To: john drake
"During the Cold War, did we let Russians or satellite communist country citizens into the U.S.?"
Yes, on Business Visas and Americans were allowed over there on business visas also.
My first trip was to the University of Geophysics in Brno, Czechoslovakia in the late sixties.
161 posted on
05/20/2006 6:55:29 PM PDT by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Understood regarding Americans going overseas in a highly selective process I suspect, maybe a few thousand a year that were greatly monitored, correct? What about the reciprocal?
240 posted on
05/21/2006 4:12:49 AM PDT by
john drake
(roman military maxim: "oderint dum metuant, i.e., let them hate, as long as they fear")
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