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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 -82- Question: How do Ukrainians live in America? Tell us something about it. Answer: They are pretty well organized. They publish Ukrainian literature. The number of university professors of Ukrainian decent is increasing, and this trend has been growing since the mass political emigration after World War II. Question: Oh, but I know that there are many nationalist bandits who committed crimes here. Answer: Excuse me, but you cannot talk in that way about Ukrainians even when they are nationalists and have different attitudes or convictions from you. If they are bandits, they should be named and brought to . courts of justice. Could you, for example, call Professor SHEVELOV, aka SHEREKH, a former professor of Kharkov University and at the present time a professor at Columbia University in New York, a bandit? Question: I do not think that I consider SHEVELOV a bandit. I did not have . him in mind. Answer: Do you think that OSMACHKA, a Ukrainian poet who was imprisoned, deported, and almost by a miracle escaped, could be called a bandit because he does not share your views? Question: (The interviewer took an evasive attitude.) No, I did not have such people in mind. I was thinking about those who killed people including women for supporting the Soviet government. We should leave this subject. This will not be transcribed and broadcasted. And what is your impression of the people here? Isn't it true that they are gay and full of life? Did you notice this? Answer: Yes, I noticed this, particularly among the youth. This is a prerogative of the youth, who always have a hope for the better future, and particularly the students who are not in everyday life involved in the industry and who live in the sphere of their leaders. Question: Finally what else could you tell the Ukrainians of Kiev? Answer: I want to convey my personal greetings and the greetings of the Ukrainians in America, and I want to wish them success in their work. The interviewer turned off the tape recorder. He thanked me for the • opportunity of interviewing me. I also expressed my thanks and remarked that I did not consider myself such a popular individual as to be interviewed. I SECRET
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.