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Russian news dispatches censorship lifted:; ***ALSO AVAILABLE AT FS230361007*** ENGLAND: ITN Studio: INT Cyril Ray (Former Moscow correspondant) interview SOF - It certainly wasn't a security censorship because no foreign journalist would ever have got a story that would endanger Soviet security / it was a censorship designed to prevent the outside world being told or suggested to the outside world that everything inside the Soviet Union wasn't hygenic, humane, wholesome and cultured / they were very touchy about being thought inferior by the outside world Q: How did the censorship work in practise - Oh that was maddening because everything you wrote you had to submit in triplicate and it took hours, days, weeks sometimes before you got your copy back / if it was an airmail story you had to re-type it so that the censor's cuts wouldn't show when they got to Fleet Street and to telephone a story you had to submit the script beforehand, you had to telphone from a specified kiosk in the Central Telephone office and it was monitored and if you deviated from the script you were cut off Q: What would be the difference now in the stories that we read - I don't think there will be any enormous difference yet for a time because there is no opposition there so there is no chance of correspondents talking to opposition politicians and giving a view opposite to that of the regime nor do I think the ordinary Soviet citizen will talk much yet to the foreign correspondent but I think you will get less limited reporting of the Soviet scene, you will get lively stories about what it's like to live in Moscow Neg 16mm ITN(Grant) 1.32mins 57.5ft 23.3.61 5.55pm