SOVIET ACTIVITIES IN FRANCE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300650007-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 16, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLiGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY France/Russia
SUBJECT Soviet Activities in-France
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DIST_ 2e February 1947
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In a last minute check of papers. French police asked
passengers of the RUSSIA if they were leaving Prance of their
own free will. Source reports that only five persons said
that they were being taken to the 'USSR by force, Of these,
three did not make the trip. The other two embarked after
Soviet authorities threatened reprisals on their families In
he USSR. Source adds that when the ship stopped at a foreign
port on its trip from Marseille to Odessa, part of the crew
and saw of the persons being repatriated fled he ship.
2, on board the RUSSIA, source reports, was the journalist,
Roschine-Dneprov, Who said he was to be the Moscow
correspondent for Des Nouvelles Russes. Since discontinuance
of the paper about a rs o s year. Roschine is said to
have joined the staff of Patriarch Alexis in Moscow.
3. The Soviet School for Russian Children in Paris (40 rue Saint
Didier. Paris 16) follows a curriculum prescribed for schools
in the Soviet Union, source reports. Soviet Patriot head-
quarters provides lunches to encourage attendance,
Jed Pantchenko, secretary in the Russian Embassy, gives
courses there.
4. A.G. Abramov? Consul General of the USSR in France, is taking
steps, according to source, to restore the enthusiasm of
members of the Union of Soviet Patriots, where a "state of
depression" has worried Soviet Embassy officials. Abramov
will seek to do this by the Society of Friends of
Soviet Russia, an inactive society founded after the Liberation.
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