DISSIDENT NEWSLETTER DEFIES SOVIET POLICE
Document Type:
CREST [1]
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP88-01314R000100140006-4
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RIPPUB
Original Classification:
K
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
December 16, 2016
Document Release Date:
November 1, 2004
Sequence Number:
6
Case Number:
Publication Date:
May 23, 1974
Content Type:
NSPR
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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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