Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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-17...27986 82169..as Nomsictures, 30F30930, NY Dareau; 8/1/46165..CIA-P-2958168..CIA-F-4010 Secret167..CIA-P-4003 Secret-79...CIA 25716 Conf.81...OSS 77111284...OSS.96907978...OSS 77109376...OSS 77123871...OSS Pictorial Records Division; 473.23B 915 USSR Moskva 22480 M89172 27...OSS Pict. Records Div. 473.23 M891 B 915 USSR; 2263974...OSS Pict. Records Div. 173.23 M891; b 915 USSR 2250568...CIA 2506. Graphics Donor #6, Restr.83,..CIA 30047 Secret14...CIA 25686 Conf.58...CIA 28941 Conf.85...CIA 30034 Secret65...CIA 28797 Conf.77...CIA 25717 Conf.69...CIA 26017 Conf.66...CIA 28789 Conf.86...no description96...CIA 28441 Conf. (also in Bedell Smith's book).89...CIA 32617 Conf.88...CIA 2166Restr. Graphics Donor #692...OSS 7712274...CIA 27996 Secret95...CIA 17361 Restr.120..OSS-P-11172 Signal Corps Photo.8.2 total
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SECRETSECRET5 Sept. 1950RE: AGREEMENT TO BE MADE BETWEEN OPC and SCBERT M. HEADLEY (pseud.)in re publication of a book.(1) Beadley is a covort CPC employse. He is cither a staff agent or a contract employee; Mr. Villard (ex-2798) can verify which.(2) Headley — who is now engaged in preparing the book— is to approach a publisher in his own nare, and as a privato citizen.(3) Thi book to be published under Bocaley's real name, with perhaps the addition of "...in collaboration with Blank / alloy's lay-out man, yet to be selected, if Headley feals tin layout dan deserves such crolltCopyright to be held by lieadley, both US and foreign.Royalties to be received by Headley.(4) Headley to have dismotion in selecting a Lay-out assistant, than he will offer to pay either(a) a fixed foo, helf down and half on publication; or(b) the fixed fee, plus a parbantage of royalties; or(c) a percentage of royalties.Probably Headley will offer (a).(5) The book to be published initially in the U.S. It is hoped that there will later be editions in many foreign languages, possibly subsidised,(6) Royalties over a given period will be either omaller or larger than Headley's salary.Hexiley is to turn over the gross royaltios to OPC — submitting the royalty statements or copies thoreof- less the difference between Headley'e income tax including royalties and the tax as it would have boan if he had not received royalties.Headley should sibnit also a copy of his Income Tax return(s).(7) Copyright to be assigned by lHeadley to CPC.(8) Arraigament re royalties to be terrinablo. Royalties might continue to dribble in for soveral years, after ileadley might have severed his connection with OPC,Therefore a claise is suggested to the effect: "at such time as the Government in its discretion may decide, the obligation on the port of Headlay to turn over royalties may be cancelled, and thereafter any royalties shall bo received by Headley for his own use."(9) Headley should submit/written itemized statecents of all expenses chargeable to the project; receipts from his collaborator for payment of find foop oto, the contract with the publisher(10) Headley to submit the final dumy for approval by an OPC representative.Saw mr. Joe Kelly, 224 Admin.about this sept. 6th. He will call Sept. 8SECRET
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To Boris Shnab510 W. 110 St5 Sept. 1950.Thanks for receipt.They expect to have the photos ready tomorrow.Other arrangements are proceeding apace and in the simplest manner.Thought you'd like to see this editorial.non-watermark
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5 Sept 505 Sept. 1950L-1030 Mr. Eccles, Ray, W3S.Ray artist fifed fee, or.ff +royalties, or.% royalties.Ray Dogs offer smallerlargerEE: there was a similar book, published in US (OPC)REM: BS= 2staffing as contract employeeEE. *highly impt. =with the assignment of rights (copyright) + royalties % OSBS turns over gross royalties.Loss increased tax.WSS "EE "at such time as the Govt may decidethe obligation to pay royalties may be between...dribs & drabs"EE Tax returns wd be identicalfew minutes work.BS giving certified copy return .../a) his actual tax returnb) statement of his royalties... END
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COPYSeptember 2, 1950Received from Robert W. Headley the sum of one hundred (100)dollars in as rrt payment for services in procuring photographs forthe Stalin picture book project.W. J. Greenoriginal given toJohn Bischoff5 Sept. 50.W. S. S.
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Re "STAIN" PHOTO31 Aug 5031 Aug. '50.BSof NIFE must be used as cover, make sure it is species out that their sole is conf-med merely to vonching for the cover spary, and that they have no say over the contents of thes book, that they don't even see it.
