Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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19 May 1951DICKOur man "can Like without, but it would help greatly to tie the book together,"1917-(1) Photos of crowds being fired upon during rioting, Nov.-Jan. 1918, in connection with the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly.Page 282 of Lenin by David Smib says: "The Assembly was scheduled to open on the morning of January 16, 1918. In anticipation of the long-awaited event, Lenin ordered a detachment of Lettish sharpshooters to PETROGRAD (St. Petersburg, now Leningrad, might be listed under any one of these names in Graphics files?).(2) Fighting in Moscow, Nov. 1917. (There was no fighting in Petrograd, he says).(3) Photos of peasants being shipped north to Siberia during Collectivization. Some think it "conceivable" they may exist. That would be around 1932, 1931 I guess.He suggests trying:1. CIA Graphics, Bldg 14. (Mr. Kessinger, used to be ex-2657, H. Beattie too).2. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.You could ask Chuck Vettor whether he could arrange for you, without too much trouble to get into the place and borrow any photos they have, in the name of CIA, for a month or a couple of weeks (longer, if possible of course) for our man to make copies of.I think it really would improve the book if you could get #(1) for them.Many thanks.WSS
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# INCOMING TELEGRAM "Department of StanzTELEGRAPH BRANCHSECRETContra: 11327Rec'd: April 23, 19514:51 p.m.26IEFROM: FrankfortTO: Secretary of StatePGEROLICIADCRNO: 8583 April 23, 8 p.m.Recent discussions with Lunt, INP, pamphlet with comicSoviet combative possibilities proposed, with thoughtgiving publication attribution to local group to bedetermined. Urge INP's publications branch dummy upalong following lines for production here: pocket sizeformat, eight pages. Cover to carry photograph Stalinin friendly greeting with high-ranking, current partyboss in good standing from one satellite countries.Title to reflect theme "Stalin's friends". Each pageof inside book to carry photograph Stalin in friendlypose with such fallen, one-time heroes or friends ofSov Union as Trotsky, Hitler, Bucharin, Tito, Clementisor others dependent on existence pictures in archives.Captions for pictures can be taken from one of two sourcesor both. Either original photo caption or quotation fromthat era when "friend" was in favor, or a later quote froma denunciatory statement concerning the fallen man. Possi-bly both quotes could be used, the former above, the latterbelow the pictures. Suggest most careful research be madefor most succinct quote to carry off this idea. Requestreaction soonest.MCCLOYPAF: DESSECRETCopy for SP/PWfiles.REPRODUCTION OF THISMESSAGE IS PROHIBITED
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SECRET18 May 1951RE "STALIN" PHOTO ROCK(also KIEUNNY "Communist Zoo)SDS saw LEMSON from 11 to 12.40A thorough review of the whole set-up. Munson stressed two points:(1) "The book must be locked up by July 1." Otherwise it couldn't be printed in September. And in that case it might be necessary to wait till about next March.(2) "It must be the sort of book that Doubleday might be putting out." Firstly, because if it is too propagandistic the retailers just won't handle it (of details re C.Zoo). Secondly, Swen is still secure, stands up well under Dun & Bradstreet examination, and has been a great success in the FE. It has the NY reputation of a Far Eastern firm which does unusual things in the US. Swen as a going concern is more important than any one book: the book shouldn't be allowed to jeopardize Swen by being too obviously propaganda."I returned the layout to him. (He has not seen the text either, nor I think the other 60-old pages). He doesn't plan to tell Shub we've seen it. He recommended that we give Shub another week to continue on it. Then that, about Monday, May 28, Sims and/or Bryan go down to MY for 2 or 3 days and work with Shub on it.NB: He said that, later, it might be possible for Shub to introduce me to his collaborator as an informal consultant when he'd called in. In other words, in attempting to sell our views of it to Shub, we have also the problem of whether Shub could sell them in turn to his collaborator. *and Security.