” from El Salvador CP: 18 August 1980* (St 224/71)
SECRETARIAT, International Department. Provide “special training” for 10 individuals from Argentina; three from Panama; three from El Salvador; and three from Uruguay [R: 27 December 1976, St 37-37]. 4 pp (excerpt). =============================== [page one of four] St 38/36, 30 December 1976 Top Secret SPECIAL FILE RESOLUTION Of the CPSU Central Committee Secretariat Issue raised by … Continue reading Special Training for South Americans (27 Dec 1976*, St 37/37)
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)
POLITBURO decision. A highly classified Politburo document illustrating financial relations between the PCI (Italian Communist Party) and the Soviet Union. The amount in dollars was added by hand [R: 18 January 1983, Pb 94-52]. One page. ================ [one page] Workers of all Lands, Unite! Must be returned within three days to the CPSU Central Committee … Continue reading PCI funding (18 Jan ’83*, Pb 94/52)
KGB REPORT. Meeting in the Netherlands between a KGB source and Count Georg-Volkmar ZEDTWITZ von ARNIM, Krupp corporation director, on behalf of West German SPD [R: 9 September 1969, 2273-A], 2 pp. ====================================== [page one of two] SPECIAL FILE Top Secret USSR Committee for State Security [KGB] at the USSR Council of Ministers 9 September … Continue reading Krupp, KGB & FRG contacts (9 Sept ’69*, 2273-A)
Intentions of Crimean Tatars to appeal to the United Nations. A memorandum passed to the Central Committee by the KGB concerning Pyotr GRIGORENKO's remarks [R: 10 June 1968, 1342-A]. One page. ============================= [Page one of one] USSR Committee for State Security [KGB] at the USSR Council of Ministers 10 June 1968, No. 1342-AMoscow Secret To … Continue reading Crimean Tatars appeal to UN (10 June 1968*, 1342-A)
«The Stalin Years, 1929-1953» The Bukovsky Archives contain relatively little on the Stalin era. The majority of files focus on the period when Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Union's other long-serving leader (1964-1982), was in power. Yet Brezhnev, too, first came to prominence within the Party during Stalin's time. * STALIN For over twenty years Stalin … Continue reading A QUOTA FOR KILLINGS: The Great Terror and its long-term impact
Giovanni Cervetti (PCI) visit to Moscow. SECRETARIAT Resolution. Visit to the Soviet Union by Giovanni CERVETTI [feature photo], a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) leadership, during which financial matters were to be discussed. Includes 4 October 1979 (25-S-1803) memorandum from ZAGLADIN [R: 5 October 1979, St 179-32]. 3 pp. =============================== [page one of … Continue reading Cervetti (PCI) in Moscow (5 Oct ’79*, St 179/32)
NKVD in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic requests an increase of 30,000 people in Ukraine's quota for executions and arrests. Politburo agrees [R 17 February 1938, Pb 58-57]. ============================== [page one of one] Workers of All Lands, Unite! STRICTLY SECRET (Special File) CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) Pb 58/57 17 February 1938 … Continue reading Great Terror in Ukraine (17 Feb ’38*, Pb 58/57)
The Bukovsky Archives 