Scholokov had nothing to do with my membership on the Interior Committee. as his responsibilities are of quite another order than those of Secretary Rogers Morton. In the Soviet Union. the Minister of the Interior might be described as the man who is in charge of the Gulag Archipelago. He is also the man in charge of issuing exit permits to those seeking to exercise their human right of emigration. a right that the Jackson amendment to the trade bill now in conference seeks to translate into meaningful reality. I told Mr. Scholokov that I had sought the meeting for several reasons: First. I had been given. prior to my departure for the Soviet Union. the names of a number of Lithuanians and Ukrainians who have been seeking permission to leave the Soviet Union and join relatives now living in the United States. and I had been asked to make a plea on their behalf to a high official of the Soviet Union. Second. I had been asked to plead for a cessation of the harassment visited upon Soviet Jews seeking to emigrate to Israel. Third. I had been asked to intercede on behalf of two individuals now in Soviet prisons who were reported to be on the verge of death.
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