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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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  • p. 59 …At the same Use, In Siberia a German group of sixty thousaml —end even some smiler…
Vain to the tellish in exthange tor sashinery. Be tit= defended
Stalin, owing that Stalin von the war end that only because or him
was the Soviet Wen litaVagt4
He also resarked that I bed probably heard about Khrusiutherts
speech denouncing Statin. He thought this eseeeh use out of tosto
and that it we very bed tamers to say that Stalin was not a strategist
and no eau
In the meantime we loft the restaurant and Insitkedin the streets.
We had heil a few drinks. The converestica touched the Thum Weir.
She Russian said that Timm was a traitor rad a Ukrainian. I eaplained
that Thaw was a Rosie* genera Ito surrendared to the Oeivrens with
his unite at the *sew taunt awl that labile durilig his political
eotivity in dermany• he was easiest arairdan national aspirations. At
this time a rdlitia men walked over to us. I eggroached hint M g said*
"toll us Aeon * was WNW a Russian or a Ukrainiant" The militia
was did not ray anything and leaked refer. itr this time it wee late*
so we parted.
SW insides* wee the eel' time / net a ocavincol Stalinist. He
vas notvary vell..to-do, Just ft cram wan t but I telt that he spoke
out et deep conviction.
XV31. At O. litrathien Woe in isiv,. SepteXhar 1960:
I meet there a student* elout twentipois yeses old. He expressed
the view that the Ukrainiens Amid not meat to be liberated tw w-
ane. They should rely oar on thereelves. He told Tee that at his
institute there are often diseussions arena the students on political
topics conoarcinei the situation in the Uktrotae.
XVZII• latansation frac Other Zodividualss
• The policy at the Soviets, in Vestal* Ukraine is one devised on the
lime of divide and rule. Jeolow is beteg mrtured even toward those
who receive packages trees Marisa and Osnada. there are meny inibraers
in oath village.
There we a war scare after the 114 incident.
The oconacis sithation in the villagesbee worsened during the
last year. People are &sired to larksore and the food eittadiion has
deteriorated.. She ease could be said 004 Indy', *are sums for tat
and neat are ea everyday curcurrence.
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