SVELTANA'S WORKS HELP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200680018-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: September 12, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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origmal rights.
All of this has given Svetlana's
book d
ing with those which had paid huge;
sums f
Sveltana's. Works Help'..
While Washington officials fum-~'
bled the opportunity to exploit
the. propaganda opportunity of-
lisped works a ear, ? to be. making
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The.' New York Times' and Life
Magazine':. this week begin publi-
es ermany where it was',
? sold by the .Soviet journast, '. Vic-.
tor Louis, to publications'
om et
lishers plan to; ut out,the ,book }
Oct..2.
All of - these :":publication ? dates';
were. advanced because of fears.l
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cation of``eXcerpts from "Twenty, i
..Letters to...a Friend,"..:an autobio-:l
graphical book by. the. only daugh- z
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that unauthorized European pub- #
fishers may have.. portions of the
book. A pirated'manuscript,, ap. `
peared a few weeks ago in England
and W t G
Y The Atlan-=
I tic last June, adequately answers;
!the Soviet charges.,
She writes: pay no .
? atten
Lion to th 1
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B
( ternak " o oris Leomdovich pas
published b
e
vo ution Nov. 7,
A passage" from Svetlana's docu-~'
ment T
a vane publicity rivaling.
that of William Manchester's They
"
Death of a President." Her 80,-
000-word autobiographical work.
re
presents more ,than $2.5 million
In first serial rights and advance
book. royalties.
Its propaganda value is perhaps
best attested to by the reaction in
the Soviet Union. A Moscow mag-
azine recently charged that the;
Central Intelligence Agency ghost.
(wrote her memoirs. It further
clai
d t
me
he CIA was planning .to
/; use the memoh;& s the highlight
of a flood of "pulp literature" to:
be disseminated in Russia to spoil;
fr` the 50th anniversary of the Bol-
shevik r
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fume existence;
which I have Ie
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s anderous things they;
will say about me - but this was
the way life would have it.... You? '
must understand that events are.,
taking their inevitable course. Fate
has decreed that I l
eave you, that;
Y change my Whn1A ,;F.. .._ , _ .