Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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2I asked whether Macknight or anyone in State knew of CIA's connection with Sven. He said he did not know, though he dared say MacKnight might. He said he would be willing to call on Macknight to discuss State Dept. assistance in getting Swen stuff disseminated, representing himself merely as a private citizen.I said I hadn't and wouldn't make any mention of Swen to anyone at State.Horace Eng is as much as anyone Munson's main CIA contact, but, he said, Horace of course doesn't have time to concern himself actively with dissemination outside the FE area.I told him about recent State publications, in their "gray" program, such as *Glossary of Soviet Terms*, and pointed out that State and Swen are now putting out similar material.I said I hoped some sort of set-up might be arranged whereby State would help disseminate some of Swen's publications.Suggest that the initiative towards any such set-up has to come primarily from Munson himself, but that it will be potentially an important matter requiring careful working out by CPW, Col. Stubbs, Munson and State Dept.WSScc-SP/LaborSP/BrushkinSims/Swen fileSECRETThanks
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SECRET.file: "STALIN" PHOTO-BOOKSECRETSDS saw IMISON in his hotel 19 March 1951Hunson said they are now planning in terms of a book of up to 220 pages, between 1,000 and 1,500 photos" (some of which might be two or four photos to a page. "It will cost a lot of money."I mentioned again that we have $40,000 appropriated under KUFU Y for "similar photo-books at the discretion of CP's", but Hunson said there was no need to spend the taxpayer's moneys as many as possible of those books should be made to pay their own way.cc: Mr. BryanSECRET> ![scribbled text]
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SECRET30 March 1951LR. EASTUNI have just phoned Boris Shub, AC-2-0164. He will expert Jack liorgan to get in touch with him. 510 Hest 110th St., NY 25.Shub can be reached there any time any morning. In the evenings he is working in the apartment of a collaborator, end profera not to be phoned there,He expects to be in town both Tuesday and Wednesday.WSSShab and his collaborator work all Sundays and Mondays at the latter's apartment. Therefore if Morgan wants to phone hin Monday he had bottor catch hin at breakfast.SECRET
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SECRET30 March 1951SIMS phoned SHUB, 1200To ask him to see Jack Morgan (LA) (on an LA job). Shub said he will be in town both Tuesday and Wed., and that Morgan can always reach him in the mornings, anytime.In the evenings he is working at his collaborator's apartment, and prefers not to be phoned there.I told him I would phone him on the 16th, so that we can get together. He wants me to see the lay-out, which should be pretty complete at that time, "minus the final text". They were working on it till 4 a.m. last night; evenings are the only time his collaborator can work, except Mondays which he has off; they work on it all day Sundays and Mondays.They have locked over 6,000 photos.I told him Dawson wd be sending him a couple of dozen photos.SECRET19
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26 March 1951MEMORANDUM FOR: File, STALIN PHOTO-BOOKSending Subj 12 photos captioned as follows:1. Papers from body of Polish army chaplain.2. One of the mast graves.3. Before he was murdered liis hands were lashed behind his back...4. Thousands of the corpses show the four-edged wounds.5. 2. This is the certificate authroizing them to wear.6. Arch Deacon JASINSKI picks his way...7. A former major.8. 4. And this is SICRAMINSKI again.9. 3. This is his cigarette case.10. Map showing location of Katyn.11. 12 layers of Polish officers.12. This family photograph survived.This leaves just 8 photos remaining in our JBEXTRA files.
