LETTER TO HON. EDWARD R. MURROW FROM WALTER ELDER

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 8, 1961
• Content Type: LETTER

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ER 61-7196
S September 1961
-ion. Edward R. IKurr+sw
Director, United States Inforn:stion Agency
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Murrow:
Just before his departure on a brief
holiday, Mr. Dulles asked me to look into
the matter of unrest in the Ukraine which
I understand you raised in a meeting with
him on 31 Ai gust.
I hope you will find the attached
memorandum of some use.
Uncerely.
Walter Elder
Assistant to the Director
O/DCI/WElder/bd (8 Sept 61)
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3 Septeix.ber 1%1
ME MORA2 DU; _
SUBJECT: Unrest in the Soviet Ukraine
Ukrainian nationalierr since V~ orld War U has taken
d fferent forar s, and the question of its existence has bees.,
a subject of son 'e controversy among Western observers.
It is a fact, however, that the Soviet regime has gained firr?& ..
the West's disinterest in Ukrainian political aspirations.
Moscow has sought to prove to the Ukrainians that they
an maintain their national existence (note that the Ukrair e
has representation in the United Nations) only in partner-
ship with the USSR. The Soviets have waged a vigorous
rpaign to this and not only among Soviet Ukrainians
but aaa-zong the Ukrsinias emigration abroad as well.
iTycrsini t:
a sttaUalis za faded exists. This is especially so in the
western (formerly Polish) Ukraine, among both the iratelli-
geotsia and the rural corr.mutaities. The Ukrainians protest
lark of Ukrsinfen lataguage textbooks. restricted ad-- Is--
aions of western Ukrainians into Soviet institutions of
higher learning, and difficulties encountered by Ukrainians
in gaining en-ployrsa*at is the Ukraine. The Soviets have
preferred to ecr;pioy Ukrainians in Soviet Asia and in the
Russian Republic itself. Soviet troops in the Ukraine are
not of Ukrainian natiormlity, and Ukrainian n_Uitary per=-
so el rust do their service elsewhere in the USSR.
The Ukraine also contributes heavily to the Soviet
Union's industrial and techaoiogieal production, but sets
back less than its share da consu :err goods.
STAT
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I the Ukratulans are comp nb'g
that rural economic conditions have not been worse since I_? ori.
War II, that even wages are often not paid. To live n-any stesi,
and others live on packages seat from the United States the
contents of which they consume or Bell.
There is further evidence of the Ukrainian thorn ta the
Soviet side. Several Ukrainian nationalist leaders living
abroad have been assassinated. the most recent being the well.
known Ste
Resistance ,,y Ukrainian* toes on in other Porn a.
F active collusion
between highly placed Ukrainian inteltectuula of the Conies
munist Party in Lvov (USSR) and high-level Polish Communists
working together to minimise } oscow central over both the
Ukraine and Poland.
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