(foa-tovtg-10367 co, ne | . 20 February 1970 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD: SUBJECT: VAN HET REVE, Kerel - £839052 REFS} Attached Clippings from the HEW YORK TIMES até 11 Jen 1970 and HEWSWEERK até 12 Jan 1976 1. References reported that Subject, founder of the Alexander Herzen Foundation in Amsterdam, is publishing the writings of Soviet dissenters; notebly Andrei AMALRIK, Andrei SAKHAROY, Pavel LITVINOV and Anatoly @. MARCHEEKO. Fs Esa | Sarah K. Hell sRs/os J Atts. Refs. & 4 i; “ te te “/ Moen rE jem 4 eo tbe Cat Le. Ve . Le! oO ZS
74-00000 .43 “rir ofr Caen er etn mire tet e, \ SES SO Tea an xe ae SSRI NCE NEMA a .to United States pebtishers, paper cersespondent in Mas-| _Aleander Herzen to defy to-|.0f Economics. One of the in- _ Wied. said tn an intere jew. Thy insuring copyright, before “teur and father of Russian in London to pubticize his ideasi here by Pitman), the organiza- NEY YCRK. TIES 7 “ 44 sarmary 1970 , New Dutch Group Is Publishing V/ritings of Soviet Dissenters’ Ty HENRY RAYVONT A Rtaup af West Eurapean, vet Nreets oe oe ar tie 5 lena ' SEAR L args Saat Par ane Shans Fcholars Raye fet. a a nan ired the Stan pre, fo revit. Prong organization, Me Alex) gantsuve said. “They coniend . 27 Ser_Herzen__Foundation. in. sha: there is nothing in Saciet mrlercam, ta disseminate’ jaw ta prevent them frum pub- Werks “by dissident Soviet! Jisking zbroad and thev insist we Hers, i On ee ae their tae ' ms : . nat differentiates th f vu Purpose is to protect the! 4. Foundation from some ‘of aninor & name anainst PITACY,! the émigré presses that publish; palitval exploitation, careless’ manuscripts smuggled out of wamslations and other compli-; tha Soviet Union, he main- entiung that have often marked| tained, is that it has thr. ap-l the publication in the West of; foveal of the authors to act! tee ees Smugaled out of! as their agent abroad { the Soviet Unian. i Established in 19¢8° With the increasing interest: Stablished in 1268 | in Soviet discent, scores of The foundation wos estah-! Woestren Pusliskers in recent, lished in 1968 hy Dr. Karel van’ sMonthe hase tusned ta the leg Frve heeame friendly with foundation for bank rhets fer NiPc al the University af suck warks as Andzel Amal-| Levden. wit Supaore fron a: Tiok’s ‘Will the USSR. Sure} &roup of Durch businessmen, vive Until 19847", Anatoly To ° While he was Moscow core Marchonika’s “My Testimony,”| respondent for a Dutch news. and ¢ssays hy Pavel Litvinov,|. paper in 1967 and 1988, Dr, van: grandsaa af Masim Litvinov, | her Reve became friendly with! | Soviet Forsien Minister under; Several writers who asked to! Statin, . he helped in Retting their Though the translations re-{ books published in the West ccived wide notice ia the West-! After he returned to Amster. em prees, Httle was known dam in 1968, Dr. van het Reve, about tie frundation until one Was Joined by Dr, Jan Besemer,{ Of its representatives came here another Russian fiterature pro-| last week tn explain its rote fessor, who was also News! “We received our insniration COW, and Peier Reddaway, a fron ihe enlightened cffarts of lecturer at the Tan on Schaal taliturian methods against Rus! Stitute’s principal advisers is Sian authors by publisting them) Max_Havward, a translator of in the West and sending thoici Russian literature. bonks hack through a literary: The’ foundation's procedure underzround, the representa-, i8 to publish a manuscript in tive, who asked atta he to he iden! its original Russian i@xl, there- offering it te ublishers i Herzen Had a Journal : Western Europe and the Unit. Herzen, an aristocratic litera-) ed States. Since it placed its first bao Socialism, in 1857 started alin the West, Mr. Litvinov's periodical, Koioknt (The Belly,}“Dear Comrade” (published and those of other dissidents|tion has SuptPviged — transla~ banned by Tsarist autocracy.jtions and collected royalties The journal established a long:for the authors. It is naw pre- tradition of Russian publishing Paring several test cases to de- in exile that aver the years has termine whether the authors included such authors as Lenin, can be paid through official ac~ Gorky, Trotsky and Pasternat:. aunts in the Soviet State “The new generation of So- Bank. ws perce steer a oa
