TAKE SOME SPIES, BENNY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300170011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2003
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 10, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

TAKE SOME SPIES, $E~IN F
Benny Goodman and his famous jazz orchestra are
among the U. S. cultural groups scheduled. to tour Soviet jjRussia this year under a culture-exchange agreement just 1
concluded between Washington
and Moscow:
The alleged cultural delights
that. Americans are to get from
Russia include the Bolsboi The-
atre Ballet and the Ukrainian
Dance Ensemble.
We can't congratulate Benny
Goodman and his-Music-makers.
Rather, we, pity them regarding
their planned pilgrimage among
the punk botels, bad food, inferior
liquor, cockroaches, and- rats of
the Soviet Union.. }
We. an suggest, though; a Y a
patriotic job which"they, ugit to
perform. Mr. Goodman should arrange wi l the, tral
Intelligence Agency to sneak a goodly collec f n of apabi 1
spies into his yroup of strolling musicians, W'ick'
p wh'atri
.information they. can in -Russia;
It's notorious that Russian cultural :u s coming to
the United States are loaded with Soviets es Why Jet 4
Khrushchev aut-general Kennedy in this sector of 'the_'
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