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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.
“Siberia”2 pages
Routes lacatzions SECRET Laascriptions 45. Isiplanation to Diagnta No. Kiev to Vienna (by air) Thirteen minutes by air fres Kiev airport in the direction of Vienna. Probable co aeAlinatest 50.10 X 30.30 Plying at the approximate altitwle or 9s00 notegy mkt speed of 850 km per hour, the source observed through sparse white clouds en airport with approximately ten airplanes, appearing like a U-2 type, ling, albs fuselage and Wigs =MOW vine of vide span, possibly glidows. The airport vas on the flight line Mei Kiev to Vienna, thirteen minutes after take-off. The plazas had just crossed the Dnieper River (wide, spreading out with sand islaals and meandering). The source observed the airport about 10 miles to the mast of the Dnieper. Visibility was poor; no isleattl4ing narks Vele visible; no activity vas discerned. ilurroundiag area was diasely Pc guleixtd with villages and townships all around, thou" no large tom was observed in the area. SECRET
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