Alexander Vassiliev papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Frank Cass & Co; Intelligence service; Intelligence and national security; Espionage; Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti; Soviet Union
Description: Notebooks compiled by Vassiliev from Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti (KGB) files relating to KGB espionage activity in the United States during the 1930s through the early 1950s.  Includes typewritten transcriptions and English translations of the notebooks, summary narratives, a file guide, and concordance.  Also includes legal documents, correspondence, trial notes, and other papers pertaining to the lawsuit Vassiliev v. Frank Cass & Co., a libel suit concerning the article, "Venona & Alger Hiss," by John Lowenthal, published in 2000 by the journal, Intelligence and National Security Journal.
Notes: Open to research.

Containers 1-5 available through the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Web site. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/

Gift, Alexander Vassiliev, 2009.

Russian journalist, author, espionage historian, and KGB operative.

Collection material in Russian and English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010012