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This CIA file, whose date is not given, contains a secret debriefing report on a 1960 tourist trip to the Soviet Union. The traveler, a Library of Congress employee, went to Moscow, Kiev and Lviv in September 1960. The report includes an operational diary, biographical information on contacts, material on intelligence requirements, and transcripts of Ukrainian Radio interviews. The briefer's comments call the operation successful and say the traveler detected Soviet surveillance. The document does not discuss UFOs.
SECO DISR1101ING OF TIMM STSFSBN wirtra ABM I Operational Diary bly trip to the Soviet Union, 'which lasted from 3 Setpteriber to 21 September 1960, was arraniptd by Mettpintatr Associates, 1603 16th Street NAL, Washington, D« C. The it4nerary included *saws Iiiriv/ Usbgor:do and Kiev. 14r BOAC plate, latch vas scheduled to leave for &lime from International Airport in Nov York ea At September at 1300 hours, took off one hour later and landed in London on 3 Ovtember at 0900 hours. I missed my connection with the Soviet plane t latch left twenty minutes before Our ehrriV*3.. Instead, I took a plane to Paris at 1200 hours and from Paris via Air Franca to Moscow * leaving about 1330 hours. On the way we stopped for twenty minutes in liareetto Poland, at about 1630 hours and arrived in Moscow at WOO hours. The passengers on the trench plane included trench tourist* to Mincow, three or four Americans going to blosear, and two ntles ping to Warsaw. There vtwe also some MUMS, probably Commaist dalsgetes, flying to Nosecor. Only about bat of the seats on the plane were filled. The plane did not land at the beam Airfield In Wow but on another. We were net by only one girl treat the Soviet Airlines end two unifbased border guards. The passengers bad to produce their pass. ports and them proceed to the terminal building, "here officials began to easealli. First came at Intottriet official * a yang man about thirty sears of age. Se bad a passenger list with him and checked the Intourist passe:tsars and exchanged. currency. The border verde also arrived and proceeded with pstoport checking. There mire taro officers. The/ had lists on hand and cOMparet the visit in the peeePerte with their lists. They stomped the passports and gyre thm beak to the $4100/11Prse The Vti*. Matra WS very preagot end lasted Just a few minutest for **di passenger. The =stein ventral vas 0.11$410 varf praipt. There ens no luggage *control whatsoever * Zech passenger woe asked to fill out a declaration with 4ptestieas about carrying such items as weapons, 'otics, artielss for sale, how such money he carried * and so forth. There were no instantiate to itemise the contents of the luggage and no questions as to the quantity of luggage. The luggage SECRET
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.