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I have written you care of Littauer, whom we have asked to keep a file for you, of letters of this sort -- and you could deposit carbons of your replies if necessary with him -- which you could consult when and if necessary.Sterilized letters, about details of work-in-progress, we can exchange direct.The friend who was mentioned at lunch said he may be free to come and see you in a week or two. But please be extremely careful about mentioning him to anyone. He'll explain why that's important.Best regards,Billtwo carbonsHas Littauer a safe?SECRET
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TRANSMITTAL SLTO: ESP Suio6 Nov '50BUILDING ROOM NO.REMARKS:F.Y.I.JBK and I are writing to him.FROM: W.S.S.BUILDING ROOM NO EXTENSIONFORM NO 36-0SEP 1948
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6 Κον. 1950MR. TRUPSONRe: Boris Shub(1) Bill Rowland says that, as far as he knows, Shib is not under the direction of anyone except CSP.(2) Shib is a covert "contract agent". His contract runs until 1st Dec. 1951.W.S.S.WSScc: Mr. Thompsonfor file "Stalin photo book"SECRET
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3 Nov. '50"LURSS EN COISTUCTIO", #12MSS wrote on cover sheet of date 30 Oct. '50, from I/IS:CF/TH/Sims would like to see material such as this, and if possible would like to have a copy of "L'URSS en Construction".#12, 1949.The latter is the handsomely got out, printed in Moscow,#12, 1949 issue, dealing with the 70th bday of Stalin. A lot of idealized paintings of Stalin with Lenin et all; the house where he was born, his activs in 1905, in Georgia; in 1917, etc.(We cd live without it, however).The mags were shipped to the Sov Legation in Havana. It may be possible to get similar publications in the future. Request interest be indicated. SP/IS also expressed interest.Attachments must be returned to CSO by 17 Nov.The other attachment is big mag "SOVIET UNION", #5, July '50.
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CONFIDENTIAL30 Oct. '50SECRETIR. THOMPSON(1) I just phoned Shub and asked him to got in touch with you at the Biltmore around 9 a.m. Thursday, in re having lunch with you.(2) His phone is Academy 2-0164, 510 West 110th St.(3) re "STALIN" PHOTO-BOOK. I wrote him Oct. 18: "Please don't approach any publishers until you hear more. Another very helpful possibility has come up."He was understandably puzzled, and I couldn't explain it over the phone. Could y ou please explain to him it means: Don't approach Simon & Schuster or other publishers because SHEN PUBLICATIONS, INC. is much interested in doing the book.HSS.SECRET
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Air-mail to SHUB18 Oct. 1950Please don't approach any publishers until you hear moro.Another very hopeful possibility has come up. #Adelo is here and saye to send you her love.As D-day approaches we treut you are taking aspirin every hour on the hour. Best regards and sympathy to Libty.*Bill*# Possibility that Swen publications will publish the "Stalin" PHOTO-Book, initially in the U.S. and/or in the foreign editions.SECRET
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# LIFE'S PICTURE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II16 oct '50THE fused talents of LIFE's entire photographic and editorial staff have gone into this superb new kind of history book. It contains nearly 1000 photographs, paintings, maps, many in color, and 75,000 words of brilliant narrative by John Dos Passos, Robert Sherrod, and others. Foreword by Henry R. Luce.The first printing of this monumental book is one half million copies; the size 10" x 14"; the weight, approximately 6 lbs. Each copy comes in its individuel carton Price $10 a copy; deluxe edition $12. At alf bookstores SIMON AND SCHUSTER
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LIPPER History of WorldTime, Inc.:: Simmon andde luxe editionWARSchuster,$12. A thousand pictures and80,000 words of text.Mid-Century, Edition, 19001500-Year, Inord of fifty years. 2000 pictures and 100,000 words,03/16/50![image]
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# for QUARTERLY REPORT## SECRET6 Oct. '50EMPHASIS: This project is to produce a book of animal photos with satirical anti-Communist captions for publication in France. It is being developed with the assistance of Clarence A. Barnes, author of the best-selling "Home Sweet Zoo" and other photo-books. Twenty-one captioned photos have been submitted to a French publisher, who has indicated willingness to re-consider publish. These photos have been recalled, so that a final selection may be made from among them and 59 further photos must supplied by Mr. Barnes. If the French edition is successful, editions in other areas are contemplated. $6,000 has been allotted to publishing this book, with approximately $600 obligated to date; and an additional $40,000 has been set aside for publishing similar books. *XX*/ Earliest publishing date 6 weeks; latest estimated at Jan. 1, 1951/*. If there are editions in other countries, this project will be active for more than one year, and it may be necessary to subsidize the publishers in order to obtain the desired distribution.![KM KHOTT]
