VASSILI SOUKHOMLINE @ VICTOR SAMARET

Created: 9/21/1949

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENC'. C.

MEMORANDUM FORi

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INVESTIGATION tKEVictor SAKAHET

Our attention haa bean mths because of his connection :anco beaded by Paul RIVET and"

jod on" Vassili SOUKHCMLIHE in roc fo new "Socialist" group in lioaticn "CahierB International

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was bornTn PotVograd (Russia)e reportedly studied inYFranoo and, after receivingthe Uni veralte de Uontpeliier, he returned to7 or thereabouts. After leaving Russia ha tec ho Slovakiaunber of years and1ttrtoB/'fliiile in this country heorrespondentin iiussi-Mi language newspaper,e returned to France whore he

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ccomplished Journ^ie^SOUlfflC^HB writes principallyFrenoh publicationsTempsob Lottros Francaises" and "Tribune des Nations" underof Viotor SAMARET. Ha has also written for severaland,9e was editor in chief ofpublication "Europen oharge of_theof the I il f

S. It has also been reported'that SOOTHOtfLISE waa not considered pro-Soviet until his visit to the Uni tod States when heember of the Council for Soviet Amerioan Friendshiplose friend of Lucien VOGEL, an active member of the French relief organisation "Franceho is known for his Communist sympathies. InXHCMLIRE ia said to have numerous influential friends end to associate openlySoviet and Communist elements*

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FOR TIE DIRECTOR OF CERT RAL IKTHLU

State Department

4. Wa would appreciate having you forward us any materialOUKHCalLIHE and Mb activities you may have acquired while he was in the j United 8tates. Wo are -particularly lnterestsd in obtaining information

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