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Plans for a one-week visit of twenty-one Soviet engineers and teachers to Harvard and M.I.T. will proceed according to schedule despite the recent arrest of Yale Professor Fredrick C. Barghoorn in Russia on espionage charges, and the numerous protests his arrest has fomented...
Reaction of the academic community to Barghoorn's arrest has, however, been violent. Students and faculty at Yale have organized a committee to protest the action. The Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, representing 37 universities, has requested that the State Department postpone indefinitely negotiations on a new cultural exchange agreement between the United States and the U.S.S.R. The University of Maryland and Georgetown University have already canceled plans to receive Russian visitors...
...Barghoorn, a specialist in Russian affairs, was on sabbatical from Yale and was travelling alone in Russia as a tourist, gathering material for a book, when state security agents arrested him in Moscow. The Associated Press reported that the arrest "provoked astonishment in Western quarters" since Barghoorn's activities dealt primarlly with cultural affairs...
...Barghoorn's brother, Elso S. Barghoorn, professor of Botany here at Harvard, said he couldn't imagine any reason for the arrest of his brother unless it was in retaliation for the arrest of three Russians Oct. 29 in Englewood, N.J. He ruled out the possibility that his brother was being held on the usual espionage charge of photographing military installations since his brother made a point of not carrying a camera while in the U.S.S.R...
...Barghoorn, a member of Yale's political science department, was attached to the U.S. embassy from 1942 to 1947 and had traveled extensively in the country previously. Last spring, he toured Russia with a group of students...