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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
SECRET of the ore po3iticsl emigraUen to the West. Scam eeked me if X corusitiered that grow a political emigration, and I sad yes, adding OM Leen mu also a political salve. ibur410 03.110 minted to know ohm sor book one going to he pUbliethed sal asked me to sone. it to him vben it appears. San he eaked obo RCM vie. I egolained that MAO ins a youngstudent of ermemmice oho orate a Mu* on the Ukraine in the limited liations. ileum said that he had amed the bra*. balm the convene:4ton ibutraeiti assistant asked me if I had ow inaily in the Western Ukraine, to thinh I revile& that I might have some distant restive); but that it was impoireihle to visit them be mum the Soviets lona not give permission to visit vtUages• At the end of imir couversation the professor asked ne not to target them in the amine in the tolAule. asked me to send bin book end my oar study and to visit him again then I cam to Kiev. VI. Meting with Ukrainian Iloviet Writers00 K., 80. in the Conterenee Row of the Won of tirreLiall Soviet (triter!: in Kiev, depteraber 3,960: IL asked ohoI 'es, there I was true, that the palms.of rgf visit Mgt What my immersion of the Wren* warm.Ro mentioned that be bed visited the lAbrany of Congress & few months previou4y, end he seemed to lam been verY Mob 11211WOSSedp Platiggaisar, a* be oliPlAtieed to his 4034034paUg s berecum many of his books were in the Library' of Congress.. lie received a very nice reeeption. After this introductory note I mode a deeere• eiletevolt that the likrainian anigration follow mute in the Ukraine tor reading Soviet nerrempers and pibitioations end that the illuminism &Weal moo per. totted by the appearance of an article •17, /MOW in sitollyienalca Ulumirap" promoting the intensifisrAinn of Russifteadden of the tkreine. also mentioned that because there vas not & reply to KW/2MM article, it ma esausel that this one the policy of the pextr0 L. replied Oat this article; vas not oorth statinaing, that it oas only on Individual's view, that they hod given him a geed reply, and that they had protested. H. added that *WNW did not represent evrthateg of tropertenee, that he La not In safvf important position * er4 that no attention shoat be pa to him. Se also WA * Not Woe settled the amount with Ma.* att said that the vere mow pialatestete in the amine Itho repreeente4 differ- eat view, and one of them use RRAITTOOV. 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.