DEAR MR. RYAN :

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: December 2, 1965
• Content Type: LETTER

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2 December 1965
Honorable Williams F. Ryan
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 20515
Dear Mr. Ryan:
As 1-mentioned on the telephone, Admiral Raborn asked me
to respond to your inquiry of 23 November about The Plea vskiy
We are aware of the various suggestions that this Agency was
involved in the publication of this book, and in fact Russian propaga
has been alleging that it is an outright CIA forgery. For your infori a
Lion, material on which this book was based became available to Ar.
Deriaibin through channels of his own, and after some editorial work
. Gibney was submitted to this Agency for review as to any
security considerations. We had no reason to object on any such
As to its publication in its present form.
You asked how this xr.,aterial could have come into *dr. Deriabin's
hands. I do not know, but there are many similar cases. . For example,
the works of "Abram Tertz, ' which is the pseudonyax of a Soviet author,
have been smuggled to the west during the past seven years. These
include vehement conderaunations of Soviet censorship and control over
It has been reported that he was recently arrested by the
Soviet police. Also, Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhiiva o and books by
Vaalsrly Tarsis, Anne Akhsnaatova, Alexander Tvardovskiiyr, Alexander
syn and others have all been smuggled out of the USSR for
I a4 sending herewith a copy of The Penkovskil Papers in
which the circumstances of its publication are met forth in the Foreword.
I would very much appreciate its return when you have had an opportunity
to examine it.
Sincerely,
Lawrence R. Houston
Enclosure General Counsel
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