Today. I would like once again to speak about Prof. Nahum Meiman. a Soviet Jew and a mathematical scientist who has been actively seeking an exit visa since 1974. Professor Meimans case is representative of the harassment and threats to which Soviet scientists have been subjected in their struggle for basic human rights. In 1935. Nahum Meiman received the highest degree awarded in the Soviet Union. doctor of physical and mathematical sciences. He is widely known for his pioneering work in quantum field theory and he worked at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow until his dismissal. When Professor Meiman decided to emigrate from the Soviet Union. his application was denied on the grounds that he "possessed state secrets." In a letter to the late Leonid Brezhnev. Meiman explained that the only time in his career that he dealt with classified subjects was in the years 1948 to 1955. when he worked on militaryrelated theoretical calculations at the Institute of Physical Problems of the Academy of Sciences. Since the research had been conducted more than 25 years earlier. and had then been published in widely circulated journals. it could hardly be characterized as "state secrets." Meiman appealed: I declare categorically and can prove convincingly that I do not possess any state secrets... I am afraid that the possession of secret information of which I am being accused is not the real reason for denying me a visa... but is only a pretext. Recently. Ms.
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