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To:   A. I. RYKOV

Comrade Rykov
Copy to Comrade Tsyurupa
Copy to the C.P.C. Managing Department

Please pay attention to the concession of the American
Hammer , who is now in Russia, as Reinstein , who knows
him personally, has informed me.

According to Martens , we’ve already made one great blunder, to put it mildly, namely: the goods sent to
America under the contract with Hammer by the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Trade turned out to be of bad quality. We must demand information about this business both
from the P.C.F.T. and the S.E.C. and also from Comrade
Reinstein , who knows Hammer personally. We must see to
it that our obligations under this concession are performed
with absolute strictness and accuracy, and in general we
must pay greater attention to the whole business. [1]

Lenin