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for QUARTERLY REPORTOK PRODUCTSECREL 6 Oct. '50This project, which will be a sub-project of KIFREY, has not been formally drafted, but is being developed. The project is to prepare and publish in the U.S. a book of photos and text on the career of Stalin, with the expectation of very widespread foreign distribution to follow. Mr. Robert M. Headley, CIA contract agent, is at work on the book; more than 200 photos have been assembled; a legal agreement concerning copyright and royalties between CIA and Headley was signed Sept. 16. Cost of 150 photos at $6 would be $900; any profit in the form of royalties will be returned to CIA.*Shields**Note:* there has already been some expense for (a) travel by Snowden to NY to take contract to Headley for signing, and (b) about $150 paid to Headley's agents to pay the agencies for photos obtained, and (c) $100 to them for their services in obtaining.SECRET
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for CUART PLY REPORT (7)SECRET Oot. 1950;) the bit listed as #5 (No nemo).As far as I know this is not, and probably never till bay technically a Project.As far as I know Headlay is just under instrications fron LST,-as soon as he has finished work on the Stalin photo-book to completo his biography of Stalin.SECRET
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For Darson, forQUARTERLY FROGRESS REPORTsecret5 Oct. '50"STALIN" PHOTO-BOOK PROJECT (to be named KICKNOUT)Is a project for preparation of a book of photographs-plus-text on the career of Stalin.When formally written up, it will be titled KICKNOUT, and will be a sub-project of KAFURNI, requiring only the approval of IST.Some photographs have been assembled, from CIA Graphics and from agencies in N.Y., and a legal agreement has been drafted and signed, between/ CIA and Robert H. HEADLEY (pseudonym for B.S.), who will prepare the book for publication in the U.S. under his own name, retaining the copyright, which (together with royalties) he will assign to CIA.Mr. Headley is now working on the book. It is planned that, after publication in the U.S., there will be editions (some perhaps subsidized) in many foreign areas.ZODURRYI assume you have the details on this.EXRADIOI am listed as responsible for this, but know nothing about it. (I am going to look at the file today). Ray Lillard and LST know about it."STALIN" BIOGRAPHYThis, I believe, is not technically a project. But I understand that Robt. H. HEADLEY, contract agent, has instructions from IST, after finishing the "Stalin" photo-book, to complete a biography of Stalin, for publication in the U.S. under his own name; with the expectation of foreign editions to follow.TSS
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6 Oct. 1950Re PHOTO of a panel of distinguished literary figures, artists, musicians, etc., who have been banned in USSR, are exiles, and/or became disillusioned with the "Soviet experiment".Dateline Berlin, Aug. 16, '50. The West Berlin "Volksblatt" reports that the SED has forbidden the works of the following to appear in official entertainment programs or in public libraries in the East Zone:Andre GIDE: "an enemy of the Soviet Union"Ignace PADEREWSKI: "a Polish reactionary chauvinist and enemy of the Soviet Union"Igor STRAVINSKY: "implacable enemy of the Soviet Union"Arturo TOSCANINI: "rootless, with Western tendencies" [^1]R. M. RILKE: whose work is "sterile and unpopular"Stefan GEORGE: "a decadent dreamer and champion of the Germanistic infallibility myth"Jean-Paul SARTRE### MusiciansTo what extent any or all of them left the USSR for primarily political reasons I don't know (do you), but taken in all, with the caption pointing out "It can't be a coincidence that all these men preferred to get away from and stay away from the USSR", they'd make an impressive gallery:STRAVINSKI RACHMANINOV KOSTELANETZHOROWITZ KOUSSEVITZKY KURTZELMAN BARER MEDTNER (?)HEIFETZ BRAILOWSKY HILSTEINGOLSCHMANN? (b.Paris) GARBOUSOVA MOISEIWITSCHPIATIGORSKY SEVITZKY STERN ZIMBALISTETC. ETC.[^1]: (11)
