President. I rise today to call the Senates attention to a little noticed story out of the former Soviet Union that should be of concern to us all. According to the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. hundreds of people in the presentday Commonwealth of Independent States [CIS] who had worked in various Soviet agencies. are still being denied permission to emigrate on the basis of state secrets. This intolerable situation continues despite the fact that much of the technology previously considered secret is now being hawked on the open market to the highest bidder. in the Commonwealths relentless pursuit of hard currency. This situation continues despite the socalled reforms in the Commonwealth on emigration. The cold. hard facts are that state secrecy is still used as an arbitrary catchall mechanism to punish those people who wish to emigrate. Mr. President. I have been working on behalf of free emigration for Soviet Jews throughout my career. As a past cochairman of the unions Congressional Call to Conscience Vigil. I know all too well the intransigence of the former Soviet system.
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