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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.
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SECRET 71. as an Inferiority complex. They said that to in the Most lou gh at then beeause they are "MMthikein but they are going to prove that this is not so. Their sciences are growing, and finally, they are Moving to the West what they really are. We touched on the 04 ineldeat, and they wanted to know the reason for it. They said that eUth tithing could bring shout a war, and they, as military men, kneor What war nantrt. I replied that the reason for this was the secrecy which surrounds the Soviet Union end gave them the exempla of Hitter, who surprised the world, the Soviet Wee included, hY starting a war. We in America do not malt such a thing as this to happen again, and it de not vent it to happen to us as it happened to the Soviet Union in 1941, at which time the German tanks were in the vicinity of Moscow. They replied that the Soviet Union is not and *ever was an %groom', to which I reworked that I knew that Unread the people did not want a, leer but that ate cannot be so sure about the government. Another Soviet colonel in civilian cloths joined us. MO was probably retired. Most of the time be just listened and did not participate Le the conversation. We continued the conversation about the Use, and they commented, "How would Americans feel !fallow/et plane weld fly over America?" r replied that in the rivet place, this is not necessary because the Soviets have mew spies it the WOirt„ In. eluding America. Secondly, most of the things which are secret in the Soviet Whim are not secret in America, that is, mars in Aortaa write about these thinse, about military teats, about the locstion and launching of rockets, and often the launching of rockets is witnessed br correspond. eats and reporters. Therefore, a rettOZWAillikalee elan* over Merles is not necessary tor the Soviet Won. They 44W that they could not expect much in this direction and said that we should disarm. r Garold, but added that controls are neeesevr. Sere they introduced en official Khrushchev line, saying that first an agreement on disarmament should be node and thencontrols should be dis- cussed. r wive them the following example: "You sit here with your hands on the table, and I know that you have nothing in them. I join yot with one hand behind my back, and you de not know*** r have taws hand behind Sy back.' After that example they agreed that we should have disarmament and controls at the same time. I OA that is still not • eemiSh become ehee vs *arse an disarmament, we should agree on controls, and experts in this field should mutually agree on the kind and amount of controls. There should be a mutual assertion that while disarmiag, sootrol contusions on both sides would supervise such disanameent, so that we innal be antosEWremwminced that our hands are clean. They Saw that r was right and Aid not vent to continue the discussion in this direetion. 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.