"The First Circle", samizdat publication 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. =============================== [page one of three] Secret USSR Committee for State Security [KGB] at the USSR … Continue reading Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle (31 July ’67*, 1931-A)
KGB REPORT. Physicist Lev LANDAU’s admiration for the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and his comments about Bolshevik fascism [R: 19 December 1957]. 17 pp (Excerpt). Landau [1]: Hungary & Bolshevik fascism (19 Dec '57*, KGB) * ====================== Identifying the rebels with the Hungarian nation and working class, he characterised the events in Hungary as ‘the Hungarian … Continue reading Landau [1] (19 Dec ’57*, KGB)
* 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)
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)
