EDUCATION AND LIFE IN THE SOVIET UNION AS OBSERVED BY A NORWEGIAN OFFICIAL VISITOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00418R000200160009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 27, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
-ACE ACQUIRED
111SSR (Moscow Oblast, Leningrad
Oblast, Armenian Silt)
'Education and. Life in the Soviet
Union as Observed by a Norwegian
Official Visitor
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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I. A ten--page report on the visit of the Norwegian Youth Leader Delegation to tht
Soviet Union is available in the CIA Library.
2. The report covers an inspection of School No. 515, a model. school in Moscow of
which the Soviet hosts were especially proud, but in which the Norwegian visitors
could find nothing that was not common practice in their own country.
3. When the delegates inspected kindergart6rs in Moscow, Leningrad, and Yerevan,
Armenia, they noted that the standards were somewhat lower than those in Norway,
but that these institutions were "one of the good and encouraging" things to be
seen in the Soviet Unions
I, The delegate also describes a visit to a factory vocational school and to the
apartment of an ardent Communists
5. The last part of the report is given over to a description of the ardent CommL
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youth leaders who were acting as guides and their reaction to statemen
expressed intentionally by members of the delegation to test
tern ideology
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sincerity of the guides. In general, Soviet beliefs were so ingrained that even
after a demonstration of fact, falsehoods were still accepted as the truth.
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