*We both gave our views of the book at length.Lyle's views included: that with the text it may be better than it looks; that theress 66 pages to come; that it is better to get out something than nothing; that we can always do a 2nd or revised version; that we must face facts and not put out a book which a high percentage of retailers simply won't handle; He also, at the start, said something along the lines of what I regard as Shubian erroneous doctrine: that we should show the responsibility that the USA and Germany (Hitler?) had for the state of affairs in the USSR; I said all such things might be sub-themes, if they could be tucked in without detracting from the main themes, but that I thought they were very dubious: 172 pages don't enuf to show what a bad man and regime it is.My views, agreeing with much he had said, included: that we ought to put out something that the man in the barber-shop, anywhere in the world, would leaf through and couldn't turn over more than 3 or 4 consecutive pages without beginning to think: "This really must be *a bad man,* *killing* that many of his own cabinet."That we should not attempt either an exhaustive or even consecutive chronological treatment of the 71 years since 1879 or even since 1905 or 1917. Just hammer home main points, such as that they had a Constituent Assembly, until lenin killed it by force and fraud, etc.SECRET
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That the main themes should be such as: SECRETHe kilis & kills & kilisHe lies & lies & liesThey defect & defect & defectThe worshippers return disillusioned, in drovesThe top CP men get liquidated as soon as Stalin takes over, in:BulgariaHungaryCzechoslovakia (Clementis trial coming up), eta eteThat what we should include is the things that differentiate them from us,after everything that can be said against us has been said: The things theyDO DO, that we don't do..That we are putting ourselves behind the Suball, to invite interminablearguments in re diplomatic history. Historians are still arguing about whetherEngland, Austria or Russia was most responsible for WWI. It is folly to mastespace attacking Stalin because he fought the Finns in order to get better defensesfor Leningrad, as we might fight anyone who threatened the Panama Canal. Or evento try too hard to pin WW II on him. (It is still at least arguable that it wdhave taken place, in some fora, even if Russia had still been Tsarist. After all,there has been mich carnage long before Stalin was even born.)We should, to be sure, touch the iar and Peace there, which means so muchthe world over. But the way to do it is to establish beyond doubt that theman is and always has been bad, ditto the regime, they both tolerate noopposition: therefore they are, in "self-defense" entransionist. But let us dothis with broad, repetitive strokes, not got bogged down in the details ofMunich, the Finnish War, Pearl Harbor.We agroad that the best we can do, in all the circs, is to try oncamore to sell this view to Shub, and content cursolves with whatever result wocan get.In view of past failures to sell Boris on the subject (at least on manypoints), I'm not too optimistic. I think wo should:(1) Devil's advicato him on the pictures we think should be scrapped;(2) Get a promise from him that he will give some space to certain topicssuch as the SLAVE LADOR MAP and a display of, say, a dozen of the "Il Yearsin Soviet Camps" type of authors; a display of the "Goo That Failed" menI stressed that JBIII and self would be only too deligated if boris cạnconvince us it is better than we fear.RE $90,000, I asked what about this figure, which I had heard mentionedyesterday. Lyle said that Swen's investoent in it would be amounting to aboutthat. I asked if FE or SP would have to produce that sum. He said NO, Swen'sbudget is sufficient to cover it, as is.RE ROYALTIES FOR SHUB. He said the collaborator would be getting 75,which he thought might bring him in $60,000. Hệ thought it might be justifiable-"discuss it with Legal and Joe" that Soris's contract should be amended sothat he would get a portion of the royalties that nominally come to him, insofarSECRET
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as they exceod his anmial salary. I asked what portion?" and Lyle said"oh, perhaps or 1/3," which, if the excess wero $12,000 - figaro ilesuggested as possible- would bring him in an extra $4 or $6,000.Shub's contract with CIA expires 31 Dec. 1951. His contract with 3wen,Lyle pointed out, would stili bs in effect after that. 1 But his contract withXxn CIA would still no doubt obligato him to return royalties to CIA, 1.0.Swon, even after 31 Dec. 1951.I said this mightn't be a bad idea, as Shib may tend to go somewhatsour, seeing his collaborator getting his much larger sslary and 7½ royaltieson top of that. On second thoughts, however, it is doubtless a very poorprecedent and we could perhaps obtain and quote to Shub CĨA Legal's opinionto that effect that OPC employees should take royalties fron commercialenterprises with which they happen to be connected.I believe