REFERENCES TO "THE POLECATS".

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• Publication Date: May 20, 1944
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REFERENCES TO "THE POLECATS".
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From: NEW YORK
To: _MOSCOW
No.: 72
V\e?4-,4444f
\IfWilDtAse\
[5.oups unredoveredikhE..ji] ipfready to
depart. [3 groups unrecovered] making use of the fact that
KhE...'has recengy,been 14 with bronchitis [9' groups
unrecovered] DAWiJ LEWITTliiiJ In brder that the .staff
of the POLECATS LkhOR'KIJfiv] '
1.3Q.Z170
's unrecoverable]
which according;to.avai able information will consent to
a two months' trip for t atment. KhE... has advised us.
that if the business goes ormally he will be able to leave
in?twe Weeks time.
Thejtatt,of/the.POL ATS will decide on Monday the
22nd' of Mayrthe'question of whe e KhE... is to stay in the
COUNTRYSIDELvJ: if/ME... agrees 5 groups unrecovered]
house, the POLECATS will arrange f1r KhE... to stay with -
him; in this cape, at a new man, [D5SochE:.,) will be under
constant obserVation and will not haVe,.eomplete [0% freedom]
of movement;/if we do not agree to thi' KhE... 'will
persuade staff of the POLECATS that is better for him
to stay Ilya hotel. .Please telegraph yo consent to
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To: MOSCOW
Nos. 751-752
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the a er an ? a.m. 'rth-'2ne May.
No. 39 MAY [MAJ][71-]
20 May
Comments: [i]
KhE...: previously reco ered as HENRY [KhENRI],
ut now known to be a ame beginning KhEJ,
K K, KhEL or KhEM. Identified as Floyd
Cle eland MILLER own in Trotskyite
circ s as Mike RT. (see Item 3 of this
.4??????????????????????????????????,r.
[ii] DAX: Jame . CANNON, national secretary
of the Soc list Workers' Party, sent tol
prison o 31 ec 1941.
iii] LEWIT , Morris: organisational secretary of
? ? ? ing_ngtional secretary
af er CANNON went o
[iv]/4120RtKI: Trotskyites.
[
COUNTRYSIDE [DEREVNYa]: exiCo.
2/41] MM: Pavel Ivanovich V1DOSI V.
W.S. No.: XY-60.1
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From: NEW YORiC,,
To: MOSCOW
Nos.: 751-752
[Part I] To VICTOR.
26 May 1944
[Two part message complete]
Rose.K4RSERCi1 has received a,/etter from the
POLECAT [KhOREK] Dianc4n FERGUSONiiiiJ (lives in the
OLD WOMANts [STARUKhA]LivJ house) in which is described
the situation regarding the alteratirons to the OLD
WOMANts house, her finances [and]laJ health, [C% and
which] says: " I tried to persuade her to go for a rest
to CUERNAVACA, ACAPULCO or some other place; while the
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alterations to the house were going on, but she would
not agree. Judging by what various persons have told
me it is essential that she should go away somewhere
at theend of therstmmer or at the beginning of the
autumn." LEWITTLIT, on receipt off;he,letter (the
detailpd cqntents we got from SATYRI71J) called up
KhE...Lviii and told him that in view of the rainy
period which would soon begin theelimate of the capital
of the COUNTRYSIDE [DEREVNYaliviiiJ was hardly suitable
for medical treatment and after that quoted Duncan's
letter. KhE'
... replied that he could not of course go
there for treatment at such a time, but that he would .
go to one of the above mentioned dry places in the
COUNTRYSIDE or to his mother's property [IMENIE] in
TEXAS, adding that he could go to the COUNTRYSIDE and
take the OLD WOMAN off for a rest to ACAPULCO, to
whieh LEWITT agreed. At the same imq. KhE... said that
he could arrange for the 0.W.'s [a]Lixi rest on his
mother's property in TEXAS. We propose for [C% your
decision]:
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1. As the POLECATS know that the climate of
? ACAPULCO is dry and warm KhE... to go there for treat-
ment arid on the way call in at the 0.W.'s [S.] and
[Part Ili together With Duncan persuade her to go fer a rest.
This will enable KhE... while in her housertq acquaint
hiMself with the surroundings [OKRUZhENIE]ibi and
[1: group Unrecovered] [D% about] (C% important]
POLECATS of the COUNTRYSIDE. On therreturn journey
from ACAPULCO to the. COUNTRY[STRANA]lx1 KhE... breaks
his journey for about 10'days'to carry out the task , ?
(of the editors of the magazine "Fourth Internationalnl.xincj
of collecting Information for articles on the Sinarquistas
[SINARKISTY1Lai. This will allow hpt,to collect
additional data on the POLECATS [on]la] our task.
2. KhE... to refuse the trip for treatment to
the COUNTRYSIDE. Instead of this to go for treatment
to his mother's property. After [/4. groups unrecovered]
rest [B% to occupy himself] in carrying: out the task
of- the'magaZine "Fourth International' and on this
pretext leave for the COUNTRYSIDE for two weeks. In this
case he will no be .able to acquaint himself in detail
with the 0.W.'slixJ surroundings though he will be
able to collect the basic data about the POLECATS of
the COUNTRYSIDE and the O.W. Wire your decision not
later than tO a.m. on the 29th of May. At the same
time please Send a detailed task for KhE..:: while in the
COUNTRYSIDE and at [B% the 0.W. 's]. KhEi..'s mother ?
has expressed a wish to pay the expenses of his trip
fer'treatment. . .
No. Io8 MAY [MAJ][xii]
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T.N.1 [a] Inserted by the translator.
[b],OKRUZhENIE: the word may havesa slight
technical flavour. Compare:its.usein the
messages published inS/ARU/T2772,
where, in the Context of agent nets working
among the Frontier Troops in Estonia, some
informants are recruited IZ OKRUZhENIYa
("from the surroundings" or "surrounding
district") as opposed.to those recruited
among the personnel of the 'units concerned .
and their wives.
[c]
Unless the parentheSis bezinning after "task"
lathe result of a garble, it seems probable
that the end of the parenthesis has been
omitted after the close of the quotation
marks ?
[d] SinarTlistas: a Spanish portmanteau word
(1--17(;r1 from "syndicalist-anarchists".
Commeno:[1]" Rose KRASNER:Mr0. David Fulton KARSNER
(nee GREENBERG), by this time married to
James P. CANNON ("DAK"), national ?
secretary.of.the.Soodalist
Party, who was
Dec 19 1.\\04)/
Elii]
KhOREK: Trotsky h
Duncan rERGUSON
u4-(1 tuo
went to Mexico : \.-0 ?
? lalter ROURKE a.s v
secretary to Nat
iv] STARUKhA:Natal'y
[v] LEWITT, Morris: (
of the S.W.P.and
after CANNON went
[vi] SATYR:. unidentifi
[vii] KhE...: Floyd Cle'vyland MILLER, alias
. mike COAT.
[vlill .JEREVNYa: Mexico.
:
fix] The O.W. ?.]: i.e; "the OLD ,WOMAN"
[STARUKhA .
[x] STRANA: the United States of America.,
[xi] Magazine of the S.W.P.
[xii] MAJ: Pavel Ivanovich FEDOSIMOV.
S/NBF/T224
W.S. No.: -XY-60.2
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