WRITER TRIP IS CANCELED BY MOSCOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400200013-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: June 10, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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JUN 10 1966
Writer T
By. MOSCOW
'Routers
MOSCOW, June O-Russia,
today canceled alanl~etyit~i
to-1 CPY0_rx , y...six., Russian
wrif'crs who.. were _to??,sittei
the' 34th 'Congress of the 'Yn'-
terndtitin; 1 l'en Cluli. =.`o ily^
five' clays after.namina..itS.del
e ation A brief report by the Soviet
news agency Tass said the So-
viet 'Writers' Union had in-
formed' the Pen Club secre-I
tariat of the decision, but
{ gave no reasons..
Pen officials warned the
Russians earlier this year that
they would face a barrage of
criticism over the imprisoning
of two writers in Moscow in
'1"February if they attended.
They had also indicated to
the Soviet Writers' Union that
Pen would probably refuse to
accept them as members at
the present time because of
the trial and sentence of the
two writers.
Andrei Sinyavsky, a prom-
inent literary critic, was sen-
tenced to seven years hard la-
bor, and Yuli Dnaiel, a poet-
translator, five years, for slan-
dering the Soviet. Union in
books they smuggled to the
West. t.:.:
00 3-W fl
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