Katkov asks BR to appeal to Khrushchev along with Sir Maurice Bowra, Ayer and H.L.A. Hart so that the case of Olga Ivinskaya and her daughter can be reopened.

BR asks Ayer to sign the petition to Khrushchev.

BR tells Katkov that he has forwarded his letter to Ayer after signing the appeal to Khrushchev.

Nivat writes BR about Ivinskaia's case and her detention at a concentration camp in Potma. She is very sick and has been refused medical treatment.

Ayer asks BR to write Khrushchev again in hopes that he will be more compassionate after BR's help with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

BR asks Khrushchev to release Madame Ivinskaya.

BR thanks Nivat for his latest letter.

BR thanks Ayer for his latest letter.

BR has received a long letter from Khrushchev on Ivinskaia.

Lord Dundee details Whitehead's failed attempt to smuggle his Soviet wife out of the country and his subsequent decree of nullity.

BR informs Dundee that his influence with Khrushchev has most probably run out. He has decided that he should not approach him concerning Whitehead's case.

Katkov updates BR about the case of Ivinskaya. He asks BR for advice on the situation.

BR tells Katkov that Khrushchev has responded to him about the Ivinskaya case. He will send Katkov the letter when he returns to North Wales.

Nivat asks BR to intervene on Ivinskaya's behalf. He was engaged to her daughter but no longer has a "special interest" in the Ivinskaya case since his fiancée is now married to someone she met in a Siberian camp.

BR tells Nivat that he plans to take up the Ivinskaya case yet again with Soviet authorities.

BR asks Khrushchev for clemency for Mme. Ivinskaya.

Pendzey sends the BRPF a letter addressed to Amnesty International requesting help for her father, Julian Jankowski. He was taken as a translator for the Soviet authorities and imprisoned. He has been missing for 21 years.

Enclosed are notes on Jankowski, document .182537.

Pendzey lives in Toronto.

Sweetman encloses the letter from Pendzey and informs Schoenman that she has responded to her saying that the BRPF will look after her.

Schoenman tells Pendzey that they have raised the matter with Soviet authorities.

Schoenman informs Sweetman that they have taken up the matter with Soviet authorities.

Kagan, a Soviet Jew, tells BR about the case of her husband. She asks BR to help her with the Soviet authorities to get him back.

Also in file: a TL(X), document .182544.

BR tells Kagan that he will take up the case with Soviet authorities immediately.

Also in file: another TL(CAR), document .182546.

BR asks Benenson for help with the Kagan case. He wants to Amnesty International to be involved.

Also in file: another TL(CAR), document .182547.

BR asks Voroshilov to release Mr. Kagan on grounds of humanity.

Also in file: another TL(CAR), document .182550.

BR tells Litvinoff that they will take up the matter, probably the Kagan case.

Kaye asks for further information about the Kagan case.

Schoenman asks Rosa Kagan to state the exact position with regard to her husband's request for an exit visa.

Kagan sends the required information to the BRPF in hopes of her husband's release.

Schoenman replies to Kagan and informs her that they will continue to help with her case.

Rosa thanks Schoenman for his recent letter.

Schoenman tells Kagan that they will raise the matter with Kosygin if he goes to London in the near future.

Kiragosian asks for the help of Amnesty International. She says that her brother and his family have been "prisoners of conscience" since entering the Soviet Union in 1946.

Also in file: K.P. Kirakosian to Benenson, ALS, no date.

Kitching informs the BRPF that the Kiragosian case is out of their hands since he is not actually imprisoned. She asks the BRPF to help.

Nair informs Ayarian that the BRPF will help her reunite with her brother, K.P. Kirakosian.

Wood tells Kitching that they will take up the case with the Soviet authorities. The case is that of K.P. Kirakosian.

Rabbi Mowshowitz asks Russell for help concerning the Grigory Levovsky case. He was given the death penalty for allegedly committing economic crimes.

Schoenman responds to Mowshowitz saying that they will raise the matter of Levovsky with the Soviet authorities.

They are publicly against the imprisonment and rigged trial of Soviet writers.

Dorfman asks BR to save the life of her brother-in-law.

BR asks Dorfman to keep the matter confidential while he raises the matter with Soviet authorities.

Also in file: another TL(CAR), document .182569.

BR asks President Mikoyan for amnesty on behalf of Aron Noehovici Menialai, who is under the death sentence for economic offences.

Also in file: another TL(CAR), document .182571.

Schoenman sends Soldatov the letter BR sent to Mikoyan.

In French.

BR states that he will continue his efforts with her case.

Dorfman thanks BR for defending her human rights.

Wood thanks Dorfman for her recent letter to BR.

BR sends Soldatov a copy of the letter he sent to Mikoyan.

BR asks Mikoyan to grant amnesty to Menialai before his final sentencing with a new judge.

Dorfman informs BR of her brother-in-law's exemption from the death penalty due to BRPF intervention.

Schoenman tells Dorfman that the BRPF is glad to have been able to help with her brother-in-law's situation, which resulted in commutation of his death sentence to 15 years.

Dorfman thanks BR personally for his help.

Wood tells Dorfman that the BRPF will continue to help with her brother-in-law's case.

Medwedyk asks for BR's help. He was displaced from the Ukraine to England and now would like his wife to join him there.

Also in file: a transcription, TL(TC), document .182586, of the ALS.

BR encloses an appeal to Amnesty International (not present).

