POSTAL TRAFFIC IN LATVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R011000020007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
.JNFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
COUNTRY USSR (Latvian SSR) DO NOT CIRCULATE DATE DISTR.
25 April .1952
SUBJECT Postal Traffic in Latvia NO. OF PAGES 2
FOR CRITICAL SECURITY REASU E
DATE OF THIS REPORT IS NOT TO BE FURTHER
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INFO. STATES, OR BEYOND THE BORDERS (LISTED BELOW)
PLACE Of THE UNITED STATES, WrT'TUUT THE
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ACQUIRED II:C DEF;CE, REPORT NO.
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Comment: Although this report contains information which duplicates
it is is dated a year later X
the previous report. It is distributed to confirm the previous report and to
indicate that the postal regulations in Latvia remained unchanged, at least up
to September 1951.
Correspondence with Foreign Countries
1. There are no official restrictions on sending letters abroad from Latvia.
2. Letters do not have to be sent by registered post or delivered to a post office
in person by the sender but may be dropped into any post box. The only require-
ment is that the sender's name and address should be written on the back of the
envelope.
Correspondence Inside Latvia
3. It is generally assumed that persons sending letters abroad or receiving such
correspondence are recorded by the security authorities. 1,
4. Letters addressed to places in Latvia or in the U.S.S.R. do not have to show
the sender's name or address.
5. As a rule postal traffic inside Latvia is normal and it takes ordinary internal
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letters two to throo7; days to r-'-a(.-,h their destination, but cases have been
known when it took a letter sovc:n. days to reach the addrasse, th refore
it is susp: ct acl ~~ t, an occasional c.^nsorship of inland letters is also
carried out.
6. It is known that lctta+rs from abroad do reach L"6:tvi but that letters
sent out from Latiria. often fail to atsrive at thoix? destination and simply
disappear on the way.
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Con tent: It is clo4.r th;d while th identity of the sender
of a letter abroad (if he dots not givo: his own n ar,) is not necessarily
obvious, the recipient of at 1. ct.'L-Xr f rom:a abroad is at once a msrked man,
and therefore people in Latvia in gener