RULES CONCERNING CIRCULATION AND PASSPORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500530183-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 183
• Publication Date: June 7, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Lithuania, USSR
Rules Concerning Circulation and Passports
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DATE DISTR. '7 Jun 1954
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1. After t'ie age of 16, every resident must be provided with a domestic
passport, in which his social status must be listed. If, at this age, the
resident is listed "without profession", the person or persons with whom he-
lives, must pay a tax far him as for a domestic servant. A passport is
delivered for only three years, and its issuance involves numerous formalities.
To procure a passport, one must make at least three trips to the center
of the district which is often very difficult (especially for the sick, the
crippled and the old) due to insufficient means of transportation. Few
areas have train service, and then, there is only one train per day. Most
frequently, the only means is a truck; people find a space as best they can
on a truck loaded with wood, beets, turf or cattle. If the driver is
a So-riet, in nine out of ten instances he is drunk. Thus, accidents are
much more frequent than one might expect frcm such a limited circulation.
At the office where passports are issued, a crowd begins to assemble at
four o'clock in the morning. Often, one roust wait two or three days before
even presenting the ma_n r papers and certificates which are required. These
are almost always refused in a ccarrlul manner.
Foreigners are not allowed to leave the district in which they live without
spe,.?ial permission from the Foreign Office. A normal wait for this
permission is two raonths. Consequently, travel for foreigners is fuibidlen.
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Agencies indicated above. it is not to be transmitted overseas without the concurrence of the
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Theoretically, every citizen of the USSR can travel freely within the
Soviet tbion. A,otiually, tourism is impossible. One never finds a roam
at a hotel. Furthermore, one cannot travel without a passport, for
checkups en route, are rot infrequent. If one does stop at a hotel, he
must leave his passport at the desk. QLy excursion trips are possible.
Space is reserved f'r members of the Party or, rather, to some of the
privileged ones of the Party. The youth in Lithuania organizes
excursions for Riga. To do this] they rent a truck and than write to
a school where they might be assured shelter for the night in a claesrcom.
They must often wait two or three weeks in order to find a free classroom
during the summer vacation. '
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