DISSIDENT NEWSLETTER DEFIES SOVIET POLICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100140006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 23, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

BALTIMORE SUDI
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Dissideiit newsietter
defies Soviei police
1 .1
Moscow Bureau of The Sun
Moscow-Another issue of scattered 30 years ago on sus-'
the Soviet dissident under-picion of having collaborated
ground newsletter, the Chr?oni- with the Germans during
cle - 0f Current Events, began World War II.
circulating in IVioscow yester- The issue was the fourth!
day in defiance of a secret circulated here in the last two
police campaign aimed at halt- weeks after a ' hiatus of 18
jog its publication. months when the chronicle's
Issue No. 31 of the Chronicle, compilers and distributors
were driven into hiding by a
27 typewritten pages, gives a; police crackdown aimed at
,detailed history of the efforts suppressing , the publication,
of the Crimean Tatars to re- which had appeared bi
turn to the Crimea from Cen- monthly.
tral Asia, the Ural fountains The Soviet - secret po
and Siberia, where they were lice, known a~ the KG,13 from
their Russian initials, . had
acted on the premise that the
chronicle, more than anything
else, held disparate dissident
elements together and merged
them into the amorphous
group known as the Demo-
cratic Movement.
The latest issue of the chron-,
icle reports that the most re-
cent actions of the Crimean
Tatars to return to their histor-'
tcal homeland was to send a
delegation of 13 representa-
tives from Central, ,Asia. ;to
Moscow last December to pie-
.sent a petition to the Central'
Committee of the Communist
party. The petition requested
that they be allowed to return:{
to ,the Crimea. 1
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