The Guests in the Basement

“It is also wrong, and patently unfair, to imply that we in the Embassy are indifferent to the plight of these people, and indeed of others like them in the Soviet Union. I can assure you that the U.S. Government is deeply concerned about these families, and is continuing to do everything it can to help them.”

—Thomas R. Hutson, AmericanConsul, U.S. Embassy, Moscow