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American Friends Service Committee — Part 30

122 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Jan 15, 1955 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: American Friends Service Committee · 121 pages OCR'd
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. a * > Pea _# . Dircctor, FBI. - . . a Evening meeting (3805. ALDERSON-was 121- - te _ 7 and not present. ) te - : *EDOAR RESGADS presiding. | Shoaed an AFSC eound-color movie * thith the Quakers in foreat, Introduced: ~ - “ETE EDSON (professor of Russian at Penn State) story o: rrotestant tutler who believed all Catholics had a horn in niddle of forghead which disappeared when looked for, Sano with uss; we think all Coccunists have a _ horn in forehead. There ig en impression in Aussia that all ‘Americans have a horn, <All over fuseia peozle said thet Russia wanted peace, but tho U. S. did not. Re said Aneri~ Gans wanted poace, énd they ssid, 'Oh, it must be just the : . Ancsrican cavitalists who don't want peace.’ te said, well no, tecause most of us arc capitalists. Tf you visit Russia as the gucst of sone organization, you fet one picture, but we wanted to gc on cur own this trip. A year ago in Yugo- Blevia, es @ gucst of National Peace Com., I pot a ‘sense of unreality. ‘in this trip, I fot @ eense of frustration by beins in a bureauciéctic country. We were in a little | tem end winted to fo to a villaze 25 miles away, whose pernission we had to have was eway, and tent on being . @way mtil we pave it up as taking too lorz. Just a matter , * of red tape - not intentional at sli. Gur routa beran at Leningrad. Se divided into two groupa ~ STLVE CARTY and ECORE Went to Central Asia, and we four to Penza (7) to Stalinrrad ne the Volza and the Don Canal end en artificial — leke 25 by LO miles, creating hydroelectric pover, «e /38pont tro. eos in a boat to Rostov on the Bon and to Kiev and Loscow. Ne went on a holiday beat trio with Russian Baptists, the boat packed with Russians. There were four Slasses. ihe first and second shared the top deck, and the athar tro, the lower ceck, Ye didntt eat io the lsver feok an - ’ w WSS Aa ake A BUR Rae FF - too busy talking and answering questions on the top deck. « © The upper deck was for peasants who are now doing other "kinds of work. The lower deck was for poasants who are 2". farm workers. In talking to the Russians there was nothing ‘8 x consciously avoided diecunsinge Tie, on both sides, @pproached all subjects’in tho spirit of petting at the truth, A womtn journalist asked ma with what iepression I > was going homes and I said with surprise that the standard of canes « * se a7. wy. bial yt wee can Sa The official © i arn
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