he is paid quite a generous figure, which ought to keepa married man with no dependents ahead of the Collector of Internal Revenue.If not, or if it is thought he is really worth more, the possibility ofsuggesting to him a salary raise, when his contract as Agent comes up förrenewal, could be considered. At any rate, in the interests of keeping hismorale up during the final phases of work on the book, I suggest the wholematter should be handled not too brusquely.RE "COMMUNIST 200", and refusal of many US retailers to handle it, seeattached Memo of Record of what Munson told mMunsoni We have to face plain facts. My experience with "C2" showsthat we have to mix in glasses of orange juice with the castor oil. "C2"isabout as vicious as the traffic will bear. If the "Stalin" photo book smackstoo strongly of propaganda, a lot of retailers just won't even handle it."CONCLUSION. We should stay in NY long onuf to(a) Hear everything Shub can say in defense of his version;(b) Do a strong debil's advocate job against the pages we thinkhe should delete(c) Insist that, in the remaining 66 pages, certain topics must beadequately dealt with: Slave Labor, Defections, Cultural Purges,Purges of top Communists in Iron Curtain countries。(d) Hope for the best and be prepared to accept what may be a not toosatisfactory bargain, especially in view of what Iyle says aboutretailers, and about mintaining Swen's reputation.SECRET
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CONFIDENTIALSECRET17 May 1951PHONED SHUBLou Scherer (WE) phoned to say that he had to see Levitas, editor of *New Leader*, in connection with a new project, and with several other matters. Would like to see him for about an hour. CSP had suggested I ask Boris Shub to arrange the appointment.I phoned Boris Shub, and phoned Scherer back that Shub would meet him at 10.50 a.m. tomorrow in the bookstore below (?) the NL office at 7 E. 15 St. Shub will introduce Scherer to Levitas at 11.Re PHOTO BOOKBoris said there are 3 matters which "we can live without, but it would distinctly strengthen the book if you could perhaps get them at the Library of Congress."(1) It is conceivable that there exist photos of crowds being fired upon in Nov.-Jan. 1918-1918, in connection with rioting on the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly. (See Shub's *Lenin*).(2) Fighting in Moscow, Nov. 1917 (There was no fighting in Petersburg).(3) Collectivization. Some think it is conceivable there exist photos of peasants being shipped north to Siberia during Collectivization. Cf. CIA Graphics?Cf. Library of Congress.Re RUSSIANS AS ALLIESBoris has just heard from a Russian friend, and has sent to London for confirmation --seen nothing in the papers about it here-- that there has been formed in London a BRITISH SOCIETY FOR A FREE RUSSIA, with Major Hilton (author and ex-military attache in Moscow) as president and the Duchess of Atholl as vice-president. Encouraging, he thought.He also mentioned the FREEDOM UNION FOR GERMAN-RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP reported in the May 11 NY Herald-Trib, with Mayor Reuter and some Russians among the members.Re PHOTO BOOKLAY-OUT of the book received from Munson in SP/FW today.SECRET
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re STALIN PHOTO-DOOKFrom CFW's Log for 17 May 1951This morning I spent an hour and a half with Lyle Manson and Mrs. Vinsen Sherry? (PE), going over Boris Chub's narrative-in-pictures of the career of Stalin. Lyle showed us 114 finished layouts / i.e. 57 two-page spreads of an eventual 172 or 174 and told us that the remainder would be finished in about 3 weeks. He also said that 60 pages of the text were now finished, and the rest would be done in about 6 weeks. He has asked us to provide him with the following material:*   a. A memorandum from Bob Winston about the Finnish Air Force's 60 to 1 preponderance in its war with Russia.*   b. A memorandum from Harold Gosnell tracing US aid to Russia.*   c. A set of photos of the Katyn Massacre and a copy of John Broderick's summary. I sent Shub Katyn photos several weeks ago.
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File STALIN FHOTO BOOKFrom CAI'S LOG, 2 May 1951Bill Kintner has suggested that fr. Burris-Meyer consult with Boris Shub in New York tomorrow on themes for black FW against the USSR. Pinky and I see no objection to this meeting, and I have notified Shub to expect a call from Burris-Meyer.Shub told me that his Stalin picture-book now promises to run to 172 pages, or about 80 double-exposures spreads, comprising some 500 photographs. He expects the layouts to be completed by 20 May, and the text by mid-June. Its price will be $2 or thereabouts.
