(04-10069-10041] "PROCESSING BEeIENG cent, é chad, ‘soviet | Bloc Division ; ——— _Ghie®. Buropsan — ; 8 SSA EERENID = c "REDTOR/AGREGATED/ ABREGATTA/ 2 Furthér Contact with owner : Controle on “intellectuals in the USSR. 2. Lead to Anti-- Soviet Bulgarian Pirst Secratary. t . Rd - REPBRENCE s (ora) 88716, 2 December 1968 - 2. Age mentioned in the referenced dispatch, Identity continu te have contact with Soviets and apparently as indicated in } ABREGATTA/2's rvoport, forwarded under separate cover, with SOVBLOC | offielals as well. - ‘2. Identity's report on repression of intellectuals in the USSR and a recent tightening of the screws as he quoted an Investig correspondont is also of interest. In this report pleace note ABREGATTA/2's report on a recdnt traveler ta the USSR described in nee 69081. ° “gince there are throe First Secretaries in the Buigarian ‘anooy wo could not identify the official. It could very woll ; ONNEGWAR but Station cannot confirm this since ADREGATTA/2 _ dindigated identity did not volunteer the’nane, and as experienced in the past with PAINBERG, will not give our names. The Station wili try again through AEREGATTA/2. Khekasamafa eegort ew percitle ank- Soviet aiaduds ote “Dullgpor tan VT Sea » woesibly Wenfus easwar, Sp Attachment : Report U.S.C. af f. Bg ae ™) wk i bun fx q Dist: J= C/sp w/att u.s. yo. a .3 = C/EUR w/att us.c. COPATON GYR AAD RURBGA e2 (orra}s90s2
14-00000 i Usually discreet about his/freequent/meetings with Soviet: ; vigitors to France#, Aronson told me today quite a number f _of things on his latest encounters with them.So first he : said he spent an evening with Mrs Biasheva - a theatrical eritic from Leningrad.It is not the first time he met her, 30 she told him "that for the moment in Leningrad is quite § a difficult oppressive atmosphere," "that the intellectuals £ have more difficulties than ever" and once,taIking about the Tchecoslovaquia events Mrs B. told Aronson : “please do not attribute to us the opinions expressed by Literatournaya Gazeta - we the intellectuals of Leningrad were dead onposed to it/the invasion/". From other meetings Aronson had lately with Soviet visitors, namely one correspondent of "“Izvestia",he got also impres- sion of a particulary tight "zajim"/turn of the screw/which . is felt presently in USSR,especially in both capitals.Then, he said,he got the impression that in USSR the intellectuals find themeelves more and more isolated from ordinary people which,under the action of new directives given by the autho- rities becomes “hostile toward them".What are these new in- structions given by the sov.Guthorities ? - "To spy each other and particulary the intellectuals/whom one cannot trust . to fight foreign influence and manners,to be proud of their A great comm.party,to become true proletarians"”."Apparently - paid Aronson ~ the party turni now toward the "base", toward the lower layers of the population in order to find there : support against the upper circles of the population who are ¢ fed up with the régime".The new directives,Aronson told,bore |: fruit particulary in Moscow,where according to all his inter-}; locutors population became lately hostile toward the forei-  f- enerse and toward their own intelloctuals.Also peop'e in the street,in the shop became particulary rough and un>leasant. Everyone uses “unprintable" expressionsa,which spread also among the youth and in the sdools. SEER E RONG IPT OER om Decrees Spear RR ena anne ay Aronson related also about thesvening he spent recently with the First Secretary of the Bulgarian Embassy,who with his wife were guests of Aronson in his restaurant."Contrary to e what I expected - said Aronson = it turned out that thio Bul-}} oo -. garian diplomat is definitelly anti-communist minded,and is fF oo <.« set against the Soviet Union". "It surprised me so more,as ; , usually Bulgaria is considered the most friendly satellite i of USSR and also because in the embassies of these countries, ff : the First Secretary is a particulary trusted and powerful 9 EB. figure".I asked Mr.Aronson if this attitude of the Bulgarian | ‘ i 74-6 - 73873 Rees, isfe axt| #9 OFFA Y bn hyp A. 0725S §: “,
Secretary was not intended in some provocative purrose.So Aronson replied that he did not think so : because the Bulga? rian diplomat had no reaso to provoque him.Aronson noticed | also that the Bulgarian diplomat expressed admiration for all of those theatrical authors which usually are particula- ry hated by the communists.When &ronson asked him about the . theatre in Sophia'and if they could produce there buch plays) ; ag. they wanted, the bulg.diplomat replied that thank God in &s that sphere they were in Bulgaria etill fairly independent and that so far Moscow did not put its noze into it. cd e. w My comments : Two points in the statements of Aronson eall attention : First about the "new instructions and directives” given in USSR and Second : about the anti-~communist dispositions of the First Secretary of the Bulgarian Embassy in Paris./If the later is true,it could be quite a “possibility’/. Ly ACDUCTIO 1409 oe ere RE CARY..REPAO tmnt AREATU serene een Sole? Bateea sr
14-00000 ss: petellgniddiolibtae cigar Belt oe Appendix A. Lev Adolphovich ARONSON /often called Mir. Dominique/, owner a of the russian rest. "Dominique"19,rue Brea, Paria 6,tel : * , 326-63-92. “ ener tues Personal date & character. Mr. Aronson is a curious figure. A very prosperous business man,he is rich.He possesses a uni- que collection of russian. antiques, He is also the best theatri| cal-oritic in Parie.He contributs regulary to the russian magésine “Vozrojdenie". He has aleo some relatives in USSR where he went many timee.Of Jewish origine he however is de=. voted toward old Russia.In his restaurant he entertains con- tinually Soviet visitors and he probably is in Paria the man who meets the most Soviet citizens.He ig-well acquainted to several members of the USSR embassy. He is no doubt very intelligent.He is also pleasant,has good manners and like to entertain people in his restaurant.As to his political opinions judging from what he always says and always writes,he is an awowed anti-communist. Weeknow him aince many yoare and we are with him in excellent terms, thopkh we never became friends.He haa a high considera- tion for Z and now writes also for RM. % g ey,