INSIDE RUSSIA AMERICAN TOURISTS GET 'COLD WAR' BRIEFINGS BEFORE TRIPS TO USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300090005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 28, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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ours w show you
I aside Russia proud of and which they think will impress;
you favorably They, 'will dirCOurage you from
American Tourists Get sesking~wha~tll' don't'wadt 7 u to see,
upeelally tlsey'll 4seattge private dotftactI
between you and Soviet ?ttyonx," he says.
"Cold War" Briefings Mr. Gills am ut'te? American travelers
to a &pe from "the stately quadrille" which
Bef o re' Tri' to USSR 1 ttousist Milt pla tned for ft m: "Take up your
i' cotirMfe and your phrase book and break away
from your. Iatouriat guide, 00 out aQ your own: j'.
jeat 'in a worker's" testawant; :yon'li have the .
Aim Is for Greater Contacts 1 richest experiences of )'our trtA.'l . M the. In?!.
oourist hotels and reitslfrants, ttla:traveler will .'_
With Red Citizens to Dispel encounter only fellowtoveignern and Intouriait:?
. employes, he says.
(bucks Intouristi "There is a very wide range
of things 'a tourist may 'do which 21e between
How to Avoid Soviet. Guidesiwhat is aetually forbidden and what Intouriat
wants to` show yo;" according .to Mr."Gil- -:.-
Mon with
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Soviet Propaganda Fog
By En CONY lingham.
Staff Reporter of Talc WALL STREtT JOURNAL TOurist: 'l a (rows 1
NEW YORK-The United States has dis- The number of American visits to the So-
i vier Unidn is 'stilt - small compsrsd with the
covered a now, non-nuclear, non-ballistic inter- horde who' tramp over the rest of Europe.
vontinental weapon: The American tourist: However, there has been a sharp increase over,
Americans traveling behind the Iron Cur- the handful who traveled to Russia a decade
tain are being enlisted in the Cold War-withi.agO. $omethlnf like 9,000 to 10,000 Americans
encouragement from the State Department. It l-fll penetrate the Iron Curtain this summer to
begins with a "briefing" In a building aerose' -'isit cities such as Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev.
In 1957, the first VW of any large-scam
tine recent hot. and humid morning, 15 'U.S. Ing to a State Reps ent estimate.
citizens, bound ter the Soviet Union on s.tour, Many of the to would return to the;