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Informal History--US Intelligence Involve=ment in the
East-west Exchanges Program
The official East-West exchanges program had its genesis in the Geneva
Summit Conference of mid 1955 when the US and USSR heads of state discussed
the possibility of a future exchanges program. Details of the program were
worked out. late in 1955 during a conference of foreign ministers.
However,.the first agreement itself was not signed until January 1955
and covered a two year period as did each subsequent agreement until 1973.
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