CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90-00806r000200970066-1: RETURN TO THE GULAG

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STAT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/30: CIA-RDP90-00806R000200970066-1 AD_11CLE .~ , i YORK TIN 'S ON PAGE June IIE i Q8 14 Topics Return to the Gulag has dm& more th= eigm the borrors of the Soviet penal system. -Re has used royalties from "The Gulag Archipela- go to help new victims of repression by creating a fund that for a decade' has operated from Slvtaerian - . Now, in a sinister Lora. Soviet managers. of the Sol:bmitsyn Fond tors With cbmW tzeasonm' state prteeeu. Though the &G.B.bas harassed the ttmd's managers and recipients of Its help, this is the Tsrst same anyone in. calved has faoad a death peoaity. Mends that his work as Leningrad managerof the fund turned him into a had ref used to uudesss d "thoughtless in as a ce t and protracted show trial, he risked death for treason, instead of six or seven years in prison. So one can guess the couege of the fund's-_M0-8-cow manager, Sergei Ibodorovich, who reportedly resisted confession despite two months in prison. Though the fund's work is neces- sarily discreet, it has over the years helped more than a thousand families. Its revenues average SI20,000 a year. That is a trickle of assistance for via aims who usually lose jobs when a. c used of Crimes of conscience and face jail or confinement to "psychiatric" det mina~tian to make a closed sad. sty hermetic. If the aeco lty agency's, former boas wants to prove be is still a cop at heart, Ynri Andropov is sic- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/30: CIA-RDP90-00806R000200970066-1