REISSUE - "FIST'S" TALK WITH "GRANDPA" AND HIS DESIRE TO MEET "STEPFATHER" (1943)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 118
• Publication Date: May 17, 1944
• Content Type: CABLE

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"FIST' s" TALK WITH "GRANDPAPA" AND HIS DESIRE
TO RENT "STEPFATHER" (1943)
Item 2
From: VW YORK
To: MOSCOW
No: 704
17 May bh,
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LOA-I
Referenoe your telegram No. 2062[a].
FIST [Kula() [ ] stated the following to GIVINDPAPA[DEDUShn][ii]:
Anoording to his data, the FELLOWCOUNTRYMENIs[Plalen][iii] international
organisation has been formally dissolved. Actually the local FELLOWCOUREWYMEN
are continuing to work
[4.6 groups unrecoverable]
SMYRNA[SMIRNA][iv] took this into consideration and began to support him in
good time? Judging from GRANDPAPA's story FIST spoke partly in broad hints,
partly with cynical frankness. C. [D. and I consider that FIST'S desire
to meet the head of the TRUST[TREST][vi] (henceforth "STEPFATHER[OTChIe[vii])
means that he is striving to obtain an answer to the second point.
MAY[MAJ][viii]
No. 382 .
i7th May
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of 9h May 19144 (See Item 1).
Comments: [i] FIST : ThoMas E. DEM'.
iii] GRANDPAPA : Evgenij Dmitrievich KISEUV, Soviet Consul?
? General in NEW YORK.
[iii] FELLOWCOUNTRYMEN: Communists.
[iv] =NA : MOSCOW.
[v] G.[D.] : i.e. GRANDPAPA[DEDUShKk].
[vi] TRUST : The Soviet Embassy in WASHINGTON, D.C.
[vii] STEPFATHER : Andrej Andreevich GROMIKO, Soviet Ambassador
in WASHINGTON,
[viii] MAY : Stepan Zakharovich APRESYaN, Soviet Vice?
Consul in NEW YORK,
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