COMMUNIST DIPLOMATS
U.S. Extends Travel Ban (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. The United States today declared about 11 per cent of the country closed to travel by diplomats from five East European Communist countries to discourage spying. United Press International reported. At the same time the State Department revised its list of cities, counties and states which have been closed to travel by Soviet citizens since 1955. The revised list, as did the old one, closed about 26 per cent of the United States to the Russians.
Diplomats from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungarv. Poland and Rumania were summoned to the State Department one by one today and informed of the new regulations. The measure has been under intense debate in the Kennedy Administration. Military officials argued that the Soviet Union did not need to enter the areas closed to them because it could always send a Hungarian or Czech diplomat.
State Department officials opposed the measure. They said some East European countries recently had begun, or had indicated they would begin, easing restrictions on American travellers.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30288, 14 November 1963, Page 17
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