BETWEEN THE LINES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102520001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 10, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT
Mk. MARYLAND MONITOR
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/12 : CIA-RDP73-00475R000102520001-7
Bethesda, Maryland
JUNE 10, 1966 ,
-etween The Lines
by Edith Kermit Roosevelt
WASHINGTON--When an? The Soviet defector's warning
is timely In view of the fact that
American tourist visited an office
Of the Soviet travel orgaiiiiation
Intourist recently, he marvelled
at the hospitality and friendship
iwith which he was received. The
:branch manager himself came
out to shake the startled Ameri-
can's hand and invited him for
a glass of Russian tea in his
.office.
But, the pretty secretary who
:took the tourists hat and' coat
ito.-the ' anteroom- had a' special
.assignment._... She removed the
"sweatband of his hat; treated
.Washington is promotingtourtsrn
as rnibin-S-abbiteringrelations
between the United States and the
Soviet bloc. The rationale for
this policy appeared in Study
Phoenix Paper 1, the policy-
Setting paper prepared by Vin-
-cent P. Rock for the State De-
? "The internal AVH .works
against the foreign diplomats,
the ? students who come to study
in Hungary and the tourists...
Always the internal people are
looking for good recruits among
the diplomats, the students, the
tourists. ? They monitor tele-
phones, try to plant the micro-
' rhones and maintain the surveil-
partment in July,of 1963. Rock '..:ank..e on foreigners. ? This is
wrote: ? ' tlie Main principle' if you can
. recruit' a foreigner . inside
? .
; "The United States should seek. Pungary, you may have a good
to expand interaction with the agent - in his home or another
Soviet people in areas such as foreivn capital one day."
art, 'games, and tourism...The ????? '
it with-a-themiear 'substance; ability' to play together .may be .,:, ? :, "
. -: n'
'and' replaced it 1
-with *two rolls prerequisite to effective colla-
I addition to the recruiting
'of microfilm , embedded in the . .boration in many other fields,' ni! agents and the use of witting
folds. The chemical solution was ? To help further this *policy, the ei unwitting couriers for Soviet .. ?
?e:tpionage, 1.1..S. tourists play a
0 . a protective measure. Should Citizen Exchange Corps (CEC), a -: ' ;..
the unsuspecting tourist tear it 'supposedly "PriVate" gioup with ' special role in aiding the Red
?
.off by mistake or should his hat jlinks to conspiracy in these areas:
.,,the ;State Department, ..?:?'.
?
be lost, the chemical would ?Iias been quietly working to bring':
, destroy the films and theSecret 'about large scale exchange of r. . 1; As an important source
:?message?they contained: - - - ' :visits between"Soviet and Arners-!ef American dollars. While tour- .;
i.- ? ---??? ---....------e-,?---?,.-0 . .can citizens: Last August CEC :...ist travel to the Soviet Union
? A rec_eptien_ committee await- . sent a_group..,Orr4i/Aliierican, H .0t.rly??arnounts to some $35 million '
i
ed the When he Landed in-cTu-ding a university president, .? f'i Year, this is an important.,
I. at Moscow's Sheremetyeve Air- :businS" inen ' arid ' students, to:: figure in terms of the Soviets ,
; port.- The 'moment-he-checked !SOViet. Russia 'for three-v?eas.? ..? declining gold reserves and their ,
' into his hotel, the chambermaid:'The' Corporation COuncil "for this '-'?: debts to Western -European
'raxiThInrrallot-bath7The Micro- ,'New -York city based organiza- '? 1 nations. These U.S. dollars and
!
films were deftly; removed from .;tion is James B. Donovan, who otli?. hard ?Western currencies.,
his-hat before he had time to ,was ?-?inVcilVed In. such "gray"-. . can later be redeemed for gold;
wash his back. AnotheFAmerican , government Operations as the rc..i at the official world price. This:;
! tourist had been fingered as 'an ''lease of Bay of Pigs prisoners. :gold in turn can be sold through
? i
' unsuspecting espionage courier !ITY?CaSti'ii?an-crilireldliariV 'Or? black market channels at a sub
.s
, by__ Irlt-!-N:Fistr which operates :7 rues-- -2.6-,-.7 Powers,- the ,? .
branch 1- to buy_
-a; stantial markup, usedfelfais-OFIOlininOe7
?cities, includi
. ..br offices In seven WesternAnierfc
. iii. (J-pilot, for a?S afrilteli&- iii
' Soviet 1
_ .... ? master sp ?,....,. ? ?.-.? -? .,....'.-'"wars of liberation". - .
"Potemkin village. tours. ,
.1 Gullible tourists are shepherded
through carefully selected beauty
spots in order to impress tliern -
with the Soviet Union's supposed
"peaceful development" image.
One of the most notorious ex-
amples was when W. Averell
Harriman, now undersecretary
of state, returned from a tour:
of ' the USSR,- to praise the
luxurious prison of Kryukovo as
typical of Soviet slave labor,
comps.
In a Senate Internal Security'
Subcommittee publication en-,
titled "Beware' ? Tourists Re-'
port on Runsia", Eugene Lyons;
'the well-known author who spent
several years in the Soviet Union,:
summed it up as follows:
"For every tourist who catches
a glimpse of the crsim realities,
there are. dozens who simply act
as innocent transmission belts
Ifo-r Mo s co w'ss. , propaganda
.,wares."
ng New York ? ? .
? Such attempts to send "am-
.bassadors of goodwill" to the ?
Soviet bloc ignore the dangers ?
:91.togripm which is well'known
to our Central' Intelligence
Agencz. Eg2T?:'04b6; az:toftheiv
It'iaj6r in' ' the" Hungarian Secret
Service (AVH), warned of Com-
munist use of tourists as a pool
of potential Red agents. In testi-
mony released March 114 1966
by' tht:CIAN,pubcommittee of the
House. Armed "Service ? Com-
, ?
mittee, he said*
(..
.5,:**!6 ?
The above anecdote-is..one of,"
i several -related by Arkady
?"1
V. Gorin a formex: fre-Fra--1??
Cigna? for Intonrist;who defect-
ed to the West last Year. Writing
in - the- spring--1966 issue *of the
Ukrainian Quarterly, )orin
warns that' -tourism 'continues to
be' used. ei a', vehicle- fO,F-Red
? espionage and an important arm
of the ? 'Communist conspiracy.
He -urged .'Athericans ' think
? twice before bOlag-a: ticket to
?( the U.S.S.R. ? .? ? ? '? ? ???
2. Tourists provide an im-
portant source of military, in-;
dustrial, personal and political
' information. In this connection,
obtaining facts and figures about ?
'new weaponry is still important
but not as important as getting
information about the hobbies and
passions of say a visiting U.S.
trade union leader or foundation
, official. The main thrust of,
.Soviet subversion is the paraly-
sis ? and diversion of policy and
? the molding. of public opinion.
?
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/12 : CIA-RDP73-00475R000102520001-7