eke tee i a 12 January 1970 — ; widerground Press . Hy normal cityedesk standards, Karel lick Reve wre: much af a news- word hisdass as Meseme ener, spond. petder the Dutch daily Het Parnol. J cop? forectting: to ack names aed age,” has recut, Hae then, van het Neve was oy ascholiar of Russian Hterotare who ha tonly signed on with the newspaper sea went of spending a yeor.or so fh the Seah tinion, And naw, hack at his lee- fort Levdes University, the mild-man- Petes ag yey eepernbed ex-reporter iS scoop. weil werk Pay Drecebrnye the story of a yecat hie rob oppesition movement in erytrure: asintr Poerzen, the ninetcenth- Aessian writer who printed batcegh Diagssian manuscripts abroad, van bea de co has bern releasing a flood of cmateritvednd pohtieal documents and miumoirs for publication in the West. Acting only as agent and translator, van- het Reve made headlines with the hitter, apocalyptic pamphlet Servive Until 19842" by youthfnl historian amted Amabik, which appesred in the fall issae ef the British quarterly Survey, sad dost week, Can bet Reva gave News. weirs Robert 1 Norengold an exclusive how at Jus Titect triumph over Soviet eoomsbip: a 400-pave dossier on the clueddoor trial of four Russian disci. derts—Yaari Galanskov, Al-kwunds ing. hors Aleksei Dobrovelsky and Vera Lastkesaethat touk place in Moascnw’s som Nolonchevka Street courthouse in carly BOGS, Van het Reve. as it happens, “cov. ered” fhat trial himself, shivering with tae rest of Moscow's foreien press corps in subzero cold on the street outside the court, The charges were! in essence, com hediv in the production of a “white “of all cedly auti-Soviet documents fcercrming the 1966 trial of writers Yoko Staand and Andrei Sinyaysky plus ahegesl enfipson with NTS, a countey- nt. “Treen no fo tedition named - “WH the USSR. . * H 8 7 revolutionary Russian crnigré group ‘in Frankfurt, Germany, Friends of the ac- cused smuggled out thampuail accomnts of each day's proece lings, and when the trial ended, van het Reve, through his friendship with one -of ‘the self. appointed court recarders, came into pessession of the 120 diferent manu- feriptis which make up the book that Loagmans Green will publish in Britain “Tater this year, |. ; Foc of oe Time: Though much of the material is: technical, couragenus voices like that of Ginzbure bring the combative atnas- phere of the trial to life. CT thonght and Towing to think now,” he declared io he judge! “that if Jo eae agree with - semething T should express my disagren- ment openly... Dknow that vou will con- vict me because not one person charred under Article 70 [anti-Soviet activity] has ever becrt acquitted. Lwwill co off to the camp calmly to serve my time.” ; -Van het Reve naturally isn’t eager to reveal how he smnggied out this mass of docuncniation. “Let's just sav Fo oman.” weed,” he smiles. Probably through the tiae-honored methods cf the plain brown ‘envelope and the Jugcace of departing: foreigners, he and the Herzen Founda- Hon, which ironically occiipies thé fonner headquarters of the Dutch Communist Party in Amsterdam, have “managed” to reveive not only the Amaiik pzmphlet and the Ginvburg trial records, bat a steady flow of ather anti-regime works inchiding a shenp attack an Soviet politics by Andrei Sakharov, the noted nuclear physicist, and’ a factnal account of life in the U.S.S.R’s labor camps by Anatoly Marchenko, who is stil! serving fime for “agitation. A lapsed Stalinist turned democrat, . -van het Reve insists that the Herzen _ Foundation is apolitical. “Our only aim is to give these people a chance te publish and that's all,” he says. And if he can . keep his foundation clear of damaging - outside support and free of any profit _ mnetive. as 46 nay nes, voll Feaye revi Lobe fa lata : t tre ate bal tye the ete CO hte pace tuar SEIS Gott erteccd the dere ion ai glue. hein sucin opps abroad, ; geal Viatndys bee ETL ee nent ee