Carbon copy of an autograph letter signed : "Dialectic Dementia" [Viet Nam], to "Alicia," [1967 Jan. 5].

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Carbon copy of an autograph letter signed : "Dialectic Dementia" [Viet Nam], to "Alicia," [1967 Jan. 5].

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Commenting on a piece from a Soviet youth newspaper in which he was accused of being "an accomplice in a murder because I rode in a U.S. helicopter during a mission in Vietnam....It creates a new crime--guilt by observation;" suggesting that "one or more good Russian writers, good but honest observers.....(I know at least a dozen such men personally)---I beg that some of these men be sent as observers to South Vietnam;" suggesting that in return, he would like to be invited to observe in North Vietnam "so that I can observe the other side. Turnabout is fair play;" adding "I know very well that you will see this letter, Komsomolskaya Pravda, but I'll bet 10-1 you will not pass it on to your readers. They must continue to think of me as a murderer--because you have said it so. It is truly a dialectic dementia."

1 item (2 p.) ; 31.1 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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