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26 March 1951Dear Boris,Thanks for y ours of the 22nd, reached me Saturday evening, arossing mine of the 23rd to you.It is all wonsterful now, and the more you think about it the moro aming it is that nothing oven remotely resembling it has ever been done anywhere in the world". And I know what a hell of a lot of work and worry it is, and what relief it will be then it is safely done.Imin als go to you this morning by registered mall. Those are my all at the mount. You will find then a great deal better than none. In fact, you may think they are enough to do the trick, Reflect that no on-fabery in photos having a long history since I can in itself const tute conclusive proof, nor any photo that could be.For that, your teat will carry more weight: the undisputed facts of geography and chronology, the depositiones the TACIT ADMISSION OF GUILT IN THE DARING PALLURE OF THE USSR TO RAISE THE HATTER AT LURENBERG (here sos Churchill's last volume, and perhaps quote a sentence or two from hing "Panes malos nova"; see also Mikolajonyk, from whom you may call a juicy quote or two.)It seems that about a dozen photos were given to all who attended the 21 Nov. 1949 press conference. So you may find Ep and/or the HL has one or two more. Dat there is not much more, Just one or two others of Layers of corpses.Your impact will come from the skilfull addition of citation of facts to the pix I'm sonding, don't you think?On your second request I'll do what I can. But you know one of the main reasons why it may not be much, ky friend who will know returns fron out of town tomorrow."Baltic Review" has no pix. "Estonian Magazine has only sconde. However I may be able to do something tomorrow.Here again I suggest you consider capitalising on the very absence of pictares, remembering that you have a great gift for the trenchant phrase. B.g., life in Riga pre-1939 was not too bad, nou, as you can quote from the press, there is deportation after deportation partisans, exploitation, almost universal hatred of the "people's democratic regio. Edmund Stovens inThis is R. Uncensored you'll recall said nothing so gave him the impression of the Living de thunder-Stalin an Riga, which he revisited. Therefore, Just show a RIGA PEOPLE IN MARKET SQUARI SCARS, PLUS QUOTE FROI STEVENS, and a bit of biting Shabian prose contrasting 1939 and 1949. Don't you tak there is a place for a fon "peaceful" pictures of this sort? Fix of partisans in action are few and far between, and often fussy, and there can anyway be, as you were saying, such a thing as too many atrocity pictures.Pari passu, why not use some ordinary, paaceful UKRADILAN scones, plus RECENT UCTES PRCU PRAVDA, repeat PRAVDA, OFFICIALLY ADIITTIDIG CRIVE PESIS-TANCE THERE. I can't give you said quotes, but you or some of your friends very likely can lay hands on them,After all, no "resistance" photo, what with fakery, will enrry conviction to those who won't be convinced. But a PHOTO OF THE FAGE OF PRAVDA, with the
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sentences underlined, must shaks even the faithful.On Lubianka I can't help. If the NY Tines won't help, and there is nothing in any agency files can this be?- I guess you've had 1t. Here again you might capitalize on the absence: can they be ashamed of this historic edifice, which plays so vital a role in the national life? E.g., Herblock today has a "cartoon" which has merely a black border around a white space, with the mast- head of La Prensa above. Needless to say, it is eye-catching in the extreme. Why not do the same with Lubianka?Alternatively, you might have a photo of 60 Andrassy Ut, and perhaps combine arm with the abora empty space treatment,I grant you that if this technique were carried to the extrare, you would be making history with a photo-loss photo-book; but rest assured the Herblock cartoon is a 100% attention-catcher,Couldn't agree more with your last paragraphs, However, there has been marked progresa.I expect, d.v., at long last to be absent from Friday the 30th till Monday the 16th, and mail probably won't be forsarded. Therefore please write Jif need arises.Best regards,Bill(WSSimo)SentSpecial Delivery
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510 West 110 StreetNew York 25, New YorkMarch 22, 1951Dear Bill:Picture book now in high gear as layout is beginning to take shape. New pictures of both historical and photographic pricelessness still coming in I.e.g. a shot showing a wildly cheering crowd of Russian peasants greeting first German troops---before latter went in for mass murder) This picture never used in this country. Could multiply by many examples but prefer to have you come down and see for yourself. If you could be here about three weeks from now, you could get a fairly good notion of what the finished product will look like (although there will still by a lot of polishing, caption writing and final checking to do). I am now certain that the book will be a major political event. wothing even remotely resembling it has ever been done--anywhere in the world.Need help on two xidad sectors promptly:1.  