To Comrade A.N. Kosygin

	In conformity with your request, we present a draft report to the Central 
Committee of CPSU, rewritten in light of the exchange of opinion that has taken place at 
the Commission meeting, and other materials on the matter of  SAKHAROV and 
SOLZHENITSYN.

R. RUDENKO 					V. CHEBRIKOV

September “28”, 1973
#2260-Ch

                    

TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF CPSU
	Per the instructions of the Politburo of the Central Committee, dated September 
17, we have examined the question of the anti-Soviet activity of SAKHAROV and 
SOLZHENITSYN, which they have engaged in for some years, but most actively in 
recent time.
	SAKHAROV and SOLZHENITSYN have revealed themselves once and for all as 
enemies of the socialist system; they have issued a whole series of statements directed 
against policies of the Communist Party and the Soviet state.  In essence, they have united 
with reactionary circles of imperialist countries and are acting in unison with their special 
services against the policies of the CPSU and the Soviet government directed toward 
relaxation of international tensions and peaceful coexistence between states.
	Just during the period of August and September of this year, SAKHAROV has 
conducted, at his apartment, three press-conferences for foreign correspondents, has given 
several interviews, and passed on to the foreign press a number of statements, including 
an “Open letter to the US Congress.”  During his meetings with foreign correspondents 
and in his statements, SAKHAROV persistently appeals to the West not to embark on the 
course of rapprochement with the USSR without “extracting from Soviet leadership 
concessions” of an ideological and political nature.  SAKHAROV portrays in a 
slanderous manner the Soviet way of life and attacks the state, political and social 
systems of our country.  (A report containing materials on the hostile activity of 
SAKHAROV is appended.)
	Speculating on his status and on his services to the country, enjoying support of 
those around him and of Western reactionary circles, SAKHAROV has come to believe 
that he can conduct his anti-Soviet activity with impunity.
	There is information that SAKHAROV intends to continue meeting with 
representatives of the bourgeois press, slandering our country, and involving Soviet 
citizens who share his views in his hostile activities.
	Having weighed all factors and taking into account the international situation, we 
submit for consideration the following measures to put a stop to the hostile activity of 
SAKHAROV:

	1.	To direct the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, 
Comrade V.A. KIRILLIN; the president of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 
Comrade M.V. KELDYSH; and the Director of the Lebedev Physics Institute, N.G. 
BASOV to invite SAKHAROV to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and to conduct 
with him an appropriate conversation.  SAKHAROV should be told that the Soviet public 
is exasperated by his behavior and that he should stop his anti-social activity and cease 
making anti-Soviet statements.  SAKHAROV should be told that there are persons in his 
circle who are connected with the special services of Western countries, who are paid for 
performing certain tasks, including the task of instigating statements by SAKHAROV 
himself.  He should be told that the situation has been exacerbated by the fact that 
SAKHAROV, having started down the path of criminal actions, has stopped doing any 
science, and that the Physics Institute is paying him his salary for no reason.  Depending 
on SAKHAROV’s reaction, in concluding of the conversation, it could be intimated to 
him that a way out of the situation would be for him to leave Moscow for one of the 
country’s special regimen cities and engage in scientific work there.

	2.	Should conversation with Comrades KIRILLIN, KELDYSH, and BASOV 
fail to produce positive results, to direct Comrade R.A. RUDENKO to summon 
SAKHAROV to the Office of the Procurator General of the USSR and, on the basis of 
documentary material on his hostile activity, to explain to SAKHAROV once again that 
his actions are violating the laws of our country and, therefore, criminal charges should be 
brought against him.  However, we believe that he is able to think over once again his 
actions and to forgo making hostile statements.  In this case, he could do useful work in 
our society.  In the course of the conversation, to have him sign an appropriate 
undertaking.

	3.	The next measure could be to fire SAKHAROV from his job at the 
Lebedev Physics Institute (FIAN), where he holds the position of a senior scientist.

