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AIRTEL TO BUREAU NY 100-134637 from the Soviet Union, and in a report concerning her contacts in Moscow, advised GUS HALL, CPUSA General Secretary, that ANASTAS MIKOYAN had been critical of the’ CPUSA and of HALL. The letter from CG 5824-S* further reflected that HALL was extremely angry upon receipt of this information and stated that he would file a protest with Moscow telling the Soviets to mind their own business, and threatening to sever their relations with them. The letter from CG 5824-S* further reflected that NY 694-S*, while in Moscow, should make known to the Soviets the reaction of GUS HALL with respect to the criticism by MIKOYAN of the CPUSA and of HALL. On 7/5/61, NY 694-S* contacted ALEKSEL GRECHUKHIN, Assistant to NIKOLAI VLADIMIROVICH 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), GRECHUKHIN also being in charge of the U.S. Section of the International Department of the CCCPSU. NY 694-S* informed GRECHUKHIN of the contents of the letter which he received from CG 5824-S*, emphasizing the fact that GUS HALL was extremely angry as a result of the report he had received from DOROTHY HEALEY, He stated that CUS HALL is not adverse to criticism from his own National Committee, but that he is unwilling to be criticized or to be advised by individuals | outside the American Party. GRECHUKHIN, who, according to the informant, is usually "a good natured and jolly fellow," became enraged upon listening to what NY 694-S* had to say regarding this matter and "stormed off in a luié.'' He did not even bid the informant goodbye,