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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.
Stag Interview with Representative of the Ukrainian Radio in Kiev, Yuryi Olexandrovych KALINOVSKYI (See Annex 2) 20 September 1960 Shortly after I agreed by telephone to give him the interview, he came to my room carrying a tape recorder. First, we had a preliminary discussion.. He asked me who I was, where I was frOm, and what the purpose of my visit was. I gave him the answers. Step by step, the conversation changed to a debate concerning our understanding of freedom and other similarly controversial subjects. I emphasized to him that I was a so-called progressive Ukrainian and did not share the views officially prevailing in the Soviet Union about the social and political structure in the USSR. He asked me for different kinds of . points in this respect. We touched on the problem of Stalin and the elections in America and in the USSR. He said that in the Soviet Union the people also elect their government, to which I answered with one of the most effective arguments I have learned from previous discussions of this sort. 'I said that .1- it is so that your people in the Soviet Union elect their government, so it must be a fact that the people elected Stalin. I added that in America Stalin would not be possible. He was confused' and did not know what to answer. He looked very unhappy. He did not actuPlly know whether or not he should do this interview with me, and he asked me if I would still do the interview. He probably thought that I would back out, but I answered that I would go through with the interview once I had agreed to it and that I would be very pleased to go along with him. He started the tape recorder and the interview began. Question: Mr. 0, please tell the Ukrainians of Kiev something about yourself, what the purpose of your visit is, and what impressions you have of Kiev. Answer: I came as a tourist with the purpose of doing research for my dissertation on the local organs of Soviet government. I am a student of Georgetown University. I have been to Moscow, Lviv, Uzhgorod, and Kiev. I had an interview at the Rayvykonkom. I . was in the Ukraine , last year and participated in the Vienna Festival, but I wanted once again to see the Ukrainian cities, particularly Kiev. Question: Did you notice any material progress since you last visited Kiev? Answer: Yes, I noticed that the people are somewhat better clothed, but there are still insufficiencies in textiles, and the standard is still far behind that of America. I saw that girls wore better clothes, some in the Western fashion to a degree. I saw girls in . sweaters in the Ukraine. I saw bleached blonds and French twists in Moscow and Lviv, but more in Kiev. -79-- 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.