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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
mailing address: University of Utah
Marriott Library 444
295 S 1500 E RM DOCK
Salt Lake City UT 84112-0860
(801)581-7533 fax (801)585-3464
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