BOOKS FOR IDIOTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200080004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2014
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 13, 1966
• Content Type: MISC

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H roreign uocuments Division
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.1966
SP-1319
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Translated by FDD by special
request.
BOOKS FOR IDIOTS
-.pzechoslovakia -
[Following is a.translation of an article
by J. Boucek.in the Czech-language daily 2
newspaper Rude Pravo /Red Right/, Prague,
21 Nov 664 ?p lj
;Under this unflattering title an article was published'
in the anti-Soviet and anti-communist American journal
The Russian Review.. The article criticizes sharply prominent
works in anti-communist and anti-Soviet literature. An
.article by P. W. Blackstock deals with the so-called histori-
cal school of Besserovskiy. which - as indicated by what is
said further in this article - is a grandiose mystification
by which the most serious-minded political circles of the USA,
and other western countries were taken in. -
The above-named Besserovskiy is. a Russian emigree who
has been -knocking about in Pa3Cis for a number of years and
managed to make a living as he could. In 1947, when he was
in a. difficult material situation, he got an. idea. He took
advantage of the first wave of the .cold war which just
started at that time and created a falsificate, namely
fictitious memoirs of the collaborator General,Vlasov under.
the title of I Chose the Gallows. It was a sensational'
oublication and Besserovskiy continued with gusto. In the
next book he invented.an inexistent colonel ..of the Soviet,
general. staff, Ivan Nikitio Krylov, under whose name he
published a book entitled My Career in the Soviet General-Staff. ?
The book was published in five translations at short inter-_
vals.
Encouraged by the success, Besserovskiy published
under the name of Kiril Dimitrievich Kalinovskiy another
falsifioate under the title of Soviet Marshals Speak.
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