U.S. CITIZENSHIP CHANGE
Typist Given Soviet Passport
(Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 12. A suspended United Nations employee astonished members of a Senate Security Sub-committee today by claiming that she had switched from American to Russian citizenship merely bv obtaining a passport from the Soviet Embassy in Washington. A Chicago born typist, Miss Olga Michka, said she was now trying to obtain a visa so that she could take her Russian-born mother to the Soviet Union to live. The chairman of the committee, Senator Pat McCarran. said that there should be an immediate Congressional investigation of the case, which was described by counsel as unprecedented. , Senator McCarran said: “If this can take place, if the Soviet can make citizens by handing out passports promiscuously in the United States, the Congress of the United States had better look into it, and fast.” I
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26887, 13 November 1952, Page 9
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