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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 -78- Answer: We know very well, but no one individual and no one philosophical Concept could give answers to all thecomplicated questions of life, and the life gets more and more complicated. No system gives an exhaustive answer to all the questions. Question: We went very far in our discussions. Tell us please, what are your plans for the future:- Answer: I will go to Kiev and from there to Vienna and fly-back home. Question: And finally, what do you have to say to the Ukrainians in Lviv? Answer: I am very happy that I had the opportunity to visit Lviv and to see how the Ukrainians live here. I extend my personal greetings and those from all the Ukrainians in America to the Ukrainains in Lviv. I wish them success in their work. Question: Thank you, Mr. 0. After stopping the machine, he said that we did this interview very well, anclit was very good that we had had such a nice talk and that he had not expected that it would turn out so profitable. I asked that I be informed about the time and date of the broadcast so that I would have a chance to listen to it. He promised with pleasure. He said that he thought this interview would be broad- cast in a couple of days and that he would inform the Intourist and the Intourist would inform me in Kiev about the date and time. He said that the interview would need a little editing. I asked him if I could get a copy of the tape, which would be a nice souvenir for me. He promised to send it out to me and ask for my address in Washington, which I gave to him. He then asked if I had some American postal stamps. I said that I did not, but I showed him some post cards from New York. He selected, three, thanked me for them, said he was in a hurry, and left. The whole interview and conversation lasted one hour, from ten to eleven o'clock in the morning. 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.