Schoenman reports BR's views on European security.

Schoenman will be at the Embassy reception on Oct. 13 if he is not in Djakarta.

An invitation to an Embassy event.

BR takes offence at an implied threat. BR has recently discussed some issues with Mr. Trofimenko.

A copy of BR's letter is sent to A.A. Gromyko, Foreign Minister, USSR.

Vassev states that BR was misinformed about his talk on Dec. 9 with Schoenman.

An invitation to an Embassy event.

BR would profoundly regret any diminution in the friendliness of their relations.

On the probable cancellation of Richter's concert in Birmingham on June 21. "Expense of cancelled arrangements is crippling my work."

BR has "no option but to cancel the concert before the costs rise further."

BR has studied Kosygin's reply to his letter with great care, and requests his assistance with the IWCT.

BR notes the escalation of American bombing of Hanoi and approves the deployment of MiG Jets. BR is certain of the contributions to be made by IWCT.

Kosygin replies to BR's letter of Dec. 16, 1966. The date is the date of receipt.

BR declines an invitation to Kosygin's reception in London.

An invitation to a reception for A.N. Kosygin.

BR, on the occasion of Kosygin's visit to Britain, requests reunification of families.

BR encloses a list of Soviet citizens who wish to obtain exit visas.

BR requests a visa to the U.S.S.R. for Sidney J. Robbins.

BR encloses a 12-page list of Soviet citizens who desire exit visas.

BR declines an invitation to the 50th Anniversary Session of the Soviet Peace Committee.

BR appeals for a visa for Camilla Gray so that she can join Oleg Prokofiev.

BR requests the release of five Soviet intellectuals.

A second TL(CAR) is at document .182410.

Fishberg wishes to live in the U.S.S.R.

Spender, BR, A.J. Ayer, W.H. Auden, C. Day-Lewis and Sonia Orwell express support for Litvinov in Moscow.

BR supports Fishberg's application for a visitor's visa to the U.S.S.R.

BR requests that Kosygin renounce the use of military force in Czechoslovakia.

BR protests Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.

An appeal to the forces of the U.S.S.R. and its allies re Czechoslovakia.

BR appeals for the abandonment of the trial of Pavel Litvinov.

BR requests reinstatement of Alexander Solzhenitzin (Solzhenitzyn) in the Soviet Writers Union.

A second copy, TL(CAR), document .182420, has a note in an unknown hand: "Given to press 3/12/1969".

Matthews wishes to marry a Soviet woman, Lyudmila Bibikova, and asks for BR's help. His account of his expulsion includes Bibikov's family background.

BR will take up Matthews' problem with the Soviet authorities.

Matthews is grateful for BR's assistance.

Matthews thanks BR for deciding to take up his case with the Soviet authorities.

Matthews asks Schoenman for an update on his case. He presumes that the Russians have yet to respond.

Schoenman informs Matthews that they have received no reply from the Soviet authorities.

Schoenman asks Matthews for an update or clarification of his fiancée's problem in obtaining an exit visa from the Soviet Union.

Matthews informs Schoenman that his fiancée is unable to leave Russia. Matthews has made another formal application to the Soviet Embassy in London for a visa to go and get married in Moscow.

BR writes about Eisenhower's condemnation of the removal of Russian books from public libraries. He enclosed literature about the BRPF and requested for Bergman's financial aid and suggestions.

Bergman says she sympathizes with the BRPF cause. She explains that her involvement is limited due to possible legal problems with such a connection, her son's education and personal budget.

She informs BR of her interests in achieving racial justice and donates $25 to the BRPF.

BR thanks Bergman for her gift of $25. He wishes her son success in his struggle against compulsory military training.

TL(CAR) extracts from this letter are attached.

Bergman explains her failed intentions about wanting to telephone and hopes to subsequently meet with Russell. She tells BR about her son's anti-war activism and how much BR has inspired his moral and political stance. Bergman tells BR of the problems she encountered while trying to reach Russell: the operator informed her that the BRPF was "communistic" and "in trouble".

BR writes Bevins with regards to Bergman's incident with the operator. He requests that the appropriate steps be made to ensure that such an incident does not recur.

BR writes back to Bergman to thank her for her informative letter. He informs her that he has taken up the incident with authorities.

The Postmaster informs BR that they are investigating his concern.

Fishberg informs Wood about her case. She was refused a Soviet visa and asks the BRPF for help.

Also enclosed is a TL(CAR), 5 Jan. 1968, from Fishberg to the Soviet Embassy, UK.

Wood replies to Fishberg stating that BR will be getting in touch with the Soviet authorities about her case. She warns that the Soviets are not anxious to help with such cases.

Bergstrom asks the BRPF to help with the release of Russian poet Vladimir Bukovsky. He was sentenced to three years imprisonment. Bergstrom adds that many other famous authors have intervened (Laxness and Lundkvist).

Also in file: the December 1966 table of contents for Phoenix, an illegal Moscow magazine.

Stetler tells Bergstrom that the matter concerning the five imprisoned Russian writers is being taken up urgently by BR.

Bergstrom thanks the BRPF for their involvement with the case. He ensures them that he is dedicated to providing more information whenever he can. In the meantime he provides an excerpt from Grani, document .182450.

Tarsis asks to use all of his influence to help with the case about Soviet authors.

Sandin informs the BRPF that after a failed attempt with Kosygin, they have readdressed their concerns to Nikolai Podgorny [chairman of the Supreme Soviet] and requested that they release the detained Soviet writers. The enclosed copy of the petition to Podgorny requests that the writers be forgiven based on art. 19 in the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

Basquin requests help on behalf of Bibitsky, Demliouga, Feinberg and Nievskaia who were arrested and sent to jail because they disturbed the public order. He requests specifically a telegram sent to Kosygin.