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Mailed to SH'B, May 3, 1951.LITHUANIAN DAYS, Vol. 2, No. 2, March 1951, published at 9204 S. Broadway, Los Angeles 3, California. With note:"FYI, page 5 / rather blurred photos of Lithuanian resistance fighters and bodies of Soviet victims / and elsewhere as marked."*Robe there is no indication that any of the material is asf aspqrighted.*Page 19: "Lithuanian Genocide Show in laterbury."Two American newspapers, the WATERBURY SUNDAY REPUBLICAN and the AMERICAN carried two long articles on Feb. 11 and 12 marking the opening of a genocide exhibit organized by aterbury, Conn., Lithuanians. The exhibit, the first of its kind in the U. S., has on display Soviet deportation orders, document's on confiscation of farms, actual photographs of atrocities committed by the Soviet Union in Lithuania, and other evidence. We reprint hero a portion of the article which appeared in the WATERBURY AMERICAN."Page 20: Poem, LITHUANIA CRUCICIFIED, by Nadas Rastenis; 6 verses in Englich.?
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PROMOTE PROJECT (for Monthly Report, 27 April's:).Publication of a book of photos with text exposing evils of Stalin and his regime throughout his career.a. Great progress has been made in assembling the book, by SUBJECT H. HEADLEY and a collaborator. They are planning on a book of 175-195 pages, with some 600 photos.b. The publisher is pressing for a September 10 press date, and has lined up a Chicago press.W. S. SimsSECRET
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Mailed to Shult21 April 1951Concluding paragraph of Halvin J. Isky's article "Did Hitler Help Stalمل in the Fraseup in L LEADER, 25 Dec, 1948:[those pare suful and terrible years. Years of intrigue and besit, of betrayal and calculstod oril-doing.] Hitler and Stalin mat gr tore and products of this oroch. From these new glimpoes into the secrete of their political affairs we see once again Adolf Hitler, single-purposed and rasarafil, and Josef Stelin, ruthless, parhaps for a mommt gillible, bat in the end wasverrible. [And what a dark ritchast brow enorged from all of this] the Goren zilitaristo trained and equipped a Soviet Army shiab pas Later to destroy then and annar a third of Germany the Soviet rearend the German military power which was later to lay vasto to all of Bropean Sussia.[^1]Rather vividly puts some such phrases alot be useful in your text?Whole article, with which you're doubtless familiar, of interest in ro the biograpty.Best regardaBiel[^1]: ![scribbled annotation]
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TRANSMITTAL Sl-17 April 51DATETO: MR. BIJAN SIMSBUILDING ROOM-NO:REMARKS: FILE: "STALIN" PHOTO-BOOKExcellent informationEncouraging EtcThanksFROM: WSSBUILDING ROOM NO. EXTENSIONFORM NO 36-8SEP 1946
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SECRETfile "STALIN" PHOTO BOOKMUNSON saw Sims, Smith, Loobs at his hotel 16 April 1951Munson went through the complete book last Wednesday and Thursday evenings, April 11 and 12. He is sure it will be one of the really important books of 1951.He has asked for 3 photostat proofs of the layout, which we can look at down here. He agrees with me that no useful purpose would be served by my going to NY to see it, as I Shub had sugested, He thinks it inadvisable that "a stream of people" should go to Shub's collaborator's apartment.They are now aiming at a book of 175 to 195 pages, the pages to be of Vogue size; which, on an average of 7 to 8 photos per double-page, will come to some 600 or more photos.It is more than the personal career of Stalin; it could better be called something like "The Rise and Rule of Stalinian."He is pressing for a SEPTEMBER 10th PRESS DATE. That may be too optimistic, but he has located a Chicago press which prints either Vogue (Conde Nast) or a Vogue-size magazine, and which, if they stick to that format, can handle it with dispatch. Munson will be going to Chicago to investigate.PRICE. "I could be 100% wrong on this estimate," but: it should cost a minimum of $1.25 to print, and, if we want to make 25¢ net, $2.95 or $3.00 would be the minimum at which Brentano could retail it. / I'll bet it will come to more than this.Shub's collaborator, "absolutely wonderful; the book is now 75% his", will get 7½% royalties, Shub's nominal royalties will revert to Swen.Munson feels strongly that it is very bad policy to sell a book at less than obvious cost. He says he is completely certain that this is true in the Orient, and gave is a chapter-and-verse example (which escapes me) to illustrate it.By *obvious cost* he means that it may be OK to count on the public's not guessing how much it may have cost you to pay a Barnes and to do, e.g., seven prints of some of the C.Z. photos; but it is bad to price a book at less than what the physical comments ist obviusly have cost.He is dead sure this applies to the Orient, and strongly suspects that it would hold good for Western Europe also.W.S.S.SECRET"Excellent. Information.Encouraging. Thanks."
