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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.
Question: Answer: Question: Answer: Question: Answer: SECRET -80 - Note: I purposely went into this to try to avoid more emphatic issues for the sake of saving the interviewer some discomfort. Very well about the girls, but tell us something more about the progress and the people. What did you observe about their life? In the cities they live better, but in the country not so well. How do you know that? I have had conversations with farmers, peasants, and workers. And they told you that? Yes, and I must add that in the cities I noticed some shortages. For example, in Lviv I noticed long queues for butter and meat, but in Kiev _I did not see these shortages. Note: About this time I made the remark that I had noticed that a campaign was being conducted to catch u p with America. I said that we all are very happy about it and that we believe that the material standard will rise quickly. I also said that I would be even happier if they would try catching up with America in the realm of freedom. my interviewer was very much aroused by this. Question: How can you say such things as we do not have freedom? Please give some examples. Answer: First, we can buy your papers and publications in our bookstores and at our newsstands, but our papers and publications are not allowed for the public here. Second, we listen without restrictions to your radio broadcasts, but our radio broadcasts are jammed by you. Third, • our tourists go en masse to the Soviet Union, and ten thousand, I .guess, have already come from America this year. We should like for the amount of your tourists to match the amount of ours.' Question: How do you like our system of education? You know that in our country the people study without paying. In your country the students probably have to pay for their education, so that only the rich ones can afford it. Answer: . Yes, I noticed that in the schools here many young people attend and that is a positive thing. However, I also noticed that the emphasis here is on physical and technical sciences, that social sciences are neglected. Question: How come? What do you mean, "neglected"? 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.