MISSTATEMENT ON SOLZHENITSYN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01082A000900040001-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2004
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• Publication Date: November 18, 1974
• Content Type: MF

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IC 7 4- 2132
18 November 1971
MEMORANDUM FM- C/PRL
DO PIID
SUBJECT: Misstatement on So?shenttsyai
"Nationalist Tendencies Growth
Russians in Soviet Union. " N X. 14
bar 1974. SECRET
1. The references article is the second by OCI in a c:a:rre
sarise in the NM an regional tee oencies in the USSR. It contains
an i eaadvertent raisre?ressat$tioe- of the views of Aleksaadr. 1, lah !nit::
The error detracts free the high quality of the rest of the urtick and
is inconsistent with the standard* generally achieved by thti rar -h
of OCI on Soviet t *ersal politics.* While Solahenitsyn iiti niaelf is n.o(
a crucial factor in current US policy decisions. the pro.nin-tnce
attained worldwide and the likelihood he will visit the UJ in the a -
future suggest that rrtontlon of his name probably attraci s if sits ~a
of a fair number of the high-level readers of the NID. A' ho a*. th re
fare, that something cam- be done in the way of a low-ke ! etrrrect =1rs.
2. The error lien in the assertion that '5o1shenitsye
Independence. hoe-ee-ver, for the Ukrainian and Belorussian r,apuh1ici
The CRS dossier an olshe nitsyn contains no information supporting
that assertion. On the contrary, Soishenitsyn said this yetr
can thews be any question of any peripheral nation being forcibly p-t
within the bounds of our country" (Letter to the Soviet L eaeters,
of the English edition. p. 28n of the Russian). to a histortiml co-.Ws-
he has strongly crlticieeed Moscow's opposition to "Overy ensue
any national republic to act upon its right to leave the BSS
Archipelago. p. 62 of the English paperback edition).
3. 1 believe that the author or editor of the reference
has confused the vi w of Solzhenitsyae with Those of activit
OsipoY. still In thee et Union. A previous Nil article
on the a*tio nalitIIs in the USSR, produced last ye e r
by the author of the rafer.nced article, is typical of those ataa . rd
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ct is be ad on &a air&ra= from i * cow in
V it ratter claarly id tiiTi*4 with those particular ?i ws
-Russian a4tieslides, and is portrayed as the typi
Roasts aationaIist. I theretose recommend a sirnib
ats heae lines: ' a tth retereauce to than article
'Rua$ioa activist Viar1LZIit Ostpov' a
'end writer (author) Aleks" it
Selsheaitayn'. " I t k the rest tracks as a dsscripti*n tf v4ha
is known sr can reastnabl}= be inferred about Osipov.
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W'Eoyiiet Dissid s follow T Opposing Cauzses, ' NW-.
3 September 197 t, CC 'iFU)F-NT 4 "5*vlet Dissident:
Cis, 71 ff Nees ytet Jnien-Z-ster ogr1 30 Au
CLAN EnTIAL.: 'S9vri4t Diss ennc~-e-
Ax Fib" OW ere 2OQ34/1 :
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