Documents / FOIA release
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.
“Siberia”2 pages
SECRET -81- Answer: You profess only one ideology. You have only one p11-embracing doctrine which you believe gives the answer and solution to all the problems. We are engaged in a broad and expansive search for new solutions of problems which the present time places before us. Americans emphasize the great development of economic studies in the West, and this discipline is neglected in your country to the extent that even your communists have recognized this fact recently and have asked for more studies in the field of the so-called capitalist economics. We have also made great progress in the study of sociology and psychology. Question: But why is it that in your schools you have to pay for education? Answer: Question: Answer: Question: Answer: We pay only for college education. Primary and secondary education is without pay. We have a different system of education, and we do not have the Ministry of Education. Our federal government does not mix or intervene in our educational system. We have different school systems in different states. Our universities, each one of theni, is a private institution of itself which raises its own funds and developes its own system of education for instruction. If an individual does not like the system of one university, he is free to go to another Or to pick a college to his liking. And when the owner of a university decides to closethe school, then the students will be out on the street. That is not so. We do not have owners of universities. There are boards of. trustees and professors who are interested in the existance of their institution. In America we have over a thousand colleges, so that even if one of them is closed for some reason, it is still possible for all interested in education to have one. Many of our students work during the day and study at night. I myself am one of these. I work in the Library of Congress and study at night. Our students are convinced that once the federal government is the sole source of funds for the universities, the government is then controlling the educational system. Once the government provides the money, it will also provide the requirements. And what government in the world takes more care of the children than ours? We have a different attitude and our thinking is different. We leave the initiative to the individual , and we are convinced that he is able to take Care of himself and to solve his own problems without the control of the central government. Only in such cases when individnbls or communities are not able or do not have the possibility of solving their own problems does the central government give a helping hand. This is our notion of freedom. 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.