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SECRET17 April 1951FOR QUARTERLY REPORTPlease change part on 'STALIN' PHOTO-BOOK PROJECT as follows:a. Swan Publishing Company will publish and is meeting expenses.c. Book will consist of some 175 to 195 Vono-size pages, about 600 photos with text, and several who have seen it are certain it will be one of the important books of 1951, a devastating expose, suitable for world-wide circulation.Change d. to read:d. The publisher is pressing for a September 10 press date, and has lined up a Chicago press.e. All rights in the book, and the royalties normally paid to HEADLEY, will revert to CIA (Simon).
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SECRET16 april 1951DRAFT FOR QUARTERLY REPORT"STALIN" PHOTO-BOOK PROJECT: publication of a book of photos with text exposing the treacheries, bentality, etc., of Stalin and his regime throughout his career.a. Swan Publishing Company will publish and is meeting expenses; therefore project has not been formally written up; this will be done shortly.b. Great progress has been made in assembling the book, by ROBERT E. KENDLEY and a high-level layout collaborator who draws on the photo files of a national picture magazine.c. Book will consist of some 500 or more photos with text, and several /MILL and Munson/ who have seen it are sure it will be a devastating expose, suitable for world-wide circulation.d. The authors have estimated publication in August, 1951 as a possibility; but this may well prove over-optimistic.e. All royalties and rights in the book will be turned over to CIA (Swan Publishing Company).WSSSECRET> See version of this, above
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SECRETMEMO OF RECORDSECRETSIMS saw MAISON in his hotel 19 March 1951In addition to the details which be gave about Communist Zoo and the "Stalin" photo-book, Munson said:Re Swen, "Tell Jõe I need a man who knows the book publishing business, as a "ecnsultant or part time helper. To be paid something like $300 to $400 a month, for which he would gige, say, a week of his time each month."I asked if he would like to have any CIA man detailed to do liaison with and be part-time helper of Spen; Hinson said he didn't think a staff man would be very secure. He'd need to travel, deal with other publishers, ete.Swen offices are established in Taipei, Tokyo, Manila, Hong Kong, Bangkok,Swen will reproduce material in any language, in any format. If anybody wants him to do a job, let them contact him.I asked how about getting material translated; he said you can always got it done in New York.The finished product would be cargoed out to the field.Re ROCKPORT, the artist. Munson has been paying tim ($350 a meath I think), and now feels he has gotten about as much material out of him as he will need.Why not suggest to SCHILLER that The Challenge employ him on a regular basis?"I said that the editors of The Challenge (all Russian-speaking) mist already know him, since they have used his drawings. That when he finds himself unemployed he can, and quite likely will, approach than anyway. Thy not let them decide whether they want to employ him, rather than for us to complicate matters, through SCHILLER, by forcing this extremely "difficult" men on then? Munson agreed we should let it ride.If the editors themselves want to employ him, we can then decide whether and how much of the DIEXCISE funds should be used to pay him. As he is very difficult and dilatory it might be better to stipulats that he be paid on a piece-work basis.He "Great Swindle" and Swen's distribution problem in general.Munson said that, while the photo-books should pay their own way, it was never contemplated that The Great Swindle would be a commercial success. Distribution of such material is Swen's great problem.SCHILLER wrote Munson that he (FTUC) couldn't use The Great Swindle. Munson thinks professional jealousy entered into this. SCHILLER made some criticism to the effect that the booklet bears no Trade Union logotype, whereas he should know perfectly well that lithographed material never does.SCHILLER should simply be told: Put out so many copies of the Great Swindle."Alternatively, the geoegraphic Divisons should give indigenous Anti-Comunist groups $25,000 or $2,500 and say: "This is yours if you nail out wapteen thousand copies of the booklet with it.Re State Dept. and Great Swindle. Munson suggested my giving a copy of the Great Swindle to Mrs. Crossmell or Col. Stubbs and asking them to recommend it to Mecknight as something they had come across, dth the suggestion that the State Department buy copies of it for all their Reading Rooms.SECRET