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# Photos of MVD officer, or# Photo: PIROGOV (as on the cover of his book; Duell, Sloan) 6 Oct. 1950# Caption: a quote from him, such as (from the jacket of the book):"The Soviet major and the American colonel personified two worlds, two worlds between which I was to choose."One was my country where everything was infinitely dear to me: her breadth, her limitless abundance, her simple, kindly folk who can sing in times of sorrow as in times of joy.. Scores of friendly faces flashed across my mind, scores of people I should never see again."But then all of that was blanketed in mist and all I saw was the sleek mask of the Soviet major sitting across from me. The cold, rigid features expressed all I detested: cruelty, contempt for the sufferings of others, the fear and sham of everyday life, the cheerless toil, and the perennial threat of tyranny.""The alternative was an alien land America where I should be a stranger,.. but where I should at least be free.."But I did know that I could no longer live in the land of my birth, live as a slave among slaves, conscious of my impotence to help them or myself.."Comment: this quote could of course be pruned, retaining little more than the underlined bits.Here is text which, joined to a photo of a particularly repellant MVD type, will do something to put across how the MVD is detested./ Sure, he's an anti-Stalinist, but that's Stalin's fault, not ours. You could add, if it seems necessary, as he and Ada Siegel point out, that there are thousands like him, and the only reason we don't hear from them is that it's a rare & lucky & plucky man who has a plane handy for escape. /
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6 Oct. 1950## ?? Photo of TROTSKY and/or LENINCaption: quote from Trotsky's letter to Chkheidze, 1913, describing Lenin as "this professional exploiter of all the backwardness in the Russian working class movement." (MS manuscript, p. 120).Comment: several photos and quotes of this sort to expose the myth of one-big-happy-family life among the Communists, whole-souled in their adoration of Big Brother. A Trotsky quote such as the above could be used in conjunction with the Stalin quote on the "ordinariness" of Lenin, and the Lenin quote on the "roughness" of Stalin. And throw in two or three more and you have a striking (and amusing) littleSection on the Politburo as just a Band of Brothers, happy home life among the Communists; the CC (circa 1924, anyway) a snake-pit; band of backbiters and backstabbers2 x 3 equals 6 photos would give an exhibit of each of the three Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky backbiting each of the others.Then these could be followed with the photo of Trotsky shot dead after stabbing by Stalin's assassin, which in turn could be followed (or the whole preceded by) photo of Dostoevsky with the quote:"Brothers will begin to cut each other's heads off in order to obtain brotherhood."
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6 Oct. 1990## ?? Photo of DOSTOSSKYCaption: an appropriate quote from him.Orville Prescott reviews "Fyodor Dostoevsky" by R. Fulop-Miller, 137 pp., $2., Scribners, in "My Times", Oct. 6, and quotes:"Brothers will begin to cut each other's heads off in order to obtain brotherhood... It is madness to want to bring about a new era and a new humanity by sacrificing a hundred million heads..."He says there are "many amazing prophecies...of the tyranny of the totalitarian state."I imagine you have read most of Dostoevsky, and would know other quotes as good as or better than the above.![signature]
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6 Oct. 1950In re: How many pictures?"NY Times" book page says "THE PICTURE STORY OF FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT" By Gene Schoor, which will be issued Nov. 7 by Frederick Fall, will contain125 illustrations with20,000 words of text.This is evidently a second FDR photo-book, and will be competing with the SIMON & SCHUSTER (Simon Legree & Schuster) one by Stefan Lorant, "The Life of FDR in Photographs and Text".
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Letter from Shub to Sims, 26 Sept, 1950:"...On the picture book: I am following your idea of trying to get a working draft done myself, with a clear story and a tentative arrangement of pictures, before calling in a collaborator. I am going to need many more pictures than I now have to do a real job. Please continue to forward any suggestions you may have, as well as any picture material you encounter."SECRET
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A third volume of Rooseveltiana will be published in a period of a month when *Draniak Pell* will issue on Sept. 2 *The Riddle Story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt,* by Gene Schoor. It will contain 14 illustrations with 20,000 words of text. On Sept. 29 Duell, Sloan & Pearce published Frank Kingdon's *F. D. R. Said: A Treasury of His Speeches, Conversations and Writings.* Beacon Press issued on Sept. 27 "The Wit and. Wisdom of Franklin D. Roosevelt," edited by Maxwell Meyerson with the collaboration of Adelle Archer.
