KGB MEMORANDUM. Samizdat publication in Obninsk by Zhores MEDVEDEV (feature photo) of Solzhenitsyn’s book "The First Circle". KGB plans to detain Pyotr YAKIR with copies of the typescript [R: 31 July 1967, 1931-A]. 3 pp. * "The First Circle", samizdat publication (31 July '67*, 1931-A) * =============================== [page one of three] Secret USSR Committee for … Continue reading Solzhenitsyn’s “First Circle” (31 July ’67* A)
KGB REPORT. Admiration of physicist Lev LANDAU (feature photo) for the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and his comments about Bolshevik fascism [R: 19 December 1957]. 17 pp (Excerpt). * Landau [1]: Admiring Hungarian revolution & despising Bolshevik fascism (19 Dec '57*, KGB) * ====================== Identifying the rebels with the Hungarian nation and working class, he characterised … Continue reading Landau [1] (19 Dec ’57*, KGB)
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. * Concealing Stalin-era execution dates (25 Dec '62*, 3265-S) * =================================== [page one of three; see page four] Top Secret USSR Committee for State Security [KGB] of the … Continue reading Conceal execution dates (25 Dec ’62* S)
KGB REPORT. Meeting in the Netherlands between a KGB source and Count Georg-Volkmar ZEDTWITZ von ARNIM (feature photo), Krupp corporation director, on behalf of West German SPD [R: 9 September 1969, 2273-A], 2 pp. * Krupp, KGB & FRG contacts (9 Sept '69*, 2273-A) * ====================================== [page one of two] SPECIAL FILE Top Secret USSR … Continue reading Krupp, KGB & FRG contacts (9 Sept ’69* A)
