EX-GI, PAL VANISH IN RUSSIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300370088-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 88
• Publication Date: September 15, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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,;ized - Approved For Release: CIA-R
,Mm zed 15, 1960
N- a He ex-ills tilt ?7 t +y.1erotixed Cato ftassl;'July
d 'hIs ..? fvlt'rar+I' non as .accepted tottrista,
Air dropped tbuddy` ate
ciro both >t -been granted scDolar-
]ci soul 0 it'.hn-.'abIpA from fan edumtioarai.Turd
ltincf tine Iron
Curtain tin- `",fin Philadelphia to visit Russia and
to mVsterio 'several satellite nations, she said.
Itlt- '
:,f,tnctrt.~e t- Het' husband, a native of Tracy,
Calif.. was graduated - from the
University of California at Berke-
ley last January where he majored
,,in Russian studies.
She said'r;he lecclved several
le&terj (sons her- husband as, he
;g ad. Smo11e~k and other Jussian
"They were mostly drsrrin.
4- d he
fuss worried ar disturbed.':
from 'a small village- in-- the
Ukraine dated Aug. 1a, explain-
tng he was to leave Russia in
C F.ENNETT' about Aix days for Vienna.
''I haven't heard ', from him
t ~,c disirau Fd 26 y'ear.nj "Ur c girce,";,she told the Traveler.
ltars'ey dent Bennett, 26, td'd',"And l ni worried over what could
tray airs today her, husband'.have happened to him...
d his friend hive been ttalssi69; Mrs. Benneft Said site wired the
ice se pt- 1. Mato Department and the Amer
I INKLING 1 pol Enterprises in Detroit, Mich.,
twhicb arranged. the tour.
THEM FATE
lrs. Aennett wild the State D8. VftMW
~Vp
meat and other agent?es have; ,feeWier has been able to come
into a blank *,,all (n. theirs p with a single clue as to where
rnpts to learn their whi're ` e' hen are, or what had hap-
:nts from the Russian got?cr?rl;otf to tJtenl?.
nt_ -A-spokesman of Amerpol said
his he voting loather of three sn?rali olli''d rR n ltourisagency Ithe
n
cirrn IS living with her fat',Et?.; ilioscow, to inquire about the two
rest C I.,- a forn^er Maine JravElet6.
slator. At 15 b.'nple Gtove'Ave ,M1 "We have received no reply,"
lhil told the Traveler. "Both nun
`.-were granted tourist visas by the
he said her huchand,sud his ' 15ovkt Embassy' in Washington
nd. Mark A ..-, tar.tbkr MD."
7 Fast Ann. 5+.. 'A.7n Arbor.
1;_ fie said
er.-. _be tutderdoitd tit->';
your . a ? esehtative_ of
rate; rtment at the U.&
hibition in Mox mv.(
Tle men kit by Swiss Airifhett
from New York on July 33, end
car and drove Into Russia,
TOUR INCLUpD i
tCl9OSLOVAKIA
from Russia `into Czechosiovaitis
about three {lays later. I have'AQ
idea.' what could have happened
to: the." .the agency spolcesrilan
When ask dIt the toes cqu'k
have been arrested by the Bus.
rte aaaed;
"I would assume if they, met
with an accident and were taken
to a hospital, the authorities at
the hospital would have notified.
the American Embassy."
.But'an official of thh StAte n.t
r cement cold the Traveler that
they, have received no reply to
their. official query to the Ameri-
can Enpbassy, 'indicating officials
there have received no word from
the Russians.
?tiers. Bennett, `the former' Rena
Lazard, said she c not under.
stand why she hasp't beard from
her husband since Actg. 19.
CONF'IDE14T HE-D
CONTACT HER
shet g 'and be was able. ee f
the -Air Force, stationed atythe~';`,
11.S. Naval Station, Brunswick,;
Me
ire served four years.. iii
clrkding as overseas,,assJgnment
In Korea. When. he w8s dis-
charged to 1856 they were man.
where her.buFrband entered.coi-
lege
t , t to+v Inn m+tt'~ writ
ee That ht was.41 close
Air Fore," she said
ton' mother,
, fie loeltcd ,lor1e v als.
~e .. ard_ to OIL-, F.rts-
aid,
,}rhea be rttu- _ " she' said.
~,
@ rt~llErrt .arc nCi ee
.:~... ~__ and other a~cnces
1V4 -- ml trusband and his c ompa.
rR t _ ,_ 2, Graf; 1. Fuld
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