DEAR MR. SECRETARY: We are writing to request that you allow Dr. Viktor Brailovsky. who has been invited to speak as a guest lecturer at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. his wife Irina. and their children Leonid and Dalia. along with Irinas mother Fana Feffer. to emigrate and rejoin Viktors brother Mikhail in Israel. The Brailovsky family first applied for permission to emigrate over fifteen years ago. on March 10. 1972. and received notification of their refusal in January. 1973. Eleven years ago. in 1976. Viktor and Irina requested an official explanation for their refusal. At that time. they were told the reason was that Irina had access to secret information through her job at the Computing Centre of the Moscow State University. Permission to emigrate has been denied despite the fact that Professor Anatoly Lugunov. the former University Rector. has confirmed that Irinas work had not been secret and despite your statements during an interview on French television in October. 1985. that no one would be denied an exit visa due to state security reasons for a period longer than five years. ten at the most. This promise was reiterated at your April meeting with Speaker of the House Jim Wright and his delegation. Viktor and Irina Brailovsky both lost their jobs after they first applied for exit visas in 1972. Neither has worked in any capacity which would give them access to secrets in the past fifteen years. Granting the Brailovskys request to emigrate would add to the growing momentum of improvement in relations between our two countries. We hope you will review the Brailovskys long standing case and grant their request for exit visas. Sincerely.
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