Foreign & Commonwealth Office
London SWIA 2AH Telephone: 0171-27019 October
Count Tolstoy
Court Close
Southmoor
nr Abingdon
Berkshire
OX13 5HS
Dear Count Tolstoy,
Thank you for your letter of 8 October. I am sorry that you appear to have misinterpreted my letter to Ms Polanska-Palmer of 20 September. This letter was merely intended to correct Ms Polanska-Palmer's belief that we had said that Ministers of the day are not aware of any evidence of the forcible repatriation of Russian refugees at the end of the Second World war.
Ms Polanska-Palmer had got this misleading impression from reading the "Toronto Sun" article of 12 August. I do not know whether, nor did I tell Mrs Polanska-Palmer, that the "Toronto Sun" article deliberately set out to mislead.
Your last paragraph presumably refers to recent publicity for Soviet espionage activities following the publication of the book 'The Mitrokhin Archive'. Prosecution of anyone accused of spying for the USSR is not a matter for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Yours sincerely,
J L Howgate
Eastern Dept
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