JOE PYNE SHOW 14 AUGUST 1966

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700190018-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 14, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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JOE PYNR SHOW
14 AUGUST 1966
DOE PYIE State your name sir.
Martin Selkopf (?)
JP Yes '
i' And I think he is right (referring to previous speaker)
about us being rude in a way at the Hollywood Bowl. It
sounds like, at a high school football game when you
stand for your own alma mater but you sit down when the
other alma mater is played. I think it is very childish
and I think the audience was kind of rotten to applaud,
yell, and scream when we sat down because the Russian
anthem was played. These are performers, these are not
Communists coming over trying to indoctrinate us.
JP Well, I appreciate what you have to say, but don't you
believe this was the whiplash reaction to what Russia
had just done, in pulling the athletes out of the track
event?
IiS The Bolshoi Ballet was at the Hollywood Bowl before
the track meet happened.
JP Did it happen prior to this announcement?
MS Yes
J`:' You're certain of this?
MS Yes
JP I assumed that was the reason for it.
MS No, It wasn't, it's, it's just a very rude thing to do
and everybody, everybody in America, they all say that
everybody in Russia is Communist like if you say anything
Russian or if you hum anything by Tchaikovsky you are
automatically a Russian.
GUEST Watch that Stravinsky... it's dangerous stuff.
Ms Yes, I think its just rotten, that's all, because I
think it is unfair to the performers as a cultural
exchange because no other country receives American
performers more warmly than Russia does.
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