	4.	If SAKHAROV still continues his hostile activity after that, to direct 
Comrade R.A. RUDENKO to summon SAKHAROV for a second time to the Office of 
the Procurator General of the USSR and tell him that he is being charged under article 
190.1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR.  The article states:
	“Systematic oral dissemination of fabrication, known to be false, that defame the 
Soviet state and social system, or, the fabrication and dissemination, in written, printed, 
or other forms, of works with such content -- is punished by deprivation of freedom for 
up to three years, or by corrective labor for up to one year, or by fine of up to one hundred 
rubles.”
	The Office of the Procurator General of the USSR should be instructed to speed 
up the investigation of the criminal case against SAKHAROV in an accelerated fashion, 
so that the case can be quickly heard by the Supreme Court of the RSFSR.  The 
punishment meted out to SAKHAROV could be exile to one of the special regimen cities 
of our country, where he would be given a job and a comfortable apartment.  The terms of 
his exile must preclude contacts with foreigners and with the people presently 
surrounding him.
	In pronouncing the sentence, the Supreme Court of the RSFSR should petition the 
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to revoke SAKHAROV’s title of a three 
times Hero of Socialist Labor and his government awards, and the Council of Ministers 
of the USSR to revoke his Lenin and State Prizes.

	5.	The Commission deems it necessary also to revoke SAKHAROV’s title of 
an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, but to do it later, after the 
government’s measures in regard to SAKHAROV have been taken.
	Together with this, to direct the Department of Science of the Central Committee 
to conduct, together with the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, further 
steps in unmasking before the scientific community SAKHAROV’s criminal behavior.

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	It should be kept in mind that implementation of the proposed measures may 
cause certain political problems.
	This action will lead to vigorous anti-Soviet outcries in the West, and may be met 
with less than full understanding by some fraternal parties.  It also requires additional 
explanations inside the country.
	However, in the final count, measures in regard to the said individuals will be 
understood correctly and will not influence the implementation of major political 
initiatives of the Soviet state.  As to the long range, effect on foreign affairs, the firmness 
displayed on these issues should have a positive effect by demonstrating yet again that 
any hopes to win ideological concessions from the Soviet Union are groundless.
	At the same time, in order to create more favorable conditions for implementation 
of the proposed measures and to achieve a correct understanding of our measures by the 
public, it is necessary to:

	1.	Have departments of the Central Committee of the CPSU prepare 
information on SAKHAROV and SOLZHENITSYN for the leaders of socialist countries, 
for certain fraternal parties, and for some international organizations, together with an 
explanation of our measures and of our position on this question.  They should also 
ensure that appropriate instructions are given to groups and delegations going abroad.

	2.	Direct the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR and the Committee for 
State Security of the Council of Ministers of the USSR to prepare and submit to the 
Central Committee of the CPSU proposals on directives to be given to heads of Soviet 
establishments abroad in connection with the hostile activity of SAKHAROV and 
SOLZHENITSYN, for the purpose of arming Soviet foreign representatives with material 
necessary for active work on unmasking any anti-Soviet hullabaloo.

	3.	It would be expedient to intensify propaganda in our press directed at 
explaining the policies of the CPSU and the Soviet government, the experience of 
building the Communist society, and the essence of democratic transformations in the 
USSR.  At the same time, to be more decisive in unmasking slander of our system and of 
Marxist ideology.  In particular, we recognize the necessity to publish, in the near future, 
in the journal Kommunist and in the newspaper Pravda, comprehensive articles, in which 
the political speculations of SAKHAROV and SOLZHENITSYN will be unmasked.
	To commission TASS, Novosti, and the State Committee on Television and Radio 
to prepare material showing the political face of SAKHAROV and SOLZHENITSYN 
and the character of their criminal activity, and explaining our position on these 
questions.

	4.	Have the Committee for State Security of the Council of Ministers of the 
USSR transmit, on the regular basis, to the appropriate agencies, for use in propaganda 
and counter-propaganda actions, documentary material unmasking the instigation by the 
special services of imperialist countries of anti-Soviet campaigns of various kinds and the 
links with these services of renegades like SOLZHENITSYN and SAKHAROV.  At the 
same time, to intensify the work among those around SAKHAROV directed at making it 
a healthier environment and preventing further grouping around him of individuals 
adhering to hostile positions.  To act more vigorously to keep foreign correspondents 
away from SAKHAROV and to implement a number of other operational measures.
								A. KOSYGIN
								M. SUSLOV
								A. SHELEPIN
								V. KUZNETSOV
								M. KELDYSH
								V. CHEBRIKOV
								R. RUDENKO
September “  ”, 1973
								Top Secret		
								D r a f t 
RESOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CPSU
On the question on SAKHAROV and SOLZHENITSYN
	To agree with recommendations regarding this question presented in the report by 
Comrades KOSYGIN, SUSLOV, SHELEPIN, KUZNETSOV, KELDYSH, 
CHEBRIKOV, and RUDENKO.

SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE