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14-00000 ince ome Rae! aenise Le Lee, | i ‘before they went further, otherwise there. did not appear to be. anyone - whe noticed the meeting partisularly. ‘The source exolained that he . t | : | | | [ SWEET UKE ODEI3A Apral 2, 1964 Cases Meeting with american family ELUCK, A Sorweyian seaman who waa in ODESSA on April 2, 1964, had. difficulty in finals the city's largest hotel. while te was seerch’hs was approached on the street by an Ameri can-speaking woman, MulLIc (:LOCK, whe offered hur assistance. She was with her husband and duuvhter and told him that they were American citigens who had lived, amung other places, in Bronx, ‘ew York, but had been living in Odeesa for the paat four yeare. The following describes the occasion in greater detail: The source was Shur the inierclub (seamen'sa club) in Odessa where he tried to buy huselan caviar. He was referred to the hotel Odessa, A hostess at the club said that there were two hotels by that name in the city. He was to go the the large}, and she explained to him how to get there. The source tried to find the hotel but got lost. ‘Twice he asked Husdiang but was not understood. The last time waa on. the “boulevard. Suddenly a woman's voice called out in anglish from the other aide of un adjoining street, whereupon she. came over to the gource followed by a man ond a young girl, In fluent American she asked the source 4f he were english and said that her husband. and daughter were American and living in Udessa. Without any pare ticular cause both she ond her husband complained loudly about con= ditions in Odessa without any consideration fur passers-by. ‘The Russians to whom the sourey fad addressed himself stood around a bit was on his way to the hotel vdessa and invited the family to accompany him. They refused at first because they were not: dressed well enourh,- they had come frum work, had just picked up their dauchter and were. on their way lias, ‘When the source insisted, they allowed themselves. to be pursuadad, ‘there were no formal introductions, but during the conversation it came out thet the family wus called BLUCK and the wife'e first name waz MULLINS, : [-f PV 23 Hotel G'onsa was located in the vicinity in a sidestreet which le@-off from the boulevard, 4¢ the entrance to the restuarant they - ward stopped by a wiitroan uia protested in suseian. After some cone Vorgation betwen Mollie ani the waitrese they were ullowed to enter, Woliie said the waitroes hal thourht the daurhter wae too young but hed given in becwise the dauvhter was in the company of hay parentés, The yueste in the rartaurant were larvoly comprised of officers and gome eiviltane lneluding ‘eo women wid, julging from thelr r z xa 23 the, we peanenen ete ee see nr co0 tee HL nth te 20nd ere BNIOp NER enEnIy 5 etme ACEC BROS HOR ~ em Ay fe eam camegne Barzan cemngerenee me potent “bane einai: da, goalie > es we @
14-00000 ™ SECRET ~~ oom behavior, were prostitutes. iveryone was nicely ¢ressed, coneidering — that 4 wis suasia, so the flock fanily's reserwetions seeusd to have had 6 basis. 4 naitr:ss showed the source and ais party te a table, _ To the anaz-ment of the sloce family as aell 2s the source, the | waitress spoke uncerstand-ble :nglish, curinks were ordered anu the. Source tad hig puesta sat in the restaurant for about. § hours, As os they cid earlier on the boulevard, the couple. spoke. freely and without ; : Basing care that the conversation wee not overheard by others, at — - : the closest table sat two prostitu.es who sere entertained by eeveral to different officers, It did not appear that they were intervated in. the soureé'’s party. cS BLcadsemighiSt rd ames ar = - A cee eet fy tag ig eet ® The source guessed MULLIE F.OcK'S age to be about 45. Jmall and. plusp. Coepletely black, slishtly curly hair which hié her @aPS, Dark. (beown-tlack?) eyes. croad nose, she was on the whole quite cluasily built with short fat limba and quitc.uiettractive. source felt that. she right be a Jewess with some slavie backerround. <he appeared Intelli~ gent, cuick and effective, hectic, very egocentric and somewhat @omine ating. dhe was unusuelly talkative but a poor Listener, Jhe ajoke perfect American and, as far as the source was able to judge, with . a New York accent, and possessed the quick humor which is typtoal in pos bew York. She was dre:sed in a tailored coat of a greenish colour, - ge worn dress of poor quality, thick woolen stockings, flat and worm”. shoes. sdbe “> honed iach theta | . Me. BLOCK (iiis first name was not mentioned) might. be between | LO~k5. About 183 om tall, slender, blond hair. Colour of eyea nat: ‘ noticed. «ight be of Baltic descent. Appeared to be passive and not - particulirly intelligent. He spoke little - possibly because he was — _. interrupted by Mollie as a rule. Spoke definitely American but etta= * . @homally found it uifficult to find certain words. He wore an old . » Sixpence cap, a faded scarf and an old worn cout of grey and da aRK prey : herring bone patiern which be did not remove in the restaurant, 0 The daughter's first name seemed to be TINA. According te “ei ide ' Sig wes TE years old. Comparatively tall and slender. black he2y,. ": Large dark eyes, fine features with a sliphtly crooked mam and — . merhat sharp nose. She. appeared pretty, but. the source could. find oye. 80 real femily likeness between her andeither of the parenta, Very . “" ghildish, Spoke only Russian and kupt to Mollie the whole tine, “~ "Wore @ dark burgundy-coloured cost, pu. Mollie said thet the whole family was born in the U.d.A. and "Sad moetly lived in the fronx, New York, but also for a time ii tan Yransisco, About 4 years ago they had moved to the Joviet Unica and lived in Odessa, They were 6t111 american citizena. The source age pressed nla autonishaent at the fact that thie we poaaible, neg | Mollie reluctantly told tht br. vlock had been a member of tha Lope bidéen Amerionn Communist Party and that they had therefore pottien a . wea £2 the Joviet Union. , then the aource doubted that they suuid @bai4 he Axerican oitisens, Kom(lie said that thelr pagseportée wera in huscew & Sset which anyone could estaulian by referring ta the Amertauy Vongul, Amariesn Embaugy, eter Tajaysovaki Jtreet 19, Koagowe (ihe write dow OAL DESL a aemaeeteetinantene Boetectee Hin
14-00000 | aa, SECRET | ~}~ , the address and cave it te the 82 FCs.) Shortly after their arrival in dessa they realised thet this) Ws8 not when they tac expected, chey imzedistely bevan applying te Russian authorities for peraission to retum. ihe applications had |. been returned with v.rious cosaents, usually that they had to:¢o to i other Russian authorities. iis had gone on for Suveral years without’, giving any results. ihey had aliost resipned themselves, but if they™ were ever to retum to the U.3.4., they would settle quietly dom goneplace and not tell anyone that they ha: been in the wxaxute Soviet. . Union Hr, Block said that he was a "diesel engineer" and the conversa@ tim revealed that he k.éw a good deal about diesel machines, ‘le did not say where he worked, but complained that he was sent from job te dob without being eble to concentrate on a special arca as he had done in the ¥.3.A.. As a matter of fact this was an error in all of the wrking life in the Soviet Union, he said. Io one specialized and - no one cculd do a real job in a particular area. “ir, Block eamed something over 40 rubels per month. Mollie Block was a teacher at the polytechnical institute in Odessa. She eamed 40 rubels per month, A-chief at the polytechnical institute mxemix earned 90C rubels per month and had his om home - ty the Black Sea, she said bitterly, as an example of the fact that the class differences were ag great in the Joviet Union as in the U.S.A. Both told that they were unpopular among heir colleagues and among Russians in general because it was their custom to criticize conditions dn the Soviet Union. Had we not been American citizens we would have . been sent to Siberia long ago, said Mollie. Hoth despised Khrushchev. Conditions were no better now than under Stalin, they thought. “ow there Was corruption in all areas, Mollie said that only 34,4 of the popu= lation of the Soviet Union were accepted as members of the Communi st ., Party. No one got into the party without. having worked hard to do so; vu What Lf ons is the aon of a Party orticiy| Gpemp).it is easier to de so. Im the beginning the language had been. a difficulty ( in spite of the fact that they obviously must have had a knowledge of iiuesian be~ - fore their arrival in the Joviet Union.) "Russian has too many synomyme ,# / Ky, Block kept repeating while they talked about the languuge, On the other hand they had been fortunate and poten a two-roon oe spartnent for 19 rubele per nonth, It did not come out how, for example, .4 @ kitchen was euipped, but they considered themselvas lucky in comparison to Kusslans in comparable positions. ollie wrote dow: the. address: PEnETOPARUY POREDI 18, APT. 31, ODSIJA = id3a, snd the source * wad invited to vieit them or to urite to them, The swamer vacation thay had spent in a little rosert town in : ‘the vicinity of DATUM, ‘Thare the food = particularly fruit and yeres Gables = was much cheaper and Letter than in Udaeea, . SAO esac he ae nema me mea fe ge tetas we po e
