FOR MEMBERS OF THE POLITBURO OF THE CC RCP(b)

Urgent

Secret

To Comrade Stalin with a request to circulate to members of the Politburo (and without fail including comrade Zinoviev).

On the basis of this information from comrade Reinstein, I give my special recommendation to Armand Hammer and B. Mitchell and request all members of the CC to provide the utmost support to these persons and their enterprise 443. Here is a small path to the American "business" world, and we must utilize this path in every way possible. If there are objections, I request that you inform them to my secretary by telephone (Fotieva or Lepeshinskaya), so that I can manage to clarify the matter (and decide it through the Politburo definitively) before my departure, i.e., in the coming days 444.

24/V. Lenin

P. S. 27/V. I delayed until I received a response from comrade Zinoviev. The reply came on 26/V.

Lenin

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript