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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.
SECRET -77- Question: What about negative things? Answer: I do not share your views about your political structure. You have much less freedom than we have. Question: But wait a minute, Mr. 0. Specifically, what do you mean "less freedom?" Answer: For example, I was limited to stay in Lviv only for-five days, and we in America do not have such limitations. I could not go to other cities such as Stryi. Furthermore, Soviet papers are available in New York. You can buy them in stores and see them in libraries. Here you do not have foreign papers available to anybody. Question: You live in the capitalist system, and.you have exploitation by the monopolies. Is that not so? Answer: It is not so as your press reports it. The monopolies are under the control of the federal laws, and there is a tendency to limit monopolies. America exports only 4 per cent of its products and the market for its industry is mainly in the United States. Question: And which system is going to win? Answer: God knows. I think that after a while the socialist and capitalist systems will come closer together and that there will be some kind of a compromise. Your system will come closer to our system and will become more free economically and politically. Question: But in our country all people support the communist system, and nobody wants to return to capitalism and czarism. Answer: •You are right, but you present only two alternatives: communism and czarism. I think that we could have a third alternative: a social system with more freedom in the political and economic aspects. Question: In spite of all, we believe in the victory of communism. Answer: Because you are dogmatists. You have a dogma, but we do not have such an all embracing doctrine which gives the answer to all the questions. We have all kinds of philosophy which try to give the solution to different questions. We are seeking.different ways of solution, and we do not pretend to have absolute truth in this respect. Question : So that means that you do not know where you are going. 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.