14-00000 _ “SECRET whe Ye. Lieck complained particularly 2‘ cut the food in Odessa. de | ‘ had cifficulties with Lis cigestion Lecause of the black trea, he - claimed, It was not possible to zet nite br ad anywhere. except. dn Leningrad and..oscow and there where foreim surists scayed. He hat gotten. a shysiclarz's certificate saying that. he needed white bread, cut te ne avail. -here w.¢ alia a shortare of fruits and vege- tables in Jdessa except waen they were in svason tw. the surrounding agricultural districts. ‘Transport of such wares from distant places : ia the Joviet Union did not occur. 4 Sse eerie cgtine ves oo 2 & They talked a great deal about the U.3.4., and the source said ; that there was no‘doubt that ollie was--locally familiar with hew York,. - Fe, Qa one occasion the source mentioned the place ieehawken in connection — , 4 with New York. Mollie. corrected. him instantly, saying that sechawken = : : was on the other side of the Hud son River end therefore in the state of { New Jersey. : The deughter sat cuictly the entire time and stared straicht ahead. - Upon boing addressed politely by the source, she ciggled childishly. it is posaible that she. understood something, but she answered in Russian via her mther and said that the source ought to come home with them and sce her parrott.. _.. Molde asked several of the people at the hotel if they might get. caviar for tle: source, but with no result. fhe source and his quests left the. restaurant at closing time - (midnight local tims). tn the street iir, bleck tried to get a taxi for the source, but could net get one. Afterwards each went in his . OWA direction. ns fhe source was aware the entire time that the meeting. might have: ‘ - been erranged. However, he: found no real basia for this. a ‘Ha was also aware of some lesser irregularities. during the event, ‘but these could easily have had a natural explanstion. : ‘Phe source emphasizes that they asked him for no favors or asked: . dm to do nothing except visit then. chery showed no eurtosity, asked. little, and “ollie was too cecupiod with what she hereelf had on her. heart to listen cnd understand whet the source said, The couple had Ae reservations about eicohol and did not. react to the fact. that the + @ousce drank little and renained sober while they graduslly became ' quite animated, SECRET FG Rd an os Pe MEE tC RE eeM ER a tee
re ce co ne s ha US COUPER LENT st ree Ease | Co US. WUPLE LEAL “RES ih gntes te 7 a ple. fs , Wea ts Now Dened Boece, t The Rew tesa Tay MOSCOW, Apel fe eee: some Sutherties hawe retuseg 2° i visas te tue Vested States cits- + peng whe came ts ine Scvie: 3 Union as conveced Commurisis ; But whe have terome 6is-' i Mnsioned and wasi te go hea « Morrm Bhea and ba wor Moelne, tew New Yorvers ay: , in Odessa aay tue POdee a there turned down ther request! ; for visas a few werks age with: | : eut 8a explanation. | : tq making her applicatzon,! . Mrs. Block pleaded tet umens| - 3 . she were permitted te return): : A soon. she would probably acver} ° ° eee her parents again. She saudi * - : ? that her father. sae ceo : was seriously & a he bd . giment and that her mother . " = 5 m one eve, was in dang . sce ; Un.e@' Pres latormational Reawohewe * i ef losing her sight altogether. | AMERICANS RETURN RUSSIANS’ VISIT: James C. MeKe penned: 4. h : cHeaze, second from right, - _ Us. Officials Hopeful aad his wife, left, flank Me. and Mrs. Viktor Pozdneyev and daughter after arriving in; j United States consular offi. poncow by ae. A ets Ronald McCowaa ef Portamouth, Ohie, who helped arrange for * ? 7 : elais have on up the Blocks} Poecineyevs to visit McKenelen laat Chris euzies - . 