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SUBJECT: VAN HET REVE, Karel - #839052
REFS;
Attached Clippings from the NEW YORK TIMES ata 11 Jan 1970 and
NEWSWEEK dtd 12 Jan 1970
1. References reported that Subject, founder of the Alexander Herzen
Foundation in Amsterdam, is publishing the writings of Soviet dissenters;
notably Andrei AMALRIK, Andrei SAKHAROV, Pavel LITVINOV and Anatoly T. MARCHENKO.
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2. [Subject was granted a POA In June 1969 for use as an informant by
SB/PO/M, W. Europe, under Project AEEGGHEAD.
Atts. Refs.
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NEW YORK TIES
11 January 1970
New Dutch Group Is Publishing
Writings of Soviet Dissenters
w.iters.
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By HENRY RAYMONT
1
A group of West European, virt waters may of the
scholars have set up a non-
obsessive, fear, thu,haracters
profit organization, the Alex-sentative said. "They tend
ized the Stolin era," the retro-
ander Herzen Foundation in, that there 
is nothing in Soviet
Amsterdam_ to 
disseminate law to prevent them from pub-
works 
by dissident Soviet lishing abroad and they insist
on exercising 
their rights."
The purpose is to protect the What differentiates the Her-
author's name against piracy, the émigré presses that publish
zen Foundation from some of
political exploitation, careless 
manuscripts smuggled out of
anslations and other compli, the 
Soviet Union, he main-
cations that have often marked) 
tained, is that it has the. ap-
the publication in the West of
; proval of the authors to act!
manuscripts smuggled out of as 
their agent abroad.
the Soviet Union.
Established in 1968
With the increasing interest
in Soviet dissent. scores of The foundation was estab
Western publishers in recent, lished in 1968 
by Dr. Karel van'
months have 
turned to the, het Frie became friendly with.
foundation for 
book rights to ture at the University of
such works as 
Andrei Amal-] Leyden, with support from a
riok's "Will the U.S.S.R. 
Sur- group of Dutch businessmen.
vive Until 19842
", Anatoly T.
While he was Moscow cor-j
Marchenko's ""My Testimony," respondent for a Dutch news-)
and essays by Pavel Litvinov, 
paper in 1967 and 1968, Dr. van;
grandson of Maxim 
Litvinov, het Reve became friendly with
Soviet Foreign Minister 
under several writers who asked to
Stalin.
be helped in getting their
books published in the West.
Though the translations re-
ceived wide notice in the West-
After he returned to Amster-
orn press, little was known dam in 1968. Dr. van het Revel
about the 
foundation until one was joined by Dr. Jan Besemer,
of its representatives 
came here another Russian literature pro-
last week to 
explain its role fessor, who was also a news-
to United States 
publishers. paper correspondent in Mos-
"We received our inspiration Cow, 
and Prier Reddaway, a
from 
the enlightened 
efforts of lecturer at the London School
Alexander 
Herzen to defy to-of Economics. One of the in-
talitarian methods 
against Rus- stitute's principal advisers is
sian authors by 
publishing them Max Hayward, a translator of
in the West 
and sending their Russian literature.
books back through a literary The foundation's procédure
underground, the representa is to publish a manuscript 
in]
tive, who asked not 
to be iden- its original Russian text, there-
tified, said 
in an interview. by insuring copyright, before
offering it 
to publishers in
Western Europe and the Unit-
Herzen Had a Journal
Herzen, an aristocratic litera-ed States.
teur and father of Russian Since it placed its first book
socialism, in 1857 started a in 
the West, Mr. Litvinov's
periodical, 
Koiokol (The Bell). "Dear Comrade"
in London 
to publicize his ideas here by Pitman), the organiza-
(published
and those of other dissidents 
tion has supervised transla-
hanned by 
Tsarist autocracy.) tions and collected royalties
The journal established a long for the authors. It 
is now pre-
tradition of Russian 
publishing paring several test cases to de-
in exile that over the 
years has termine whether the authors
included such authors as 
Lenin, can be paid through official ac-f
Gorky. Trotsky and 
Pasternak:, counts in the Soviet State
"The new 
generation of So- Bank.
