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” < OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10 4 p ~y ™ Polson - mon’ UNITED STATES GOV MENT fe Memorandum TO =: Mr, W, C. Sullivan pars: July 21, 19g7~ @ FROM : Mr, F. J. Baungar ann J9/Ju Gordy suBJECT: ~S OLO. 7a ‘S~ENTERNAL SECURITY - COMMUNIST - 5 Pursuant to instructions of Gus Hall, General Secretary, Communist Party, USA, (CPUSA), NY 694-S« departed the United States 6-18-61 for the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, He returned from this ninth Solo mission on 7-13-61, New York airtels (4) dated 7-19-61 disclosed pertinent data on the following topics: Paul Robeson, Sr. = : + ‘don we i... Nikolai V.’Mostovets, Head of the North and South American Section of the International Department of the Central Committee of “the Comiunist“Party of the Soviet Union (CCCPSU), told our informant that the noted singer, Pau Robeson, Sr./ has tried to commit suicide on a number of occasio ce_he-arri in the Soviet Union several years ago, | Lona. hit tee_ member, Mostovets said, ae The Director inquired if it was correct that is a CPUSA National Committee member. This is correct, | was elected to the National Committee of the CPUSA at its national convention in December, 1959. William, Z. (Koste a _ _— Dimitri Sheviyagin, a.deputy of Boris_Ponomarev, Head of the International Department..of the -CCCRSU, told our informant that ~~ William Z, Foster, CPUSA Chairman Emeritus, who is presently in the Soviet Union receiving medical treatment, 1s apparently a paranoiac, Igor Michaelov, a member of the International Department of. the CCCPSU, advised our informant that he had recently returned to the Soviet Union as Ambassador to Indonesia and was "slated" to be Ambassador to Poland, . 6 “ \4 3 Enc 22g, 7FRELGL REC- Me-L2ROG/ — L AS 100-428091 med ey 1 =- Mr. Belmont aif . _1 = Mr: Evans ey # JUL 25.1961 1 = Mr. Sullivan AS L - Mr, Fox 1 ~ Mr. Baumgardner Men as i CY FFF:b1y" (6) = @G JUL 271961