EXCHANGE OF DELEGATIONS, GEOGRAPHY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01156A000100090005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 30, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
= James A. Brazmnell, Chairman of Ad Hoc Committee DATE: 30 January 1958
Exchange of Delegations.
FROM s John Q. Adams, (for L. W. Trueblood) A.M.S.
svsJECT: Exchange of Delegations, Geography
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exchange,! the Soviets will visit places which, outside of most government
1agencies, have been well described in unclassified publications (American and
foreign} and readily accessible to Soviet nationals or sympathetic foreign and
'American nationals; transportation facilities are ample and travel arrangements
are virtually unrestricted in most areas. Conversely, American and foreign
nationals find it impossible to visit many parts of the Soviet Union and their
3. The discomfort of some transport facilities, the weariness of traveling
very long distances, the hazards to health posed by excessive food and drink
at numerous and prolonged receptions naturally require a delegation large enough
to absorb "casualities" and still continue an effective intelligence mission.
The American delegation preferably should visit the Soviet Union during the
period of relatively good observations (long days and good weather), i. e.,
from early June through August.
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SUBJECT: Exchange of Delegations, Geography (continued)
4. Since it is difficult or impossible for trained observers to travel in
much of the U.S.S.R., it is extremely desirable that the collection group
represented by this delegation be permitted to gain entry to critical border
zones (such as the Baltic coast) and to areas of rapid and recent expansion,
especially in the Ural Mountain district, in the Kuznetsk area and in the
vicinity of Irkutsk on the .Angara River (as indicated in Enclosure 2, Proposed
Itinerary). However, the expressed purpose of this geographic delegation
naturally requires that it spend some time in Moscow, the heart of Soviet
geographic activities, and in Kiev. Since the Soviets may haggle over the
proposed itinerary, alternative visits (such as the Donets, Tashkent, or
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2 Incl.
1. Proposed Delegates
2. Proposed Itinerary
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