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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.
“Roe”4 pages
SECRET las brought from the Air Franca plane and given directly to the passengers without any delay. The Intourist son called a tasi and told the driver to take no and another American touriata a men about fifty yours old vie* vas going only to Meseta end laningrad, to the hotel Ukraina. The distance from the *inert to the elAy use anproci- aately led kilometers and took vs about as hour to drive. At the hotel porters brought our begioge to the lobby. The lobby wee crowded with travelare, foreign sad Soviet. 14 AO040.4 co-taurelor vas helpless. Nobody cared for him, and be did not know rolrf Unwise cc. *opt linglish. I helped hie to register. At first I vent to the hotel Amager (administrator) and gave him the Travel Bums vendor sad my passport.. lie easiseed no Rom ad on the seventh floor* and es e me one "talon" for the restauant. I itas traveling on the so.melled lonsian" towel arrangement for 416 a day* and the soma did not differ Itheitsocreer tree the 03 arrangement* The only differenee was that the $30- touriets were taken to the higher floors. The activators* bower, did not function yell* the rides vere not szovytht and the passeagere had to wait for long periods at time. Ter those reasons nobody vas gratlaularly homy to get a roam On the vapor floors. Seas time after 2330 hours I went to the hotel restaurant for supper. There I orm my Appertain easpenion sitting at a table with another sea. I joined them and learned that the other man IOW a lassion resident of *sear named inetor man= (see Annex XX and he often ease to the restauroat. We talked in ibeestan. After owner the other /aerie= left, and the dussian and I rosined and talked till closing time at miAnigikt. he proposed to me that we meet *pita the tailoring day * at which time he vould be delighted to haip as vith sightseeing la *meow* I sitteed-, sod he Presised to came to the hotel lobby at 1100 hours. After making this arrangsment, retired to my.roca. rikormanr 1,904 sway After bremut is the hotel resteurant I went to the lotto/rift attic* in the hotel, gave them the trowel voucher, old received "Wane" for elf viols tour lizer also arranged ref travel schedule by plane and train. Tito Intacrist officer', a girt, treated no as if she canted to get rid of me as $oca es poosible, probably because I las a pension tourist and vas not entitled to all the care give* to the higher elites vaseengers. She vas not interested in me is any roe:soot, 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.