Over the past several years I have personally corresponded with Victor and Irina Brailovsky. Their history. the cause of Victors imprisonment. and the hardship of his 5year sentence seem so alien to us as Americans. Yet since Victor and his wife Irina Brailovsky first applied for exist visas in 1972. the Soviet leadership has continually taken away any personal freedoms the Brailovskys could have as Soviet Jews. Both Victor and Irina have been continually denied exit visas due to the Governments allegation that Irina had had access to secret information as a computer scientist at Moscow University. Coupled with this. Victor was fired from his job. isolated from telephone and mail service. and put under constant KGB survelliance.