THE KHRUSHCHEV PAPERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300180023-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2006
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: November 27, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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..THE icH. U SHCHEV
PAPERS
It was never safe fora reader to judge
a book by its cover. Now you can't even
be- sure of the author, at least if he is
purported to be a former Soviet premier
like Nikita S. Khrushchev. His alleged
memoirs are being published by Life mag-
azine in a swirl of controversy.
Time Inc., which' publishes Lifc', has
refused to say where it " obtained the
Khrushchev material, which it calls his
authentic reminiscences. Before their
publication, Khrushchev denounced them
as a "falsification." So (lid Svetlana, the
emigre daughter of Khrushchev's old
buddy, Stalin, after she react the first
installment.
In the absence of ariy convincing proof
of authorship, some Western students of
Kremlin psychology have advanced an"
involved theory that the memoirs really
ere proluced by KGB, the Soviet secret
police. The idea is that their publication
in the West would discredit Khrushchev'
and those of his men still in positions of
power. It would also, so runs this theory,
help destroy the reputations of all other
Russian writers whose works are pub-
shed clandestinely in the West.
As if possibly stung by an arrow that
struck too close to home, ? Izvestia, the
Soviet government newspaper, countered
this. theory with the contention that the
fraudulent memoirs were fabricated by
KGB's American counterpart, the Central
Intelligence Agency.
IfJ he were still alive, this would be
j the moment for Ian Fleming to appear
I on' the scene, brush aside the KGB
and CIA as contenders for the honors
of authorship, and claim them for his own
creation, James Bond. If you are going
to have a ghost writer for Khrushchev,
.You might as well use a superspy who
could also write.
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