Katyn massacre pictures, Saw lots of them your neck of the woods. Please send them soonest, properly packed in cardboard to prevent folding or cracking. This is a must, since for some ond reason this is missing from the otherwise bottomless archives which we've unearthed..2.  Any decent shots of anti-Communist resistance behind theIron Curtain. We have a few of the past German things with the "F" painted on walls. But Joe mentioned others. Cant have too much of tais, since it constitutes an essential element in the closing part of the story.Will be difficult to incorportate such stuff unless we get it fast, becaase would mean dislocating the layout, which 13 now designed toflow like a motion picture recording of the whole big story. Hope this presents no obstacles. Joe thought is your end could send stuff to me. Rенсохгневолжкрус regenstx Registered mail sufficient precaution, it seems to meThe Acheson lester in today's NY Times re friendship with the Russian people a step in the wight direction though still a long way even from the speech delivered at Town Hall by McMahon day before yesterday. But somehow, someone must teach Acheson to cut out this sort of humbuging:"If the men of the Kremlin could but conquer their inward fears and resolve their contradictions, if they could but bring themselves to the comity which is the foundation of peace, great burdens would be lifted from the shoulders of people everywhere."That is the purpose of this rubbish? I know lots of professional diplomats think this is very "cute" and arch stuff, really meant to "embarrass" people like J.Stalin and G. Malenkov. Actually, the only thing it can arouse, bothnamong the Kremlin war criminals and among their victims is --utter contempt. If anybody in Moscow takes that drivel at face value, they conclude that the U.S. is still too frightpe ened of the boogey man in the Kremlin to call a spade a spade. That silly stuff must end! Please end it. The inward fears of Stalin-lal-enkov-Beria will only be resolved on the gallows. Best regards..MARCH 22,191 Bous
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Puckett (xxxxx) phoned. 24 March 1951"Estonian Mag.", in English, published in germany (available thru London) 29 Ashburn Pl., London SW7have only one copyhas only some pix - only scenery"Baltic Review" has no pictures.
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Tabard Inn1739 N St., NWWashington 6, DCMarch 23, 1951Dear Boris,Thanks for the clippings. All to the good.Fill do what I can to help, but, for reasons that will re-occur to you, you shouldn't bank on its being a great deal.Suggest you right well get excellent results by following the trail, via phone and tel, of the AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE KATYN MASSACRE, DC., which was, at the time of its founding circa Nov. 1949, Room 1209, 470 Fourth Avenue, NY 16, LO-6-4408.Chairman, Arthur Bliss Lane, Vice-chairman: Max Eastman, Dorothy Thompson, Treasurer: Montgomery W. Green, Executive Secretary: Julius Epstein.Why not contact Lane, or Epstein? Why shouldn't they be glad to help with their material, both textual and photographic.Others listed as Committee Members: Constantine Brown, G. Creel, H. de Donovan, A. W. Dulles, Farley, B. F. Gunther, Sol H. Levitas,.. B. Lyons, Charles Rozmarek, Sokolsky, V. S. Freedon, Jas. A. Walsh,*New Leader*, 30 Sept. 1950, had an article *New Light on Katyn Massacre*."The Defense Dept.'s release of a top secret report on the mystery-shrouded Katyn massacre has shed new light..... The release of the Van Vliet report, written by an American Lt.-Col. held captive in Germany who reluctantly fixed the guilt on Moscow after a Nazi-sponsored visit to Katyn is the first major break in the conspiracy of silence which has surrounded the affair ever since.""In 1943..the NL carried an exclusive article by Kerensky..directly charging the Kremlin...Last year the NL published a special A-page supplement on Katyn by Julius EPSTEIN. (See your local phone-book)...."It was only as a result of the Committee's persistent efforts that the long-suppressed Van Vliet report was finally released..."If you haven't you should glance at Mikolajczyk's account in *The Rape of Poland*. Because it contains a verbatim alleged account of how "it came about" by a shame-faced Russian officer in London, which you might find quotable. "So they asked 'Father' (Stalin) and 'Father' said..etc..."Churchill in his latest volume, in an oddly restrained account, makes it clear he knows Stalin was responsible, and refers to the books by M. and Anders.Photos. *The NY Times*, serializing Churchill, 9 Nov. 1950, had, if you are interested in irony or impudence or whatever, a rather blurred photo, released at the time by SOVFOTO, which Sovfoto described as showing members of the Polish Corps of the USSR holding memorial services at "the common grave of the Polish officers and men brutally shot by the Germans."Some of the corpses show marks made by the four-sided, peculiarly Russian bayonet, and others had hands tied with the MVD-type knot. Surely Epstein can help you here?Please let me know how you make out with Epstein and/or others, and don't hesitate to ask me again. I just think he's a better, quicker bet. I'll do what I can re the other pix and let you know. It sounds a masterpiece.Sincerely,Bill.
