SOVIET HUNTING SOCIETIES
Originator: CIA
To: MEMO FOR THE RECORD
Document date: 07/30/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

30 July 1964

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MEMO FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Soviet Hunting Societies

1. At the request a C/SR/CI on 29 July 1964, efforts were made

to assemble avail: ble information on soviet hunting clubs or societies.

The following sources were tapped:

a.

Defectors -

1) Deryabin - he is on leave and unavailable. The index

to Di-? and SR CE-2 reports was reviewed, but no pertinent reports

found.

2) Rastvorov - contacted by phone. He stated that he

has no information on the subject. he never belonged to one, and had

been hunting only once in his life. He did not feel that a discussion

in person would be fruitful since anything else he might say would be

a "poor guess."

3) Kaznachayev - Contacted in person by Bob Steele.

Kaznachayev had no information. At the age of ll he had known a hunter,

but that is the extent of his contact with the sport.

4) Victor Petrov - Peter Kapusta acquired a four page

commentary from Petrov and possibly another defector colleagae. It

is being translated by Serge Savitskiy.

5) Artamonor - Contacted by Peter Klapusta in person.

Peter will write up the conversation and provide it today early.

b. The manual of library acquisitions was reviewed and the

only noted periodical relating to hunting was "Okhota 1 Okhotnich'ye

Khozyaystvo" which published monthly. The July l964 issue was borrowed.

A Soviet book listing all(?) periodicals was checked and no publications

on hunting were found under the sections which included "spo-t" and

"Hunting."

Sorlet Prosal turned opy otal ned

c. A review of the past twelve issues of the "Survey of the

Soviet Press" turned up an item about Turkman SSR intensifying controls

on hunting weapons.

do

After phone discussion with Dan Bowanko of ISD, I went over

instruction booklet furnished by the manufacturer with 3! shotg ns.

e. Al Valpey of OCI was asked about sources of information,

buthe could suggest only an Intellofax run. Hunthly is on leave.

The Intellotax section of the library was conta:ted by phone.

The represent ative said that there was no catagory on hunting and that

they could only get a run on "sport." Theyd would check and call back.

THEy DiO. THEy CAM'T DO R'RUu" ON HUNTiNG.

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