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SECRET30 Aug. '50Gave SHUB Amson's file of magazije articles on Stalin (which he doesn't want returned), and Crankshaw article of 25-6-50 in Sunday "NY Times" magasine "AGAIN THE BATTLE FOR LEXIN'S WANTLZ", marked "Please return to WSS when & if you can spare it".ASS
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MR. BRYAN: Given to Jin Wason.FROM "New York Times", Sunday, 25 June 1950:"PICTURE PRESS" is the newest shingle on Publishers' Row, hanging from 270 Park Avenue. Editors are Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr., former managing editor of "Life", and Oliver Jensen, on leave of absence from the magazine. The firm will concentrate on serious, inexpensive photo-text books with a general interest and mass appeal.183
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30 Aug '50BS wrel sind refpt to me, to give to Jon B., for $100 cash "see'd from RM Headley by "wifiquen"= composite name for his2 "N.L." frends, suggested by jpBr
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COPY30 August 1950Received from W. S. Sims $100 cash, for services in obtaining photographs to be used in a photo-book, under project SGHOUSE, later to be charged to FUNNY.Robert M. Headley![Signature of Robert M. Headley]RA
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29 Aug. '50Mr. Kessinger called. (x-2657).They will try to get the 82 photos done within a week.Will send the originals back to me, for me to make a storitized list.7+
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To Shub29 Ang. '50LITTAUER & WILKINSON200 Madison AvenueSee Kenneth LittauerSIMON & SCHUSTER published "The Baby" & "The Frenchman" & "Happy Holiday"DOUBLEDAY & CO. published the "Zoo" books+ Box 1901 addressOWI Book "I am not crazy enif to want a war""STALIN'S PUBLIC INTERVIEWS AND STATEMENTS TO THE PRESS" 1936-48.Sov Affairs Notes #35"Sov. Imperialism Poland 1939-48" Soviff Notes #38
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IL SusMR BRYADgiven to Mr. ThompsonBill. Excellent! Pick a name for the project.(KMKNOUT?) for file purposes. Let me know then. Thin-
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MR. BRYAN.25 August 1950MEZIDLANDUM FOR RECORDSUBJECT: Conference of JAUL. Sad and 3109 A35, 25. "STALDI" photo book.(1) Sario 202 photos were coxamined, the best, about 67, obtained by Shub in NY, the othore furnishni by CIA Graphics, plus soms nagusine artiales with photos, supplied by Jim illiamson,(2) Sims 10 to do utmost to got clearanco by CIA Graphics for moicس use of their photos by Slubi clearance, if possiblo, for Shib to take the photos to lil (protably not possible); and/or duplicatos mimio CIA markinga and/or lists of the sources from which CIA got them.Falling thase, I can make descriptive list of the CIA photos. It should not bo difficult to duplicato most of than in NY agencies, and the Shub ploturos are in any saco the lernol of the book/.(3) Length of book. Not mich discussed. More important to sat the tons and dooide the maẫn thèng, Thirty-five pictures would anost certainly bo too fow; 150 might be OK.(4) KUFUNNNY? Sims to clear with Fr. Thompson and Hillard shether the Stalin photo book sculd be done under KUFUNNY, which reads:3. b. That the purposes of this projoon / antwal photos, with satirical captions, in many languages / bo approved in princindo and a cam of $40,000 be appropriated for the devolopment and distribution of similar photobooks at the discretion of Chief, SP."Anyhow, letta got on with the book end, if necessary, amend AMFUNNY or write up a new project, lator/.(5) Dook to ba prepered by Shah, working in NY. Period of 6 months work by Shub, as co-author with David Sub of biography of Stalin, to begin after completion of work ci photobuck,(6) Stub' to approach rublisher as privato citizen, to hold copyright, take royalties, fur transmission to the account of KAFUNNY presumably. Presumably CIA's legal eagles are equipped to handle the income-tax as angles of this overt-covert set-up/Book to be published under signature "Doris Shub".(7) Collaborator for Shub in layout, JELI will give Shub & list of posuiblo helpors. JEILI mentionel Dick yang Soo Littauer, ask him for a good layout mang the best is the New Yorker's man, but he doesn't specia lise in photo media, you want a Life type man, they have better layout than Look."Pay him on a one-shot baris, a fixed fee. Toll him he gets a certain amount down, and the sam again if the book to published."1 Jim Williamson says he would be glad to holp on larat, if there is difficulty getting anyone else.SECRET3 carbons
