SOVIET RELEASES TWO U.S. TOURISTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200600062-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: October 15, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

O CT 1 5 1960
Approved For Release 2000/06/13 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000200600062-2
SOVIET RELEASES
TWO U. S. TOURISTS
State Department, Says Men
Were Accused of Having
Entered Banned Zone `CPYRGHT
By E. W. KENWORTHY partment, the embassy had "ex-
Special to The New York Times. ressed concern" over the fact
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14-Tw 'that the Soviet Government had
ignored repeated inquiries about
municado for seven weeks b he two men, "despite the fact
Soviet authorities, have --bee hat it had knowledge of their
released and expelled from th hereabouts . at least since
Soviet Union the State Depart ug. 25."
ment said today. State Department officials
The two are Harvey C B , aid that a forma
kgjtyvvid
n h~tt
years old, o e made
ailC ne and 1 "ark I Kaminsky "'rities- but that
that the So'
had inform
2F
Embassy today . r
of the two to
der crossing o
on the Soviet-
tier,
thm
either yesterday ,o
hiitiist? he opportunity to talk with the
d State, erk after their return to this
yak fran- jo4 meted the Soviet Union
In inforininbassy o rontier crossing point of Chop
the expulsiot}4m t e Soviet, For- tear the convergence of the
ei 'n Ministry said that thg tw zeal, Hungarian and Soviet
.11 Americans' had been? etained orders about Au 25.
since Aug. 25, "when? they de 4 On Sept. 8, the Mate Depart-
parted from their ermitted dent received a telegram from
,itinerary and deliberately pone r. Bennett's wife stating that
trated a significant distant er"" last communication from
Into a forbidden border zone.' sband was a letter from
Notes on Military Obleetived tnnifrsa, dated Aug. 19, in
ih he said that they had had
The Soviet authorities, also ropb but planned to
asserted,. the embassy reported, isa hrough Chop in about six
that films and notebooks taken ay ..
from Mr. Kaminsky had "showed A series of inquiries by the.
that he had byb been violating iin- piled States Embassy brought
Soviet laws es from Intourist, the of-
formation on military objet ieial Soviet travel agency, that
tives." he whereabouts of the men was
As a consequence, the Soviet nknown
Foreign Ministry said, Mr. Ka- ------
minsky had been accused of
violating Article 2 of the Soviet
law on state crimes, turned over
to a court, and expelled along
with Mr. Bennett from the
Soviet Union.
Approved For Release 2000/06/13 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000200600062-2