July 8, 1961
Letter from Chairman of the USSR Committee of State Security A. Shelepin to Minister of Internal Affairs of Czechoslovakia Lubomír Štrougal
[handwritten: Incoming 634
24.7.61]
vb.3
[handwritten name in the upper left-hand corner]
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[Czech-language Ministry
of the Interior stamp dated
4 October 1995]
TO THE MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK SOCIALIST REPUBLIC
to Cde. Lubomir STROUGAL
Dear Cde. Lubomir STROUGAL!
The Committee of State Security under the USSR Council of Ministers invites you and a group of senior officials of the CSSR Ministry of Internal Affairs to visit the Soviet Union this year to discuss questions of organizing intelligence and counterintelligence work.
If your side has no objections regarding the meeting we request [you] report what is a convenient time for you to arrive in Moscow.
Permit [me] again to thank you for the cordial and fraternal reception of the KGB delegation and to wish you good health and success in work.
With comradely greetings
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF STATE SECURITY
under the USSR COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
[signature] A. SHELEPIN
[Attached]
8 July 1961
Nº 1694-SH
[a handwritten: “Sent via VCh”
precedes a second copy of the above]
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[Czech-language Ministry
of the Interior stamp
and Czech-language notes]
“Dear Cde. Lubomir STROUGAL!
We are glad to receive you and also Cdes. MILLER, MATOUSEK, RYBIN, and KOMAREK at the time you designated, that is, 4 September”
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF STATE SECURITY
under the USSR COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
[signature] A. SHELEPIN
20 July 1961
[Czech-language handwriting
on the bottom of the page]
The Soviet Committee of State Security invites a delegation of senior officials from Czechoslovakian Ministry of Internal Affairs to visit Moscow.
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