3 . ; a a : : a : they were j.opeful the Coupe eled to Aloscow and applied to applications im the hope thatl sata, he traveled t the Nether. « , a { ; : would get permission to leave.|‘he United States Embassy fur;the intervention of the consulate/lands with i : Sf £ They confirmed that the/"W passports, iwould bring a k of | the ‘same passport . . 4 Blocks had valid papers identi-|,,78¢ embassy had to conzult! reversal of thuiafter having altered the date of° . 4 x fying them ax American citi-|\Vs*hington. Early tast sear, & Soviet decision, « expiration. Later in 1958, ofie* . ; 5 gens, . on was made. The en , . - . [Gals santiy a‘: i : . In the United States ar, ibsucd a new passport to ined 1S. Explains Help ~ passport by usin nee tained ae 4 5 : Block was alleged to have been|Block and issued te Mr. Block Gpecia’ to The New ers Times birth: & name and « ; fly involved in a number of passport|* document stating that he was|_ WASHINGTON, April 28 — evidence of his brother, 4 os + -—Midlations for which he might)t@ American citizen. [United | States otiicials "said Sarmed Bic ck j a ed if he returned, e ‘documenta, yY that Mr, Block mi the Blocks began to : 2 as troubles started in gog7iti Blocka applied for Soviet had F “tong history" of passport dif:|make efforts te return to the 4 when he traveled to Communist|"Xit Visas in Odessa last aumvificuitics, but that as a citizen|United States from the goviet, ns China in defiance of a State)™tr There was no answer injhe wes entitled te thele help in|Union, the United State Em: ‘ t ban, He was later|*Pite of dozens of visits to the|getting out of the Soviet Gato Smaked alleged to have attempted to Poe OY, Mes. Block. diva nate tefionlties: began,, they) travel abroad- on an altered " 5 % age, Mra] sa nm 1857, when he went ort and, on another occasion |Blck was told by the chief off41 other Ans 7 ine Since every citizen ts ena}: . have obtained a passport the passport division af thejternatlonal youth festival injtitied to diptom: and conef ° : Odessa paller that thel <osce ; a to diptematic +. . fraudulently Block tells theirl#d been relused iP requeat| Moscow on a tour of Communist! aular protection abroad, offie| ha. clais ee Beas “ROY ,iett the United Lant week they renewed thelr! In August, 1958, offictata!caigesis, Hhey had “no_alters J , F wnat i 3 sae ” but to assist the Bl Anewer Never Came Then the Blocks settled down walt for the anewer—whlel| paver came. ” After about a month, the cous ple and the Soviet offictal whe visited them portadically at their hotel agreed that they could not go on living at Movict Gove ernment expense Undefinitely, They decided. to mevept Buviat asylum instead af Chinese, . Ff. Biock had heen «a locke aa The offer waa accepted, ii fa aneen'e frie im = PY, ‘arsaw, the couple and thele locke were in if int small adopteq daughter wens: \ neo and 1,990 ribles amith it a New York ehipyard, LE ark Rey The Soviet, atfictal muageated Cy copa naan ees at he wath in Gie aaut j : ® gapacit a the port of Odeasa, _. THE NEW YORK TIMES z ftery dee ty Curniture, Ottiel fon & Polish Army trek alate asked them wheller they driven to the Baviel herder, gre egg Are oe Gt FE TE eR MONI UPB EL NEARER GATTO IAPR ERISRSE MEP, ARS OF SP Pee ot et 2 Ones wanted io beonine Mnviet itl ' da Maecow, the Foreign Min: na, ut Mra, Binck, whe waa i a put then in a downtown aginning tt have  secniied ae re. ae re . : Hal, Acoording to Mr Block heaugiite, answers that tiny oe “os . | t fre (how nied (9 wait at ieaal a year - foom and their meats and even! halove deciding, . ‘ WEGNESDAY, APAIL a, 1643. - ese them change der ineidental Her disappulutment grew pape ; [sett 4 a Raed, ity, My Belictary of the fattawe “ #, Diouk went ta ihe Chinese ing eer, sha anid, ahe waa A hasay and Aiplled tur “prs iver), very unhappy.” a eel farina China, The 1 Ha Bovaina iiieontiniteg Ff ef reauteat and eald lt vas is | But Morrla Mlowit yes wilt i} ee, Werdag aad Canunutiel, To a ime ; : Grit. 8 te Poking, 6a) view apa whieh  (utaee 5 z ad] filind, fia datiailiied Aniars : 2 : Ven avltuiriites fue having "pers . j : ww gecttod” hin and declared that : ‘ j . eee acting dawn in the , F ak Waitt ‘Thea, ® year er on latey, he hecanie dinaniiafied, i f hed with hla aupertare at the Seat ali, with party offle gale whe acinutated him and fie authinrities peapenatble far Rousing and fond diateitaition. 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