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Comrade Karakhan!

Please send Litvinov and Krasin a coded message of the following kind: In Paris, arrondissement XIV, at 5 rue Victor Considerant, lives Monsieur Weisbein, who has

* The sentence breaks off here in the typewritten copy. Ed.

a suitcase containing my party and personal archive 233. Try to obtain it with the utmost secrecy. Weisbein works at the office of "Florence," 40 Boulevard Saint-Michel.

Lenin

Written June 9, 1920

First published in 1945

in Lenin Miscellany XXXV Printed from the manuscript