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._ STATES DEPARTMENT of srrce FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer t Washington, D.C. File No. 100134637 July 21, 1961 Re: Document Critical of Communist Party, United States of America Leaders, Written by William Z. Foster, And Submitted to Mikhail Suslov And Otto Kuusinen, Members of the Presidium of the Communist Party of The Soviet Union A confidential source, who has furnished reliable infor~ mation in the past, furnished the following information in July, 1961: According to Nikolai Mostovets, head of the North and South American Section of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CCCPSU), when William Z. Foster, Chairman Emeritus of the Communist Party, United States of America (CP,USA), first arrived in the Soviet Union, he submitted to Mikhail Suslov and Otto Kuusinen, members of the Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), a lengthy document reflecting his political thinking and his disagreement with the political thinking of CP,USA leaders. After the document had been translated into Russian, Suslov and Kuusinen studied and discussed it. They then went to Foster and advised him that they rejected the document in ite entirety and that they declined to discuss it further with him.