U.S. THINKS SOVIET HOLDS 2 TOURISTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200600069-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: October 7, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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HOLDS 2 TOURISTS
S. THINKS SOYIE'
for Taking Photrp~is
Men Are Being Deltaine
State Department Believe
at she believed both her hus-j
p from jJ Nort~hcraft ctuca-
nnl "r,'ur ri f Philad l
hi~
p
tFl~und.~
mexican- tou'r's s, `hu't y e
*as t ~e
en, om, o of whom
tad .majored in Rusian studies
n co ge, were reported to have
?ente a car for their trip:
' hrough the SO iet Union.
nett, 26 years old, of Bath,
Maine, and Mark Kaminsky, 28,
of Jefferson Township, Cass
County, Mich.
They entered the Soviet Union
from Finladn on July 27. They
had been scheduled to leave the
Soviet Union about Aug. 25 at
Chop, where the Soviet, Hun-
garian and Czechoslovak bor
ders converge.
Repeated inquiries by the:
United States Embassy in Mos-1
cow during the last month have
brought replies frdm Intourist,
the official Soviet travel agency,
and' the Soviet Foreign Ministry
that the whereabouts of the,
two men was' not known.
The State Department report
ed tooa. that it had been in-
an Anierican tourist
t1 segn llr Haminsky
on in the Tntourist Ho-
t z orocl, a Soviet border
con int. twenty miles i;
no, op. the tourist, not,
identi a v the State Depart-'
ment, e teat that Mr. Kamin-
sky had 'stated he was under
detention for having taken pho-
toggr~aphs.'The State petaartment made
it clear that if believed the two
men were still in the Soviet
'Union and that the Soviet Gov-
ernm:ent knew their where-
abouts.
"It is quite clear that the two
Americans cannot be missing in
the Soviet Union without the
nowledge of the Soviet Gov-
ernmeht." Francis W. Tully Jr.,
a State Department spokesman.
said.
The detention of the men
would'te' the latest: in a series
of axrrests this summer of
mericaa'tourists in the Soviet
pion on_ charges of taking
hotoratlfss illegally for es io
charges have been
just, apparen y are being held
by Soviet authorities for hav-
Iing taken photographs, the
!State Department said today.
The two are Harvey C. Ben-
vyuvntr rv, rii x
. ., , - Y'~en was received on Sept. 6
est ,to Tke Xis Yorri LYtltes._ en .-Mrs. Bennett got a pii4t-
.. ai - 'd am o.r usband. The
Two Ameiic tour's s miss' card Was
da ed iQ dwasI
in the SovieUnion singe dug stillra"rkd at 1nriltSa
town
-
border.
Mr. Bennett wrote that he
had had auto tz?ouble.but planned
to leave the Soviet Union: at'l
Chop in about six days.
CPYRGHT