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o Boris SHUBJust FYI"As Russia Sees It". MARCH OF TIME, Aug. 195028 Sept. 1950Presents an analysis of the world situation today, from the viewpoint of the Kremlin. It evaluates the opportunities for conquest as Stalin and his henchmen see them, and shows why the Soviets chose to take action now in Korea rather than elsewhere.It also shows how the U.S. is meeting the challenge in Korea; the mobilization of manpower and industry; the reactivation of planes, tanks, and ships laid up since the end of WWII; and the actions which the US is taking with other members of the UN to check permanently the aggressions of Stalin and his Communist satellites. Running time about 22 minutes.Of course through someone such as Jensen, Time and/or Life could provide stills from this.
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25 Sept. 1950[To Shub]As you probably saw in yesterday's *N. Y. Times Book Review*,SIMON & SCHUSTER will be the publishers this fall of *"The Life of FDR in Photographs and Text"* (sic) by Stefan Lorant, and of *LIFE's Picture History of World War II!*Also Boris Shnab has a book coming out on *"the cold war and propaganda"*.Are you sending complimentary copies to Drew Pearson and to Bernard Baruch? The latter's recent article in *"Look"* had a sentence or two faintly, but only faintly, along the lines of the choice.If you have a copy to spare, why not send one to Gen. Wedemeyer, c/o Pentagon; he's the one who maintains the first *sine qua non* is to have a political policy.[Simó]
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19 Sept. '50Re your MS. P is in bed with some kind of fovor. He got dick today to take the MS to Floyd McCaffery, chief of research for Republican Nat'l C'ee, who will give it to the Col. Fellers tho wrote the "How to Beat the Rustians" article in the current "Colliers".Elliston (Washington Post) has hea the MS, at any rate of the last chapter. P rang Kay Halle, his sec'y, to ask her to tell him it should get all possible publicity.Don't worry too mich (except in your capacity as a tex-payor, otc.!) about the sales. Cre Elliston reading it means more than the thousands reading the "Worlds in Collision" tripe, which even Churchill can't dis lodge from #1 on the Best Seller list.Re photo-book. Fleese keep such screeds as I sent, for any possible future cross-reference.They are mainly grains of sand dropped in to contribute to the pro- duction of the pearls. (That smile seems better, the more you think of it, don't you think?)...Re Slave-labor: I suggests possible use, lacking photos, of drawings such as the enclosed from Sept. 18 NY Times Book Review by Korolkov (Stalin Prize winner!) and said to be artist of very high celibro. Don't throw it away. Wait & see. A number of his drawings appeared in *Life* a year or two ago; I've seen them, but there is no clue to the date, so you'd have to ask *Life*.Important: J says "Ask Littauer to tell Jenson about it". Of course Littauer will know to what extent you can sound out two different publishers simultaneously, should you already have approached Doubleday or another.Jensen's still being on *Life* ("leave of absence") sounds fine, but Littmer will lmow whether he (Picture Press) could handle production & advertising as well as Doubleday?Scratch my stuff abort à possible Miss photo in my screed of Sept. 15; had no time to proof-read it...Enclosed what look to mo offhand 3 or 4 highly possible quotes from Karenev & Zinovior, from frontispiece of *Murder in Moscow*.Think that Korolkov idea is worth keeping in mind. You could play up the angle: there are no photos, and they bleat about the "worker's paradise" and refuse all UN inspection committees, make survivors swear to say nothing about the camps. It is Joe's fault there are no photos on this page, but this gives an inkling of what itas like, etc.Korolkov being a stalin prize-winner adds greatly, it seems to me.Item, Photo of SHOSTAKOVICH, name familiar in every country, with just as caption the three lines of his abject, conical recantation.Bedell Smith's book, p. 298. You could also quote PROCANFIEV.Thanks for postcard. Best regards.
