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>Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:39:35 MST7MDT
>From: BARBARA COX <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Moscow city map by CIA
 
 
 
Short, interesting article found while looking for something else.
http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/97unclas/balawski.html
 "The best map of Moscow"/ Joseph A. Baclawski . Studies in
Intelligence, 1997.
        U.S. Embassy personnel  serving in Moscow in the 1950s found
that, like tourists and local inhabitants, they were hindered by the
lack of an  accurate, detailed street map of the city. This article
tells how the CIA compiled, updated  and issued what was for many
years one of the few publicly available maps of the Russian capital.
        BTW, now that Russian maps are being sold we can see that the
USSR mapped many western cities in detail during the Cold War.
Why did they bother?-- they could have easily bought equivalent
maps  in many of these cities or on a binge at Edward Stanfords in
London.  Did they need to have Cyrillic transliterations and
legends? To save hard currency?
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     Barbara Cox        [log in to unmask]
     Earth sciences / Map librarian
     Science and Engineering Division
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