Secial relations with Soviet and Soviet orbit officialdom

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP65-00756R000600040020-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: January 13, 1956
• Content Type: DISP

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Social relations with ;'Sov et and Soviet orbit officialdom
The following is the Embassy's report for December 1955:
In a departure from previous practice the Soviet Embassy this
year included members of the American Embassy of various ranks on
their mailin list for "Season's Greetings" cards. As in previous
years top officials in the Soviet Embassy sent these to their
opposite numbers in the American Embassy,, This year, however, each
Russian apparently sent cards to any member of the Embassy known
personally to himc, The impression of those Americans who received
cards was that even the most casual acquaintanceship with- a Soviet
official was the occasion for a greeting card. Naturally, these
cards made no mention of Christmas, but merely sent greetings, or
wished the, recipient a "prosperous" New Year. Some Norwegians
have reported receiving bottles of vodka on the occasion of the
New Year, but no American seems to have been thus honored.
Other than this contacts between Soviet and American officials
in Oslo continue to to official and sporadic.
For the Ambassador:
W. Stratton Anderson
First Secretary of Embas
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Dept.'s CA-6473, March 2,$9 1955- Embdes, 325, Dec. 9p 1955