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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500490120-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 120
• Publication Date: May 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2001/09/11 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000500490120-2
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U.S. Officials Only
CONFIrEm?I.AL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Cz:choslovakia
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DATE DISTR.3 " Ay 1954
NO. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
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REPORT NO.
1. 'IAs for the magazines you sent, I am very sorry, but or, it looks I shall never
get them. I learned Just a few days ago from a man who works with the customs
that they to not pass any printed matter and they keep it 'co study the
conditions' in the countries from which the magazines come. X have this feic7
for a very mean and stupid way to keep from the people all the information
about other countries. He said they take such magazines where could be soon
the prices. So I think that you are right when you stop sanding me the
magazines. It is a pity for I did not see any US magazine since 1948.
2. "I think 1 quite understand you as far as your coumont on my optimism or
pessimism is concerned, but, I am afraid, you do not understand me. I met a
lot of people both from the UK and the US who could not understand many things
that were going on bore, but that all comes from the way of living and educa-
tion of the people. You see, it is bard to be full of optimism, to have
ambitions and what also, when you do not know what will be with you today. I
remember many Amoricrns in the last war did not believe there could be concen-
tration camps and that such things that were going on in them could be possible,
but when they came to Dachau and other camps they saw they were mistaken, and
what they saw then was only a part of the things that happened before they came.
If I could tell you all I know you would understand me better then.
3. "We had lOnas without snow, there was not even frost, only dust in the streets.
But after New Year then came both snow and very hard frosts. We still have
hard frosts of about 20 degrees (Celsius) below zNiro LJIIIIIIII~. It is bad,
for the water pipes in our house cracked, than we are running short of coal,
too, and to add to it there, was as epidemic of flu. Both my wife and Helen
were down with it.
4. I0Tho stamps are a problem here. I send a lot of stamps to many people all over
the world, but than it came. I send about 50 mint stamps to my friend in India,
but after a 'short time I got a letter from the Central Custom office in Prague
telling me it was for the last time I was exporting stamps without permission
and if it is rap to they ill prosecute me. Then there was quite a short note
about the bight Laic/ of the films. They have returned both my letter and the
stamps, they only k pt the envelope. So T gave up sending stamps. The fine
runs up to live thousand Czeoh oroilme anQ that means the income of a teaoher of
five months." US OFFICIALS CNL ?U6~8 0AP.~rfll?
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