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The Occupation Fund Documents: Additional Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2018

Charles  and
Barbara Jelavich
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In the December 1954 issue of The American Slavic and East European Review Paul W. Blackstock in an article entitled “The Occupation Fund Documents: a Reassessment of ‘a Crude and Ignorant Forgery’ ” replied to the present authors’ article, “The Occupation Fund Documents: a Diplomatic Forgery.” In his own words, Mr. Blackstock “examined and evaluated” the documents “as they might have been assessed by an intelligence analyst looking at them for the first time when the collection was acquired.” He also compared them with the Soviet publication, Adventures of Russian Tsarism in Bulgaria? Throughout his article he has applied the methods employed by government agencies to test the authenticity of contemporary documents of doubtful origin.

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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , October 1955 , pp. 390 - 401
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1955

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1 “The Occupation Fund Documents: a Diplomatic Forgery,” American Slavic and East European Review, XII, No. 3 (October, 1953), 343-49.

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