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(8) Fublication to po in the US first, with a vion to subsidisation(if monetary) of oditione (possibly abridged) in Western Europe andaloowhero.(9) Publishor. JEIII: Duell would be loway. You'd get no advertising.Sinon & Schuster would be toxocllent if you can get then to do it. AskLittuor to shop it around."Sima mentioned Picture Fress, which ma doscribed in the WY TIPSof 25 Juno 19501"PICTURE PRESS is the novost shingle on Publishers Roa,hanging from 270 Park Avenue, Editors are Joseph J. Therndilo, Jr.,formar montaging editor of "Life", and Oliver Janson, on leave of absencofrom the magaziro. The firm will concontrate an sorious, inoxpansivophoto-taxt books with a general interest and nowe slant.JBIII to Shiba "Ask LST what he thinks about Jensen","n(10) Mat type of book? Shubi It should be called "Joseph Stalin, andto the casual reader it should lock, at first glanco, non-propagandistilo.Then, as you look more closely at it, you see the degeneration of the systas,in the faces, down to its present tertiary phaso", the ovolution freathe early revolutionary dream of a botter life for Russia to the prosentmonster rogins. The lens captions in it the batter.JULL: The main thao should be there are thoy now?", allthese individule and countries that have been outmansuvered and takenover and liquidated by Stalin.When you are writing for mass distribution, your tooniqueshould be: "I will tell you this, I an telling you it, I have told you 18".Sims: The thread running through it, starting with Lenin, could betCunning, plus Mouthleanean (one of Lenin's favorite words), plus compioteIntolerance of any opposition to a vory narrow and constantly-being-purgedKremlin clique. Horal (1) flobody can trust these people", and (2) "Becausethey tolorato no opposition, they mean War".A possible title, or sub-title might be "Half slave, half free?",the quotation from Lincoln, which would the in with the campaign to posothe USSR as the trus "resctionary and the US as the true "rovolutionarychampion of freedom./Simbi As far as possible, the photos, and the sequence in whichthey're arranged, should tell the story. CMI's war-time, 32-page photoboolton Hitler ("I am not crazy enough to want a war") ralies too much an captions.We should make a book that lolotov & Stalin would squira when they road it,and have no answer to. Then it will be good for publication anywhere."• (11) Shub to move to NYC September 1.(12) Shub to pay NYC associates $100for the photos they have already obtained,plus $200 on publication of the book.
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•✓ To Shab- 29 Aug '50Cover of books> [Figure: A photo of Stalin, annotated with "ao in Room 2412, Comery 154 Times Rok Pavair on Deutscher."]22-7-50Caption:JOSEPH STALIN1917-195?Comment: The "195?" (a) arouses curiosity;(b) suggests he, -afid to that extent the Stalin regime will come to an end in the 1950's;(c) carries the implication(?): Couldn't his regime be overthrown?Alternative covers: might be, tp put on the cover whichever photo proved most telling; the same photo to be printed also in its proper sequence in the book, at which point its meaning will become clear; e.g. the splendid photo of Stalin walking with, but apart from, Rykov, Kamenev & Bukharin, with its message: "this man bides his time, then treacherously strikes down all those 'comrades' who have ceased to be useful to him".
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the weird photo ofLENIN'S FIGURE SILHOUSTEADOVAR THA RUSSIAN LANDSCAPKCaption: "The existence of the Soviet Republic side by side with imperialist states for a long time is unthinkable. A series of frightful clashes between the Soviet Republic and the bourgeois states is inevitable."To which might be added: (1) Stalin's statement, circa 1945 that the bourgeois & Soviet states can co-exist, and (2) Stalin's statement of 9 April 1947 to Stassen: "Lenin is our teacher, and we Soviet people are Lenin's disciples".Comment: Somebody's Iringa. Photo suggests the peaceful Russian landscape, docinated by this founter (Lenin) of a dictatorial aliqme, whose dogation, intolerance and ballicosity are enggested by auch werde as "unthinkable", "inevitable", "frightful clashes".
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photo of LENIN:Just any ordinary photo;seated at his desk, orin any inactive pose.22-7-50Page 1.2Caption:"I had...fancied Lenin as a giant, statelyand imposing.""How great was my disappointment to see a mostordinary-looking man, below average in height, inno way, literally in no way, distinguishable fromordinary mortals."--Stalin.Comment: Crankshaw says: "This impression of a man so greatthat he could afford to appear ordinarywas one which Stalin found it necessaryto obliterate from the consciousness ofSoviet citizens."Therefore let's revive it.This will tie in, of course, with Lenin's Testament; "find away to remove this man.."
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EESS 22-7-50Page #2> [Figure: Photo of Plekhanov. The text below the image says: (we haven't got; can be obtained)]> ![photo of Plekhanov]Caption to the effect: *"Georgi Plekhanov, one of Lenin's oldest disciples and collaborators, of whom Lenin said in 1924:""No one is a true Bolshevik who does not know Plekhanov"* (or words to that effect which I've read somewhere), and who told his wife, when the Red Guards forced their way into his house, November 13, 1921:*"How little you know these people!They are capable of hiring an assassin to kill me and shedding crocodile tears after my death to arouse people's emotions."*Comments:We want to drive home the fact, unknown to most readers, that Lenin was bitterly opposed by some of his oldest collaborators; that there were (and are?) schisms even in the inner core; that what fastened itself on the back of the Russian people was a clique that was *"capable of all ruthlessness;"* of anything that would serve its main end: to remain in power.The quotation also brings out Soviet *"crocodile"* hypocrisy.
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# 22-7-50Page 13photo of KRONISTADT?(we haven't, can be got)Captions to the effect: this is the island fortress off Petrograd, from which the Bolshevik's own creme-de-la-creme marched against Kerensky in July 1917; stormed the Winter Palace in November to put Lenin in power.BolshevikHere, on March 1, 1921, 15,000/sailors and soldiers revolted against Lenin's regime, and dispatched a radio message to the world:"The first shot has thundered. But the entire world knows of it. The bloody Field Marshal Trotsky who stands up to the waist in the fraternal blood of the workers was the first to open fire against revolutionary Kronstadt, which rebelled against the government of the Communists in order to re-establish the real power of the Soviets. We will rise or fall under the ruins of Kronstadt, fighting for the bloodstained cause of the laboring people. Long live the power of the Soviets! Long live the world Socialist Revolution!"Marshal Tukhachevsky described the outcome:"I was in the war for five years, but I cannot remember such a slaughter. It was not a battle; it was an inferno... The sailors fought like wild beasts. I cannot understand where they found the might for such rage. An entire company fought for an hour to capture one house and when the house was captured it was found that it contained two or three soldiers at a machine-gun. They seemed half-dead, but they snatched their revolvers and gasped, 'Too little did we shoot at you scoundrels.'"Comment: "shows 17 has been done, - a revolt of 15,000, nearly four years after Lenin came to power.The average reader knows nothing of the fact this revolt occurred, and should be reminded.Tukhachevsky, incidentally, adds an item of "continuity" to the story, since further on there is a photo of him, as one of those executed.Note: the above would admittedly make a lengthy caption; but a vivid idea and necessary, because there is no photo (presumably) in existence of the actual revolt, and the fact it occurred should be driven home.
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Fri. 25 Aug. 50(non-labelled)TAKING FOR REPRINTING ON MONDAY:Soviet edilitarism............11Nazism........................10 2 very bigPersonalities.... 2Soviet Germany....... 3Stalin alone......... 5Lenin........ 1Stalin's inner circle.... 4Daily life........ 17Religion................ 2Stalin & Churchill........ 1Nazi-Soviet pact etc.... 4 1 dupl.Stalin's wife's grave... 1Children: war or peace?..... 7 1Big brother........ 2Other "yes"!s....... 1282
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28 August 1950Please retrun these 82 original photos, along with thosterile duplicates of them, so that we can make a sterile listof captions, and a list of the original CIA numbers.W. S. Sims/SPK-2410ext-569
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23 Aug. 1950BORISMrs. Folnd is going to get the 82 duplicatos made just as fast as sto cern. She couldn't give a timo limit on it this a.a.Incidentally, re the 68 photos for which you got the aganados' bill of about $150 this morning, she says agoncios like those oftca sell you photos for a dollar or two for your own private use, but that the usual fee for uso for publication is 36 or moro. So you'd better make sure sben on the point of publishing whether you've paid for the publishing right.(The photo we wero in doubt about is one of CIA's)WSSPaul Breitaseiser is charging the $150-odd temporarily against SGHOUSSThey were billed at $6.-SECRET
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SIMUPMr. ThompsonShab is going toNY. to start workon this Sept. 1stDo you want totake up any pointswith him before heleavesWBS
