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Anatoly P. Aleksandrov
President
Academy of Sciences of the USSR
V-71, Leninsky Prospekt 14
Moscow 117901, GSP-1
RSFSR, USSR

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Dear President Aleksandrov:

I am writing to you on behalf of our colleague, Dr. Y. Eliashberg, who has
applied for exit visas six times in the past seven years as a Jew wanting to
emigrate. He has been refused each time without receiving any explanation.
He also lost his job and was unable to find another for two years,
apparently as punishment for expressing the desire to emigrate.

Throughout his seven year ordeal, Dr. Eliashberg has continued working
independently in Geometry. He has even managed to publish his results
regularly. Clearly, this man wants passionately to work in Mathematics.

Dr. Eliashberg knows no state secrets, has never held a security clearance,
is not a dissident, has no desire to slander the USSR. His work is purely
thoeretical. He and his family simply want to leave their situation as
Soviet Jews to reunite with Dr. Eliashberg's ailing mother and the rest of
his family, who were allowed to emigrate in 1975. He is now making
preparations to apply again for exit visas.

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There exist no legal grounds for keeping him in the Soviet Union against his
clearly pronounced wish to emigrate. I am extremely concerned about his
situation and I urge you to use your influence to resolve this case and to
remove in this way one of the obstacles to full scale international
collaboration between mathematicians.

Thank you for your cooperation.

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Sincerely,       

John McCarthy    
Professor of Computer Science
Stanford University
Stanford, California

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