Kaye asks Medwedyk for more information about his wife.

Also in file: another TL(CAR), document .182589.

Chattin, Benenson's secretary at Amnesty International, informs BR of policy changes. Due to the increase in requests, Amnesty has decided to reduce its services to helping political prisoners solely.

Youde informs Medwedyk that the statutory declaration for his wife has been received and forwarded to Her Majesty's Embassy in Moscow.

Schoenman asks Medwedyk for the exact position with respect to his wife's request for an exit visa.

Medwedyk responds to Schoenman's request regarding more information about his wife's current position.

With this letter: E. Youde, Foreign Office, UK, to Medwedyk, 1 April 1965, document .182591 (see record 111224).

Schoenman acknowledges receipt of Medwedyk's letter.

Nussbaum would like help getting his father into Germany from a concentration camp in Russia.

In German, with an English translation written at the top.

Wood thanks Nussbaum for his recent letter. She asks him to keep the matter confidential.

Nussbaum sends the BRPF the required information about his father's appearance and last whereabouts.

Nussbaum writes about his meeting with Alexander Dinces. He found out that the address he believed to be his father's is not correct. He sends the correct address and information about the steps he has taken thus far.

Wood acknowledges receipt of Nussbaum's latest letter.

Nussbaum informs the BRPF that his father was sent to a Russian camp and not an international one. This is helpful since the Soviets checked in an international camp and could not find him.

Bushkoff asks Litvinoff for help on the part of her sister who was spared the death sentence in 1962 but is still imprisoned in 1965.

Litvinoff sends Farley the required information about Reznitsky.

Attached is a note from C. Farley, document .182604.

Farley ensures Bushkoff that the BRPF is putting much effort into the case of her sister.

Sexton asks BR for help with the release of his fiancée who was exiled to Siberia for five years. He writes with the hopes that with her good work and BR's influence she will be able to leave after 2 or 3 years.

BR tells Sexton that many execution appeals have been sent to the BRPF. He mentions that for further help Sexton should contact Peter Benenson of Amnesty International.

Benenson informs BR that Amnesty is trying to develop an effective way to intercede on behalf of Sexton. He has a hard case.

Whitehouse asks for more facts from the BRPF about Galina Rotova. She is a prisoner of conscience who has been sentenced to five years in the Ukraine.

The West Bristol Group of Amnesty International has adopted Sexton's Galina Rotova.

Schoenman informs Whitehouse that they have no more information about the Rotova case. He refers her to Sexton.

Whitehouse asks for the information on Rostov once again. He did not receive a reply after his first request.

Whitehouse asks for information on Rovotov once again.

Wood sends the letter (not present) dated 30 November 1965 (record 71776). Whitehouse apparently did not receive it the first time.

Whitehouse thanks Wood for the letter she resent to him.

Nair asks for an update on the status of Sexton's fiancée.

Hausler asks BR to prompt an appeal to the Supreme Soviet in Moscow so that Rolf V. Ruza may be spared the death sentence to which he was sentenced in December of 1963.

A Russian clipping is taped to the verso of the letter.

BR assures Hausler that he will do what he can with the Ruza case.

Also in file: another TL(CAR), document .182623.

BR writes to urge a pardon for Rolf V. Ruza from the death sentence. He instances two Soviet scientists who offered to repay any sum through their wages which Ruza may have accepted.

Also in file: another TL(CAR), document .182625.

Hausler thanks BR for his help in getting Ruza reprieved from the death sentence. Hausler informs BR that Ruza is now in bad health and would like him to help with an exit visa so that he may die with this family. Hausler does not think that he can survive the sentence of fifteen years hard labour.

BR says that he will be glad to help further with the case of Ruza. However, he does not guarantee results.

BR asks on Ruza's behalf for more appropriate treatment than 15 years' hard labour, since he is ill.

Also in file: another TL(CAR), document .182629.

Hausler asks that the new Soviet rulers be approached on Ruza's behalf.

Schoenman states that Ruza's case is being raised with the Soviet authorities.

Hausler thanks Schoenman for his letter.

Farley explains the denial of Soviet authorities to give Ruza a second exemption from sentencing (hard labour). He says that this is due to a variance of the facts. The USSR recorded 300 cases of fraud when Ruza was managing a store in Riga. He asks Hausler for any pertinent information as soon as possible.

Hausler sends the BRPF one more piece of information concerning Ruza.

Hausler updates the BRPF on Ruza's case.

Schoenman acknowledges receipt of Hausler's letter.

Kroger writes on behalf of her brother-in-law, Mr. Ruza, in hopes of more pressure from BR on Soviet authorities.

Kroger's letter is in German; document .182638 is an English translation.

Nair asks for more information about Ruza. She asks if Hausler would like the BRPF to pursue the case.

Hausler acknowledges receipt of Nair's recent letter and promises to send more information whenever it is received.

Hausler informs Nair that Ruza is now employed as a sanitarian in a prison camp for the worst criminals in Ural.

Nair acknowledges receipt of Hausler's recent letter. She says that two previous letters were never received.

Ruza is working as a male nurse in a prison camp.

Hausler updates Nair on the current status of Ruza's case. She explains a phone call by Mrs. Ruza to Mrs. Kroger. Ruza was disappointed by the fruitless outcome of her efforts.

Hausler thanks Nair for her recent letter. She asks for any information from the Soviet authorities that can be sent to the Ruzas.