ACTION PLAN FOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE TO THE DCI

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• Publication Date: October 26, 1989
• Content Type: MISC

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10TH DISTRICT, VIRGINIA
WASHINGTON OFFICE:
104 CANNON BUILDING
WASHINGTON, DC 20515
[phone]
CONSTITUENT SERVICES OFFICES:
1651 OLD MEADOW ROAD
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October 26, 1989
The Honorable William H. Webster
Director
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Dear Judge Webster:
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I want to share with you the enclosed report of my recent
trip to the Soviet Union. As members of the Helsinki Commission,
Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey and I travelled in August to Perm
Labor Camp 35.
Perm 35 is regarded as one of the most notorious "political"
camps in the Soviet Union. We found conditions in this "strict
regime" camp deplorable and our report identifies several steps
and recommendations we believe may help to advance glasnost to
the gulag in the Soviet Union.
A former Perm 35 inmate, Lithuanian Catholic priest Alfonsas
Svarinskas, has called Soviet prisons the "barometer of Soviet
reality." It is important that Members of Congress, human rights
groups, and those in the Administration closely follow promised
Soviet reforms like the "laws on conscience" in the months ahead.
I hope this information is helpful.
Sincerely,
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REP. CHRISTOPHER SMITH
... heard prisoners' complaints
REP. FRANK WOLF
... singled out "political" cases
Congressmen Interview
Inmates at Soviet Camp
'We Believe We Saw Political Prisoners'
By Michael Dobbs
Washington Post Foreign Service
MOSCOW, Aug. 10?After be-
coming the first U.S. officials to vis-
it a Soviet labor camp, two mem-
bers of the congressional Helsinki
Commission took issue with Pres-
ident Mikhail Gorbachev's claims
that there are no political prisoners
in the Soviet Union.
"We believe we saw political pris-
oners," said Rep. Christopher H.
Smith (R-N.J.), who was permitted
to visit a Siberian prison known as
Perm-35 with Rep. Frank R. Wolf
(R-Va.).
The decision to allow Westerners
to tour the prison reflects Gorba-
chev's desire to show that the Krem-
lin has nothing to hide prior to a ma-
jor human rights conference in Mos-
cow in 1991. The congressmen ap-
peared impressed with glasnost, or
openness, but convinced that the So-
viet Union still has a long way to go
in improving its human rights record.
At a news conference in Moscow,
the congressmen said they had been
Able to talk to 23 of the 38 prison-
ers remaining in the Perm camp.
They said most of those inter-
viewed described themselves as po-
litical prisoners.
Addressing the United Nations
last November, Gorbachev insisted
that "in places of confinement [in
the Soviet Union], there are no per-
sons convicted for their political or
religious beliefs." He appeared to be
referring to prisoners convicted un-
der Articles 70 and 190 of the Pe-
nal Code covering "anti-Soviet ag-
itation" and "slander:'
The American legislators refused
to say how many of the convicts in-
terviewed at Perm could be de-
scribed as "prisoners of con-
science," but Wolf singled out
Leonid Lubman and Valery Smirnov
as "political" cases. -----
Lubman, a 53-year-old electron-
ics engineer, was sentenced in 1978
to 13 years in a labor camp after he
smuggled out a manuscript that in-
cluded the profiles of 30 allegedly
corrupt officials. Smirnov, a 44-
year-old computer specialist, was
convicted of treason after returning
to the Soviet Union voluntarily af-
ter he had received political asylum
in the United States.
The congressmen also inter-
viewed Mikhail Kazachkov, 55, a
physicist from Leningrad now in the
Perm prison. Kazachkov, whom
Western human rights organiza-
tions regard as a political prisoner,
was convicted of treason after
meeting with U.S. consular officials
and asking for help in emigrating to
the United States:
The Soviet authorities appear to
have taken some trouble in making
the Perm 'camp presentable prior to
the congressmen's visit. Walls had
been recently painted, and freshly
potted flowers adorned the camp.
The congressmen said many in-
mates complained about the lack .of
adequate heat in winter, infrequent
visits by families and a ban on re-
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