These have been given to us by xxx who request they be returned 'in due course'." It says: "Forwarded herewith are two rolls of film which are the negatives of the photocopy of Dr Zhivago by Pasternak. Other possibilities include translators, as well as Feltrinelli, who brought out the first foreign edition of Doctor Zhivago in Italy that November.Ī CIA memo, dated 2 January 1958, reveals that MI6 delivered a copy of the original 433-page typed manuscript to American intelligence. After returning from Moscow Berlin also gave copies to Pasternak's sisters living in Oxford. Berlin, a native Russian speaker with extensive British diplomatic contacts, is one possible source, though he opposed the novel's early publication. It is unclear if someone from Pasternak's inner circle gave the manuscript to British intelligence to copy or if MI6 purloined it without the owner's consent.
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