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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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epproaeh in ay vey. Often the youngxr officer covered his mouth with his hand mldseU emaething to the colonel uhich t did net hear, but they uoulA smile. At one point the colonel took oat his party card from his pocket end aimed it to me. I vented to take it from him sad look at it closer, but he ;mid sot let me. Onee, ehen ve talked *bout discrimination, the younger officer said that he ens ^WA, end that in spite of 160, he hell sehieved his rank. At all tines tering the eon- vereation, I -U4 the feeling that everrsee ems elsjoiring with the exception of ems instance *ea I %OA thole jokei.41Thiere is no Zetviatikve in Pan noda, end Panda in Devestlye4 After I this 4thof avanfoae vas stone4aceA. Then re finelly parted, they said that I vas a bad poleadniet, but a eklUell disputant Igho Ions mush and avers gives one sasver. I added that ve should discuss, but ve should not fight. The colonel said that he earned 5,000 males a month. XV. Conversation in the latent:it Office in Urhgerok, September 1960; At the intouriat office I met a men vho said Irs VISA from the Donbas. lie got involved in NI egityrop discuitsion on lakt plow end so forth. fir said that easog Aneeleen tourists them ewe meow spice. Reeently these was an inciAent in the Mooed area aaaaaraial an asaariaakt aba proposed to a feriae? that the American live with him or give him his Den car in entehenge for secret military inforration, but the termer reported it to the authorities. ZVI. Conversation in the Hotel ukrainain Ki*Vs Septeldier 1960: After swore man* about tarty son old, joined me at my table. Ile van a Rtmoien. We started a eowiersatim. lie said that he bed been in the aro)r during the var and tint be *tutted atterverds in the evemingps to beams a adaing engineer. Ite said he does wit earn much WA corks hard. timerthelms, be is very mush for the Soviatti. le praised Stalin very noeh and fomented that in recent tines Stalin has teen blensts that this is not ri4ento that Stalin was a great ruler, and that only thanks to his hes socidieu been sohieved. I argued with him :Gout the price paid tor those ethievemates the famine* the deportations, ant that Stelth himself said to Clovehill that the aollsetivisatim met bin ten lives, but the Suntan vas not eonvimed. Ss said that this was tot Staline s !Mitt tint the lover echelons of the party insfe tee mew to rut= the plans, and that even $talin cautioned then. I said that Stalin law about the SWAM, but nothing was done to met" the situation. Even tondo aid for the tosine-strieken areas ins refined. Stalin and his associates proclaimed that, there was no fanine chatseever, but Soviet statistics ehov that at that Use of Assiut the Soviet Mien everted 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.