LETTER TO R. STURGIS INGERSOLL FROM ALLEN W.DULLES

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 7, 1958
• Content Type: LETTER

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R. Situ gis Ingersoll/ Esq.
Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll
1435 Land Title Building
Philadelphia 10, Pennsylvania
August 1958
Dear Sturg:
I have your letter of August 4. You are only one of
many recipients of such press releases and propaganda. If I
were you, I would be inclined not to pay any attention to the
matter nor make any acknowledgment, but consign the material
to the waste paper basket, unless your curiosity is aroused to
see what they are sending.
I mentioned this little problem to my FBI liaison. and
you need not worry that your receipt of this material will get you
into any trouble.
You may be interested in the attached State Department
press release of today which bears on your problem.
AWD:at:ji
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Sincerely,
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Allen W. Dulle s
Director
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The Honorable Allen W. Dulles
2430 "E" St.N.W.
Washington 25, D. C.
August 4, 1958
Executive R@ti1gtly
Dear Allie,
For some reason or other during the past few weeks I have
been the recipient of releases from the Press Department of the
Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics emanating from
1706-18th St N.W., Washington 9, D.C.
In past years there wasso much excitement and cross-
examining of individuals with respect to communications they had
received from subversive organizations that I am on inquiry as to
whether I should tell the Soviet to take my name off their mailing
list.
With best regards, and good wishes with respect to
your immense responsibility,
RSI/BR R . Stuasg
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AUGUST 7,,'1958 NO. 452
DISTRIBUTION OF PRESS RELEASES BY THE
SOVIET EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON
On August 5, the Department of State delivered a note to
the Soviet Embassy at Washington concerning the Embassyts dis-
tribution of press releases. The note points out that the
Soviet Embassy recently began distributing press releases to
the United States press,.to individual members of the Congress,
United States Government officials and members of the
ge
public. These releases contain statements and appeals neral
Soviet leaders and organizations on a variety ofubjects.
They are distributed both directly and through the United
States postal system.
The note inquires whether this action of the Soviet Embassy
in Washington may be taken as an indication that the Soviet
.Government is prepared to insure full and effective reciprocal
privileges for the United States Embassy in Moscow. In the
note, the Department reiterates the long-standing support of
the United States Government for a freer exchange of information
and ideas and a lowering of the barriers erected by the Soviet
Government in this field.
The text of the note follows:
The Acting Secretary of State of.the United States of
America presents his compliments to His Excellency the Ambassador
of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and has the honor to
refer to the recent action of the Embassy In commencing wide
distribution to the press, to individual members of Congress,
to other Government officials, and to the general public, of
press releases containing statements and appeals.by Soviet
leaders and organizations on a variety of subjects.
As the Soviet Government is aware, the United States Govern-
ment has traditionally favored a free exchange of information
and ideas among the peoples of the world. Evidence of United
States initiative in this regard is contained, insofar as the
Soviet Union is concerned, in the proposals submitted by the
Foreign Ministers of the United States, the United Kingdom,
and France on October 31, 1955 at the Geneva Meeting of Foreign
Ministers and in the United States position during negotiations
leading to the Agreement of January 27, 1958 on'Exchanges in
the Cultural, Technical, and Educational Fields.
Points one and two of the 1955 Geneva proposals state:
"1, Freer exchange of information and ideas should be
facilitiated. All censorship should be pregressively eliminated.
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