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# SECRETCP log. New York, 17 March 19521. I spent three hours with Boris Shub today, two of them in looking over his collection of photographs with his associate, Mr. Quint, of *Life*. Boris and Quint hope to have their book ready for publication by the end of May, when they will have reduced their collection to 500 photographs, which they estimate will fill about 200 pages. I have no doubt that the book will be a commercial success; my only wonder is why it has not been done before. Boris asks our help in obtaining certain photographs. (Bill Sims please note.) He wants all procurable photos of the Katyn Massacre, all resistance photos (Bill: Is there a magazine called the Estonian Review, which prints a good many of those?) and a certain photo of Lubianka prison, in Moscow. *The New York Times* had a photograph of Lubianka in its issue of Saturday, 12 November 1949, to illustrate installment 7 of General Smith's Memoirs, and IRB should be able to discover where the original came from. Boris has a letter from the Vanguard Press expressing hope that his biography of Stalin would be ready by 1 May; he will notify Vanguard that it cannot possibly be ready for another seven months. Finally, he told me that he was meeting Colonel Kintner on 20 March, for several conferences on BRAVE. He signed his secrecy agreement, which I will deliver to John Shields on my return.2. a. Corey Ford informed me that his story about General Smith (originally written for *Flair*) had been rejected by both *Look* and *This Week* and is now awaiting a decision from *Harper's*. (I reported-1-SECRET
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TRANSMITTAL SLIP12-3-51DATETO: MR BRYAN SUMSBUILDING ROOM NO.REMARKS:Re St. last9. What do you suggest?FROM:BUILDING ROOM NO. 455 EXTENSIONFORM NO 36-8SEP 1946
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SECRET12 March 1951CSPSP/OPIRe:ROBERT H. HEADLEYAs lunch today Munson said that HEADLEY has finished his part of the work on the photo-book on the career of Stalin; he has completed the text part; his collaborator is *1000%* better qualified to select the photos and do the lay-out.In security the collaborator's employers told Munson *"brutally"* firmly that while the collaborator's name can appear on the book (along with HEADLEY's) and it will be revealed that that magazine was the source of the pictures, and they may help *"syndicate"* it, if it is blown that they are selling the pictures available *free*, the deal is off.Munson thinks the book will be a world-beater, but that it may take till August to have it ready.I said that we have $40,000 still untouched in FIFUNE, which was appropriated for *"similar photo-books at the discretion of CSP"*, and suggested helping Swan out with some of that. He said he wasn't worried about money; that he thought OFC was if anything too ready to spend the taxpayer's money; that Swan's products should be able to pull their own weight. The book might have to sell for $3.50 or more in the US; in Hong Kong it would be $1 or $2.He will pay both HEADLEY and the collaborator royalties. HELIOTYPE will be returned to Swan.SECRETInitialled byLST
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SECRETRNACLAT wrote re recently that the book was now at a stage where most of the work had to be done by his collaborator. Since his name is to appear on it, I imagine he will still have to put in quite a bit of time on it, from time to time. Reason: He is also -or was when I last heard- doing *part-time* work on loan to WB in connection with BRAINWAVE.**Conclusion:** except for the above, he is not occupied, and Hanson suggests we should give his another job to do.cos: "Stalin" photo-book file.SECRET
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# SECRET## ROUTING AND RECORD SHEETINSTRUCTIONS: Officer designations should be used in the “TO” column. Under each comment a line should be drawn across sheet and each comment numbered to correspond with the number in the “TO” column. Each officer should initial (check mark insufficient) before further routing This Routing and Record Sheet should be returned to Registry.FROM: SP/SimsDATE 6 Larch 1951| TO         | ROOM NO | DATE | OFFICER'S INITIALS | COMMENTS                                   || ---------- | ------- | ---- | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------ || 1. CSP     |         |      | R                  | Excellent news from Shub re the            || 2. SP/DCPW |         |      | P                  | photo book on the career of Stalin.        || 3. SP/CPW  |         |      | Tron               |                                            || 4. SP/Sims |         |      | WSS                | 9 have witin her for a offrithed a it 17°? || 5.         |         |      |                    |                                            || 6.         |         |      |                    |                                            || 7.         |         |      |                    |                                            || 8.         |         |      |                    |                                            || 9.         |         |      |                    |                                            || 10.        |         |      |                    |                                            || 11.        |         |      |                    |                                            || 12.        |         |      |                    |                                            |FORM NO. 21-10FLIS 1930SECRET
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March 3, 1951.Dear Bill:Good to hear from you, even though your letter, as usual, too briefer for my apetite. From "our mutual friend Willia" you know more about my activities than I do about yours.[a top Life lay-out man]My collaborator is working like a fiend, with the asistence of a sub-fiend (female) who digs up pictures by the hundreds (literally). Last night I worked with him until 2 ocroc in the morning (with a brief intermission for a prize fight on his television set). In that long stretch we went trough over 400 pictures which he had just combed out of various labyrinths. Out of this batch we discarded about one-third, tossed away a couple of dozen poor substitutes for the real thing which the new haul corrected, and filled the present 40-odd chapter folders (provisional) with the cream of the crop.As you will gather from the above paragraph, the illustrated book on the man and his international network --and the forces all over the world arrayed on his side and against him--- ain't no ordinary picture album. It will be, I am quite certain, a major work. There is little point attempting to describe it in a letter, but I am quite comfident that it will be read xoxoce--and even ore important- lookei at, with absorbed interest this year, next and ten years from now. That is more important, it will make envincing, I am certain, what no words, written or spoken, can ever make completely co: vircing.As far as the "date when it will be wrapped up"---I can only say that I am acting the role of the slave-driver and the speedup man right now. It is, however, a ticklish role, wichou lave undesirable results if overdone.Both my main collaborator, who is certainly one of the best men in the country in the field--and the best man for this particular book, is giving it every free moment, as Is his fantastic research assistant. But a good picture book--as I told you хеховхроноx when we discussed the idea orijinally, is as much of a job as an pod book. I think we have broken the back of the job, and I côn content that the roduct will excel your fondest dreams. as far inpointen the date, I think I'll be in a better position to do that in about tree weeks, when the haul will be substantially in, and when we will have pared down our present mourtainous collection to the essence.I should Leagine that when our friend [Swen] returns from his present jum, collaborator and I will be able to Live him a falr or testions in connection with the actual printing job. The largest single question we see is this:Price of bo versus quality and lasting value.That I wear at we look as now shapes up
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- 2 -is a major work--a complete pictorial history not only of the man, but of the setting that produced him, the international ramifications that are so much a part of his life, his intrigues and his inclinations. But that is even more intriguing, we are reaching the stage where the pictures illustrating all this will be of first-rate pictorial quality. How we do all this and still save fast.we are agreed that it could be a serious mistake to sacrifice either quality or essential elements of the over-all story. The trick now is to do all that and yet turn out a book that, by one means or another, will sell at a price likely to make it a mass-circulation job.For further details, please board first available train or plane and join me over a drink at 510 West 110 Street. Perhaps I've already put too much of this on a typewriter. I wish you could have seen the pictures we worked on last nite. You would then realize that the original stuff you saw was so much fourth-rate stuff by comparison.(I guess the last two sentences are really intended as a lure. But I really would like to see you soon)Best regards to the gang. Will give you a more exact timetable as soon as it is feasible.Doris