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12 January 1970
Underground Press
By normal city-desk standards, Karel
lt Reve wisn't much of a news-
bandh, his days as Moscow corr, spond-
:
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for the Dutch daily Het Parool. "I
kept forgetting to ask names and ages,"
be recalls. But then, van het Reve was
*dly a scholar of Russian literature who
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mera vaỹ of spending a year or so in the
Sosiet Union. And now, back at his lec
men at Leyden University, the mild-man-
vers d'avour-old ex-reporter is scoop-
se ila work! by breaking the story of
4, vocal hintal opposition movement in
Mama. Through a for lation nained
The Aksandr Herzen, the nineteenth-
dur Rosian writer who printed
Paved Russian manuscripts abroad, van
het te has begun releasing a flood of
malergo and political documents and
memoirs for publication in the West.
Acting only as agent and translator, van
het Reve made headlines with the bitter,
apocalyptic pamphlet "Will the U.S.S.R.
Survive Until 1984?" by youthful historian
Anrici Amalrik, which appeared in the
fall issue of the British quarterly Survey,
And bist week, ýan het Revé gave News-
ver Robert J. Korengold an exclusive
10% at his latest triumph over Soviet
orship: a 400-page dossier on the
closed-door trial of four Russian dissi
dents-Yuri Galanskov, Aleksandr Ginz-
burg, Aleksei Dobrovolsky and Vera
Lashikova-that took place in Mosenw's
grim: Kolom hovka Street courthouse in
carly 1968.
Van het Reve, as it happens, “cov-
ered that trial himself, shivering with
the 
rest of Moscow's foreign press corps
in 
subzero cold on the street outside the
curt. The charges were, in essence,
emylicity in the production of a “white
bed” of all gedly auti-Soviet documents
terming the 1966 trial of writers
Yah Dan and Andrei Sinyavsky plus
aliege collusion with NTS, a counter-
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revolutionary Russian émigré group in
Frankfurt, Germany, Friends of the ac-
cused smuggled out thumbnail accounts
of each day's proceelings, and when
the trial ended, van het Reve, through
his friendship with one of the self-
appointed court recorders, came into
possession of the 120 different manu-
scripts which make up the book that
Longmans Green will publish in Britain
Tater this year.
Time: Though much of the material is
technical, courageous voices like that of
Ginzburg bring the combative atinos-
phere of the trial to life. "I thought and
I cordinue to think now," he declared to
the judge, “that if 1 don't agree with
something I should express my disagree-
ment openly... I know that you will con-
viet me because not one person charged
under Article 70 [anti-Soviet activity] has
ever been acquitted. I will go off to the
camp calmly to serve my time."
Van het Reve naturally isn't eager to
reveal how he smuggled out this mass of
documentation. "Let's just say I man-
aged,” he smiles. Probably through the
time-honored methods of the plain brown
envelope and the luggage of departing.
foreigners, he and the Herzen Founda
tion, which ironically occupies the fonner
headquarters of the Dutch Communist
Party in Amsterdam, have "managed" to
receive not only the Amalrik pamphlet
and the Ginzburg trial records, but a
steady flow of other anti-regime works
including a sharp attack on Soviet politics
by Andrei Sakharov, the noted înclear
physicist, and a factual account of life
in 
the U.S.S.R.'s labor camps by Anatoly
Marchenko, who is stil! serving time for
"agitation,
A lapsed Stalinist turned democrat,
I van het Reve insists that the Herzen.
Foundation is apolitical. "Our only aim is
to give these people a chance to publish
and that's all," he says. And if he can
keep his foundation clear of damaging
outside support and free of any profit
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