LETTER TO DCI FROM JULIUS EPSTEIN DATED 14 SEPTEMBER 1956 EXECUTIVE REGISTRY 8-6414

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Mr. Julius Epstein
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Dear Mr. Epstein:
On behalf of Mr. Dulles, who is away on
an extended trip, msy I acknoviedge your letter
of septes r 14.
We will bring your letter to dlr. Dulles'
ntion on his return.
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September 1:14, 1956,
Mr, Allen Dulles
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
ZZ.30 E Street, N.W.
Washington 2:5 , D. C.
Dear Mr. Dullest.
A few months ago, I suggested in a letter to the
editor which appeared in the Washington Post &
Times-fferald, the St. Louis Post-Di atch and
the New York World Telegram and Sun' and which was
reprinted in the Congressional Record that an
AMERICAN. NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE ERECTION OF A
KATYN MEMORIAL IN WARSAW be formed with Arthur
Bliss Lane as President:.
That Committee should have the task to interest the
American people in a national gift to the Polish
people in form of an Katyn Memorial which the War-
saw Government has never dared to erect. Ambassador
Lane was delighted and wrote me that he would forz
this Committee with himself as Chairman.
Unfortunately Mr. Lane died a few weeks ago,. I now
feel, that Arthur Lane left ma a moral heritage and
that it is my duty to carry out his will as expressed
in many letters to me.
The importance of the project in respect to our psy-
chological war is self-evident. 'foutll. certainly un-
derstand the tremendous implications of the plan, event
if the Warsaw Government should deny-permission to
erect such a Memorial in Warsaw.
Itm writing to you as an old member of Arthur Lanes;
ICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE. KATYN :
MASSACRE, INC. of which I was the Executive Secretary.
Wouldn't ypu be kind enough to help me to set up the
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K few weeks ago I wrote the enclosed letter to Khrush-
chev and had it signed by six Congressmen who all were
members of the Congressional Committee To Investigate
the Katyn Forest Massacre. I also mailed the letter to
Khrushchev and released it to the press.
Radio Free Europe just tells me that they are going to
print about 1. to a million leaflets with the text. of
the letter in Polish for their balloon, operation* Of
course, it takes a long time for them. to carry out
this plan.
I also suggested to the Voice of America and to Radio
Free Europe to invite Mr. Podkowinski the correspondent
of TRYRUNA LUDU, Warsaw, who is now in the U.S. to par-
ticipate in a discussion of Katyn. Every if he should
refuse it, it would be a very good item to be used by
our propaganda media.
Very sincerely yours,
Julius Epstein.
Enclosure.
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Mr. Nikita S. Khrushchev
THE KREMLIN
Moscow, USSR
abington, 0. C.
July 26, 1956
The undersigned former Members of the SELECT
COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FACTS, EVIDENCE,
AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE KATYN FOREST MASSACRE take the liberty
to ask you why you have not yet admitted Stalin's and Beria's
guilt in the Katyn massacre of 4,243 Polish officers in the
Spring of 1940, the massacre which turned out to be the greatest
military crime in modern history.
The printed record of the investigation of the
Katyn massacre, carried. out by our committee comprises 2,437
pages, the testimony of 103 witnesses and 229 exhibits.
No other crime in history has ever been the ob-
ject of such long and thorough parliamentary investigation as
the Katyn Forest Massacre.
SECRETARY
MARY SOBEK
HAMMOND
The result of that investigation was the establish-
ment of the fact -- beyond the shadow of any doubt -- that the
Katyn massacre as well as the murder of another 11,000 Polish
officers on Soviet soil, was the work of the NKVD. Our investi-
gating congressional committee arrived unanimously at this verdict.
Since you have already rightfully blamed Stalin
and Beria for so many crimes, the non-Soviet world is at a com-
plete loss to understand why you did not include the Katyn Forest
massacre in your list of crimes committed by Stalin and Beria.
There is no crime of Stalin's which has ever been proved so meti-
culously and so completely documented.
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Mr. Nikita S. Khrushchev
July 26, 1956, page 2
There is no doubt in the minds of the undersigned
that your admission d' Stalin's and Beria's guilt in this crime would
render a great service to the cause of the truth. You would only ad-
mit what the non-Soviet world has already known for a considerable
time.
We, the former Members of the American Congressional
Committee To Investigate the Katyn Forest Massacre, trust and hope,
Sir, -- and with us the whole non-Soviet world -- that you will no
longer deprive the Soviet people of the truth which can easily be
found in the seven volumes and two special reports, published by
our committee in 1951 and 1952.
Sir,
We remain with the expression of our high esteem..
Very truly yours,
George A. ondero
7 Timothy P. Sheehan
Daniel J. Fl od
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