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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/17 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001000280001-9 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY This Document contains information affecting the Ns- tional Defense of the United States, within the mean- ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.8. Code, as INFORMATION REPORT to or reccipt by an unnuthoriged person is prohibited by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited. SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION 25X1 ee COUNTRY USSR (Kalinin Oblast )/Germany REPORT SUBJECT re Political Attitudes in the” USSR DATE DISTR. 26 May 1953 2. Soviet Reaction to Foreign Radio Broadcasts NO…

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/17 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001000280001-9 2. 3e 4s. 5. 1s Re a eh wey SECRET ; wi Dan It is well to keep in mind that there was hardly a family or person in the Soviet Union who had not been directly or indirectly. affected by the oppressive measures of the Soviet police atate. & Soviet chemist who enjoyed a responsible position at In- 25X11 stitute 88 was typical of several Soviet citizens 25X1 father and several brothers or sisters had been arrested during a purge in the 1930's and had never been heard of aince. Only. the chemist and his mother remained.…

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/17 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001000280001-9 Bs 9 10. ll. SECRET 3 The former probably stood their distance out of discretion and fear -- fear that they might be considered as politically | unreliable by members of the Party. Soviet employees never spoke of the MGB when referring to the secret police but used the term MVD or NKVD. It was their universal desire to stay as far away from MVD personnel as possible, especially those engaged in uncovering supposedly subversive elements. Al- ‘though the average Soviet spoke as little as possible about the MVD, it wa…

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release | 201 106/17 : CIA- RDP80- 00810A001000280001-9 12. a ose oe j . SECRET <4 ‘Comments by Soviet citizens on such developments.as the Mar- shall Plan, NATO,and EDC were seldom if. ever heard, nor was much said about such noteworthy developments as the atomic explosion in the USSR, the Soviet peace appeala,and the sup- posed West German army. Presumably these points were too sensitive to be discussed with Germans or with strangers. — ‘Possibly. the average Soviet simply lacked the necessary time or money to be a regular reader of newspapers. | Roxiet Reaction t…

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 201 1/06/17 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001000280001-9 25x11 ‘SECRET ee frequently discussed reports of "flying saucers” in the United States although these were not carried in the Soviet press, - 18. Many Soviet engineers at Branch No. 1 brought their radios to to be repaired or adjusted. It was note- 25X1 ‘worthy that they were always i in improving or oor- ; reocting short wave reception. | most, 25X11 if-not all, of these radio owners listened to broadcasts from the West as, of course, few Soviet stations transmit on short wave bands. Again, KHUTORIANSKIY was one …