Establish contact with our friends’ person, either through your person or, if possible, directly. A meeting place has been set for the 19th and a backup for 21 December near the “Agora” movie theater, at the main entrance from the square, at 16:00. Our friends’ man will be smoking a pipe and holding the magazine Berlin-Rome-Tokyo. He will be holding a brown briefcase and will be dressed entirely in brown; a brown cane, hat, suit, and gloves. Your person coming to the meeting should be holding the same magazine, Berlin-Rome-Tokyo, and should have in his mouth a pipe that he is not smoking. Your person will ask for a match from our friends’ person; he will first take out a lighter that has no gasoline and then matches. Our friends’ man will ask your man if he knows what film is playing at the “Metropol” movie theater. He will get the answer: “La femme.” 85

85 RGASPI, f. 495, op. 184, d. 5, outgoing 1941 to France, coded dispatch of 14 December 1941, ms.; Fridrikh Firsov, “Die Komintern—Auβenpolitisches Instrument des Stalin’schen Regimes,” Mittelweg 36, no. 1 (2010): 88–89.