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19 Sept. '50Photo DIATRI SIDS FAROTACACaption: "I know that the party is right, that the party wishes me well, and that I must search for and find creative paths which lead me to Soviet realistic popular art."Why shouldn't there be photos also of PROKOFIEV and KHACHATURIAN, world names, much more living than Zinoviev et al, with as captions quotes from the incredible *resolution* by the *Central* Committee, condemning the "degenerate, formalistic, bourgeois" music, Redell Smith pp.296-8.If you were given complete license to invent anti-Stalin material on the fate of the Arts in the USSR, how could you better this?Will send brief suggested quotes from those pages shortly.
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# Excerpts from "Murder in Mexico" by General Leandro A. Sanchez Salazar,Ex-Chief of Secret Service of the Mexican Police with the collaborationof Julian Gorkin, London, Secker & Warburg, 1950.## XX"To choose the victim, carefully prepare the blow, satisfy animplacable vengeance, then go to bed... There is nothing sweeterin the world."(Stalin to Dzerjinski and Kamenev in the course of a conversationheld in the spring of 1923.)"You think that Stalin is worrying himself trying to find areply to your arguments? You are mistaken. He is only consideringin what manner he can suppress you without danger to himself."(Kamenev to Trotsky in 1923.)"He would have got rid of you at any moment since 1924 if hehad not feared reprisals from the youth section in the form ofterrorist activities. That is why Stalin has decided to start bydestroying the framework of the opposition and then to kill youafterwards, when he is sure of being able to do so with impunity."(Zinoviev to Trotsky in 1925.)"If we die suddenly, let it be known that it is the work ofStalin."(Zinoviev and Kamenev in letters placed in safe keeping after theirrupture with Stalin in 1925.)## 123Lev Davidovitch invited Joe, who was near to me, to write inhis notebook what was, I learned later, his farewell to life: "Iam sure of the triumph of the Fourth International. Forward!"## 207The working-class writer, Ciliga, after having worked severalyears in the U.S.S.R., has called it "the country of the great lie."
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fm, Sept. 11, 1950"...interpretation of Stalin's personality, coctrines and aims are pregnant with tragio misunderstandings between Americana and the Russica people - the best potential ally in the struggle for freedon,"The Russian people were the first victims of the totalitarian yoko. They dream not of expansionisa but only of the restoration of munen freedom...do 15 Stalin, he "site" as Lenin once once said, on Russian interests, because Russia st merely be used as a base for world revclution.""Stalin...and all his international benchsen fanetically believe that the capitalist syston as a whole is already ripe for revolution."They fanatically believe, as Lenin proved, that the import nce of war as a midwife of Revolution oan soaronly be exaggerated'...'"Alexander KerenskyI imagine the "spite" is a correct quote from Lenin, but referring to someone else (perhaps himself) rather than to Stalin. J. was wondering.
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TO BORIS SHOB.15 Sept. 1950Just thinking out loud. If you care to call it thinking. Call it "revolt in the provinces", "Trotzivist deviationiem" if you like. Dut don't let it upset your digestion.This will be a wonderful book. Really woll done, it should sell several hundred thousands in the U.5. alone (and Canada). At $1 the 3 "Zoo" books sold 700,000-plus. Even at $2.50 ar $3,, I very much doubt that you could do the job as it should be done for $1- it should have a a big sale. There is a crying need for it, in the US. alone. It is almost fantastic that there hasn't long sincs been a "Stalin-in-pictures" book. (But then there was no Life", to paralle the London Illustrated News" until circa 1932). There is a great thirst for really readable, believable information on what makes Stolin and the USSR tick. You are ideally set to fiil it.Just tell the story of "Stalin" (the blog) in plotures, with as mich vordage as is necessary and no more. The sovereign virtue of photos is that people who wouldn't crack a book of solid print will read a page or half page of print, if need be, if there's a photo alongside it. (Cf. the book "The Photographs of Lincoin", where I found myself reading the entire printed parte, which I wouldn't have bought nor road without the photos). Letla add to your favorite erica,The Dest Photograph tells its own story the corollary "An arresting photo will carry reader-interest for quite a bit of caption"."THE STORY OF JOSEPH STALIN". Just tell the story. What he did. What be is doing. Properly done, that will leave the reader with the feeling of rovul- ston & distrust as to what he will do next, the sups with the devil must have a long spoon.All the world loves a story. And what a story this is. As a reviewer of Deutscher said (the NY Times", I think) "After all, it's the 'success' story of the 20th Century. From cobbler's cottage zat to the Kremlin where he isSECRET