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M.R. THOMPSON25 August 1950MEMORANDUM FOR RECORDSUBJECT: Conference of JBIII, Shub and Sims, Aug. 25. re "STALIN" photo book.(1) Some 202 photos were examined; the best, about 67, obtained by Shub in NY, the others furnished by CIA Graphics; plus some magazine articles with photos, supplied by Jim Williamson.(2) Sims is to do utmost to get clearance by CIA Graphics for maximum use of their photos by Shub: clearance, if possible, for Shub to take the photos to NY (probably not possible); and/or duplicates minus CIA markings; and/or lists of the sources from which CIA got them. / Failing these, I can make descriptive list of the CIA photos. It should not be difficult to duplicate most of them in NY agencies, and the Slub picturec are in any case the kernel of the book //.(3) Length of book. Not much discussed. More important to set the tone and decide the main theme. Thirty-five pictures would most certainly be too few; 150 might be OK.(4) KMFUNNY? Sims to clear with Mr. Thompson and Millard whether the Stalin photo book could be done under KMFUNNY, which reads: "5 b. That the purposes of this project / animal photos, with satirical captions, in many languages / be approved in principle and a sum of $40,000 be appropriated for the development and distribution of similar photobooks at the discretion of Chief, SP."/ Anyhow, let's get on with the book and, if noces sary, amend KMFUNNY or write up a new project, later /.(5) Book to be pared by Shab, working in NY. Period of 6 months work by Shub, as co-author-with Sarit Shmb of biography of Stalin, to begin after completion of work on photobook.(6) Shub to approach publisher as private citizen; to hold copyright, take royalties, for transmission to the account of KMFUNNY presumably. Presumably CIA's legal eagles are equipped to handle the income-tax angles of this overt covert set-up /.Book to be published under signature "Boris Shab".(7) Collaborator for Shub in Lay-out, JBIII will give Shub a list of possible helpers. JBIII, mentioned Dick Lyons "See Littauer; ask him for a good layout man; the best is the New Yorker's man, but he doesn't specialize in photo media; you want a Life-type nan, they have better layout than Look:*   Pay him on a ono shot basis, a fixed foo. Toll him he geta à certain amount doich, and the same again if the book is published.*   Jim Williamson says he would be glad to help on Layout, if there to difficulty getting anyone else /.
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(6) Publication to be in the US first, with a view to subsidization (if necessary) of editions (possibly abridgod) in Western Europe and elsewhere.(9) Publisher. JBIII: "Duoll would be lousy. You'd get no advertising. Simon & Schuster would be excellent if you can get them to do it. Ask Littauer to shop it around."Sims mentioned Picture Press, which was described in the "NY Times" of 25 Jure 1950:"PICTURE PRESS is the newest shingle on Publishers' Row, hanging from 270 Park Avenue. Editors are Josuph J. Thorndike, Jr., former managing editor of "Life", and Oliver Jensen, on leave of absence from the magazine. The firm will concentrate on serious, inexpensive photo-text books with a general interest and news slent."JBILI to Shib: "Ask LST what he thinks about Jensen".(10) What type of book? Shub: It should be called "Joseph Stalin", and to the casual reader 11 should look, at first glance, non-propagandistic. Thon, as you look core closely at it, you see the degeneration of the system, in the faces, down to its present "tertiary phase", -the evolution from the early revolutionary dream of a better life for Russia to the present.. monster regire, The less captions in it the better.JBILL: The main thomo should be "Where are they now?", -all these individuals and countries that have been outmaneuvered and taken over and liquidated by Stalin.When you are writing for mass distribution, your technique should be: "I will tell you this, I am telling you it, I have told you it".Sims: The thread running through it, starting with Lenin, could be: Cunning, plus "Ruthlessness" (one of Lenin's favorite words), plus complete Intolerance of any opposition to a very narrow and constantly-being-purged Kremlin clique. Moral: (1) "Nobody can trust these people", and (2) "Because they tolerate no opposition, they mean War".A possible title, or sub-title might be "Half slave, half free?", the quotation from Lincoln, which would tie in with the campaign to expose the USSR as the true "reactionary" and the US as the true "revolutionary" champion of freedom.Shib: As far as possible, the photos, and the sequence in which they're arranged, should tell the story. OWI's war-time, 32-page photobook on Hitler ("I am not crazy enough to want a war") relies too much on captions. We should make a book that Molotov & Stalin would equirm when they read it, and have no answer to. Then it will be good for publication anywhere,"(11) Smib to move to NYC September 1.(12) Shub to pay NYC associates $100 for the photos they have already obtained, plus $100 on publication of the book.W.S.S.3 carbons
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25 Aug. '50Re "Stalin" PhotosShub's returned to him = highest# = #68102 photos winnowed out for return to CIA Monday.CIA has sent us202-68 shots = 134+ ## 203-227 25+ ## 228-235 rec'd  Aug. 1, '50 8  TOTAL 167Returning 102Should leave 65Actually taking 83 "yes"'s to Mrs. P. Monday