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June 21, 1948

Counter Intelligence Corps Reports on the 'Katyn Forest Murders

The U.S. Army investigates what happened in the Katyn Forest in 1940 using the accounts of locals, newspapers, intelligence, and diplomatic correspondence.

September 20, 1950

Cable, Gromyko to the Soviet Ambassador, Peking

Cable explaining that China and the Soviet Union are getting incomplete information from North Korea. Also discussing how North Korea is doing militarily and China's admission into the UN.

June 30, 1950

Cable No. 405743, Shtykov to Stalin

North Korea requests supplies and weapons from the Soviet Union.

June 26, 1950

Telegram from Lake Success, Trygve Lie to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow

A telegram conveying the UN Security Council's resolution calling for North Korea to withdraw from the 38th Parallel.

April 22, 1989

A. Sukharev et al to the CPSU Central Committee, 'On the Question of Katyn'

A group of Soviet officials propose that the KGB, among other institutions, investigate the circumstances and locations of the deaths of Polish officers interned in the Soviet Union during World War II.

April 26, 1988

Eh. Shevardnadze et al to the CPSU CC, 'Measures to Build the Site of the Burial of Polish officers in Katyn (Smolensk Oblast’) and the Expansion of the Access to it of the Citizens of the PNR and of Other Countries'

Shevardnadze and other Soviet officials propose to create a memorial to Polish officers murdered during the Katyn massacre as well as "Soviet POWs who took part in the exhumation work," and to allow Polish citizens to visit the memorial in Smolensk Oblast’.

August 28, 1980

Note, M. Suslov et al to the CPSU Central Committee

Suslov describes the "tense" situation in Poland and proposed steps to use military and police force to quell the protest movement.

1976

The Katyn Affair (A Brief Memo)

A Soviet record, probably dated from 1976, that offers an official CPSU stance on the Katyn massacre. The memo also describes various post-war "provocations" by the United States and other Western nations to bring attention to the Katyn massacre and inflame Soviet-Polish relations.

April 5, 1976

Excerpt from Minutes Nº 3 of the CPSU CC Politburo Meeting of 5 April 1976, 'Measures to Counteract Western Propaganda about the so-called “Katyn Affair”'

The CPSU Central Committee issues five directives to combat the "anti-Soviet" campaign concerning the Katyn massacre.

March 30, 1976

Note, Yu. Andropov, V. Kuznetsov, and K. Katushev to the CPSU Central Committee

Yu. Andropov and other Soviet officials propose that, due to the "anti-Soviet campaign" concerning the Katyn massacre in the West, Poland and the Soviet Union should coordinate countermeasures.

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