at a meeting of the state department senior staff with john's senior staff with john foster dulles, he was told quote, the communist treatment of pasternak was one of the worst blunders. it is on par in terms of embarrassment and damage to them with the brutality and hungary. by july 1959 and eight months after the nobel crisis, about 9,000 miniature copies had been have been printed in washington. and the printing was attributed to a fictitious publishing house in paris. a russian ÉmigrÉ group in germany essentially said it was behind the printing. and that secret basically held until now as it was wisely believed the miniature edition was in fact the work of ÉmigrÉs. the book was passed out, quote by agent that had contacts with soviet officials and tourists in the west. 2,000 copies were set aside for dissemination to the soviet and other communist students at the world festival of youth and students for peace and friendship which was held in vienna in late july and early august of 1959. it was the first such youth festival held outside of the soviet bloc and it attracted thousands