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a. YAREMKO is a naturalized Aeerican citizen of
Ukrainian birth, a lawyer b y profession. (FYI: Accord-
ing to an ODENVY report dated 28 May 1965„ he was born
3 February.1.911 in Wykoty„ near Lvov, and naturalized
on 20 December 1950 in New York; he was divorced from
his first wife; on 7 December 1953 in Chicago, he
eel-Tied Izolde N. Neat • BURTNIEKS who was born 27 July
1923 in Liepja„ Latvia; a daughter, Christine, was born
to them on 22 Actober 1954 in Chicago.)
b. YAREMIO visited the Soviet Union in the sumo r
of 1963 to negotiate for imports of Ukrainian obiects
d'art for sale in his Chicago stere, YEVSHAN VILLA*
He told Al2 on his reture from the Soviet Union in 1963 that
his business trip had been arranged in advance through
commercial •contacts with a member of the Soviet mission in
New York and by Meshdunarednaya Kniga of Moscow. He said
his visa had been given to him by I., KYZIA, who was with
the Soviet Ukrainian Delegation at the United Nations at
that tine, because YAREMKO refused to apply for his
Ukrainian visa through Moscow but insisted on negotiating
with Kiev via the Soviet Ukrainian Mission in New York,
c. YAREMKO also told A/2 at that tine that he talked
')head of the Soviet Ukrainian Committee for Cultural Contacts
with, among many ether Soviets, Kateryna KOLOSOVA c_
with Foreign Countries, and that on his return he met with
Luke F. PALAMARCHUX, the then Ukrainian Minister of Foreign
Affairs, who was with the Soviet Ukrainian Delegation at the
United Nations in New York. YAREMKO said that KOLOSOVA had
received him in her office to Kiev. She told him Soviet
Ukrainians were very much interested in having Ukrainian
emigres visit in the Ukraine and that everyone was welcome.
the past would be forgotten.
d. YAREMKO reportedly made other trips to the Soviet
Union after 1963. In June of 1965 he called on an AECASSOWARY
contact in New York. He said that he had just come from the
Ukrainian Mission where he had net with representatives of
the Ukrainian Delegation at the U, N. He criticized the
AECASSOWARY contact for lack of enthusiasm in developing
contacts with Soviet Ukrainians and encouraged the contact
to visit the Ukraine. He also said that he personally was
leaving for Kiev, Lvov and Moscow on business on 10 June
1965 and that he planned to talk with the "Representative
for Ukrainian Art" at the Ministry of Foreign Trade in
Moscow. YAREMKO suggested that the AECASSOWARY contact
help him in forming a chartered association for cultural
contactswith the Ukraine, and said that he had been assured
by Soviet Ukrainian writers and ertists that they would be
permitted and happy to come to the West if invited by such
an "official association."
• In early November 1965, YAREMKO called on A/2 and told
his he had visited the Soviet Union for nine days in June..July
1965. He brought back with him a speech which reportedly
had been delivered by writer Ivan MUSA to the Ukrainian
Union of Writers in Kiev at a celebration dedicated to the
memory of Vann* SYMONENKO. (FYI only: He left a copy of the
speech with A/2 * The speech is nationalist le content. Itwas reported by another AECASSOWARY contact thst friends of
MUSA guarded his hone for about 2 weeks following the
speech because they feared he would be arrested. Although
the fact that MUSA node the speech is being discussed in
Ukrainian emigre circles. Al2 has refrained from publicizing
this speech in the West at least for the tine being, because
he suspects that MEW= was asked by Soviet authorities to
give the speech to An to seek what use would be made of it.
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