ZHUKOV, IN BOOK SOLD TO BRITISH, DEPICTS STALIN AT POTSDAM TALKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400360014-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 2, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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;Zhulcov, in Boo' Sold to British
'Depicts Stalin at ,o sclarn 'Talk
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Union's' own atomic bomb. Pro- Novosti has agreed to, let
grani,. according ? to a com- Macdonald publish the book in
,mandcr of Soviet armed forces its Russian version in London .
In World War Il to establish'copyright and has
said that the Soviet, Union
The account of Stalin's re- would issue the book iri Russian
espouse Is contained in the un- only after the'English..transla-'
published menloirs of Marshal tion is published ,next year.
Georgi K. Zhukov, the' cbm- Since the Sovict'?Union is not
a, member. of -the '13crne Copy-,
minder, who accompanied Sta- right Convention, its books nor
tin to Potsdam two weeks be- malty pass into the public do=
,.fore the first American nuclear main and are available .to any-,
,weapon was dropped on Hiro-one to translate.
phima.? Under. the ., ",agreement be-
;., Marshal Zhukov's version, tureen Novostl and :Macdonald,:
? which,.became available to The Marshal Zhukov, ' who is 72?..
>New York Times yesterday, years old, will nadd glishome: pas-
sages far the `English-language'
suggests that Stalin was aware version, which' is being trans-'
.of the implications' of Mr. Tru-
xnan'a report and ordered the laced by Prof.. oriann,.Erickson,;,a
Soviet nuclear research pro- military historian at Zdinburg
gram to be accelerated. Macdonald University..
has offered
A Soviet physicist who ,the;
worked in the. ro ram, Dr. crag Uni book rights tos iiig:'
I or N. Golovin, program, in a ral United States :epres nta-
& houses. through its represents-;
history of the project published ,five here, Mrs. Rhoda Weyr, a,.
,,'in 1966 that it had been accel- literary agent. It ','A' iseported to'
crated after the United States have stipulated minimum,
Thad exploded Its first bomb on price of $200,000. . . ? i
July 16, 1945, near Alamo- 3arlier efforts by Novosti'. to-l'
gordo, N,M. sell the book directly to pub=l
By XrENUY 1 AYirON'r'
Stalin, who reacted with ap- he ri s
.parent indifference when Presi- Macdonald and Co.,?'Ltd. Mi'.
'dent Truman Informed him at MacGibbon said in London .he
tlio Potsdam Conference In July, bought the ' rights for % ...six-
1015, that the United States figure dollar ,sum" In an Un-
possessed a new weapon of fear- usual arrangement with Novosti
ful power, was in fact attempt- Press Agency,.' the Soviet.,fea-
..lng to conceal the Soviet ture syndicate.
kov, 'Stalin drew him and war. conferences' and does not!
;vyacheslav. . M. Molotov, the deal with the marshal's demo-
Soviet Foreign Minister, aside tion by Stalin in 1949, his re-f
? after the conversation with turn after Stalin's death to be-?;
President Truman and declared: come Defense Minister in 1955,'.
"They simply want to raise the his dismissal in 1957 by Nikita~
1.p rice. We've got to work on S. Ithrushchev and his rehabili
Kurchatov and hurry ? things tation under the present lead-
up.ertiship.
This was a reference to Dr. Professor Erickson said that
Igor Kurchatov, a nuclear phys- the memoirs, except for a.
icist' who was in charge of small part dealing with the-de-1
atomic bomb. development. The fenso of Moscow, have not op-
Soviet Union exploded its first pcarecl before and that an es-
bomb in September, 1949. say published by the marshal,
' World book and nrararine in.1 ''65 to counter charges that,
Mr. Truman said in s fishers in the United'. States
memoirs that "the Russian were unsuccessful. Publishing
Premier showed no special in- sources said, the Soviet agency
Iterest, and Prime Minister ha' dasked $1.5-million to
Winston S. Churchill wrote, '$2-million.
'!later, "I was sure he [Stalin] Reached at his home In
had no'idea of the significance Edinburgh yesterday, Professor
Iof what ho was being told." Erickson said Marshal Zhukov's
Marshal Zhulcov indicates book begins with his childhood
that the Soviet leader deli?ber- in Moscow, tracing his. quick
lately appeared indifferent in rise in the Red Army-through
an effort to conceal the Soviet the border encounters against
jUnion's own research on the Tapan,, the crucial battle of
Atomic bomb. Leningrad, and the defenso' oP
Stalin Urges Speed-tip Moscow.
Accardinv to Marshal Zliu- The book ends with the post-
Herinlizal.lork rights to the 280; he had unnecessarily deiayedi
Olio-word memoirs or wiarsnai urn capture ur Purim unu ut t.*s,
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