Basquin writes about the Moscow trials. He suggests a letter be sent to Kosygin.

Deason provides Schoenman with an account of his trouble with Russian authorities. He was expelled from Russia without explanation and was refused re-entry in order to marry his fiancée. His fiancée was refused an exit visa.

Deason adds to his previous letter. He spoke with Roshohov, head of the Consular Department at the Russian Embassy, and wants the BRPF to know that he is doing what is expected of him.

Deason asks for advice concerning a recent letter from Intourist which ostensibly grants him re-entry to the USSR.

The enclosure is a typed copy of Intourist's letter, document .182460.

Deason writes that he is confused as to what steps he should take next. He feels that his situation is not being dealt with by Moscow officials.

Farley informs Deason of Schoenman's absence and asks him to be patient until he returns. Only Schoenman can tell Deason which actions have been taken thus far.

Thomson informs Sorensen that Deason's chance of returning to Moscow is not good. He says that not much can be done with people who want to marry Soviet citizens. He hopes that the Soviet authorities will be sympathetic.

Deason writes the BRPF stating that he spoke to Dedkov and was told that the telegram has been received by him.

Deason informs the BRPF of the status of his case.

Deason sends more letters on his case.

Deason informs the BRPF that he his fiancée will re-apply for an exit visa. He asks if BR thinks an appeal is worth while.

Wood tells Deason that the BRPF will try to help his wife leave the Soviet Union. She asks him to keep this matter confidential.

Deason informs the BRPF that the result of his fiancée's application will be known in 3 to 4 months.

Deason sends information on where his fiancée applied for her exit visa.

Deason updates the BRPF on his case by informing them that his plan to return to Moscow was refused. His fiancée will be making her second application for an exit permit.

Buxton tells Deason that hopefully the Soviet authorities will sympathize since all attempts on their part have failed. Buxton is a member of parliament.

Shevchenko informs Osborn that he has looked into Deason's case. He includes that there is nothing he can add.

Schoenman informs Deason of the BRPF's commitment to helping him.

Deason informs Schoenman that his fiancée's second application for an exit visa has been refused.

Wood says that she is sorry to hear about the refusal of his fiancée's exit visa. She tells him that the BRPF is still trying to help.

Deason informs the BRPF that his fiancée made her third application for an exit permit on 1 June 1966.

Schoenman thanks Deason for his recent letter.

Schoenman asks Deason for an exact and detailed account of the current state of his fiancée's request for an exit visa.

Deason informs the BRPF that his fiancée's third application for an exit visa was declined. He tried to revisit Moscow but was again refused.

White informs Walker that there is nothing they can do to help. She states that intervention by Her Majesty's government is unwise.

Deason updates the BRPF on his case; his wife's fourth application.

Deason sends the BRPF two letters from Walker.

Schoenman acknowledges Deason's letter and asks that they be informed of any changes.

Deason sends the BRPF a recent letter he received from them.

Ayer asks Russell to help with the case of Camilla Gray and Oleg Prokofiev. The couple wishes to be married, and Ayer says that an appeal by Russell would help their case with the Soviet authorities.

Isaiah Berlin asked Ayer to approach BR.

Gray asks BR for help with her case. She says all official means between the Soviet and the British have been exhausted.

Themerson asks BR to sympathize with Gray's case since her academic work on Soviet art and her fiancée's esteem in Moscow will cause the decision on their case to be solid. Once it is refused he says, there is little hope for future endeavours. Themerson credits BR for being allowed to stay in the U.K. himself.

BR asks Khrushchev to be sympathetic to Gray's case.

BR writes Gray and asks her to call him if anything should be changed in the letter to Khrushchev.

BR thanks Themerson for his letter and informs him of his recent letter to Gray.

BR thanks Ayer for his letter about the case of Camilla Gray.

On her request for a visa to the U.S.S.R.

Gray writes from the Keeper's House of the British Museum. Gray is the daughter of the Keeper of Oriental Antiquities.

BR will be glad to write again to Khrushchev about Gray's case.

BR writes Khrushchev asking him to grant Camilla Gray a visa so that she can marry Prokofiev.

Gray thanks BR for his kindness in writing to Khrushchev.

Gray tells BR that a decision on her case is imminent.

She telephoned the message.

Schoenman asks for an update on Gray's case.

BR has written to Kosygin on her behalf. Also in file: a clipping with Gray's story and a photo of her, .182510, and a typed note saying that BR was informed in Dec. 1969 that Gray and Prokofiev had been married in Moscow, 22 Nov. 1969, from the Sunday Times, 2 Nov. 1969.

Gen. Grigorenko has been arrested for speaking his mind. Beaujard requests that BR write to Madame Grigorenko in support of her husband.

Farley thanks Beaujard on behalf of BR for her latest letter. BR will associate himself with her cause.

Whitehead details her case regarding her husband who was in the British military. She asks for Russell's help so that the British courts would sympathize with her.

Katkov thanks BR for his recent letter. This letter from Katkov was previously given the date 1962/03?/, but it is more likely that it is in response to Russell's letter of 1963/07/02, record 71714.

A note in Edith Russell's hand states: "Where is Khrushchev's letter?" Christopher Farley appears to ask for the same letter from Khrushchev on 1963/07/15, record 70300. Farley mentions that Khrushchev's letter to BR gave "his reasons for not responding to the appeal on behalf of Madame Ivinskaya". Khrushchev's letter cannot be found in the Russell Archives; nor can one from BR, at this time, again raising the issue of Mme. Ivinskaya.