MONDAY, 11.52 A.M. Special Branch report re: Tour of Russia (departure from Hay’s Wharf, London) 22 May 1938 The following is a list of passengers, all travelling on return tickets between London and Moscow, who left this port for St. Petersburg at 10.15 p.m. today sailing on the steamer Smolny, and who are believed to be members of a party of doctors, scientists and economists visiting Moscow on a tour: . . . GALICH, Leo Borisovich, Jesus College, Cambridge University, Cambs; ticket no. 7941 . . . GALICH is of Russian nationality and is currently studying for a PhD in economics at Cambridge University. He has recently purchased various books on Soviet economic policy, also some technical engineering works. He is believed at present to be visiting Moscow as part of a British delegation to an economics conference at the university, but if and when he returns his description is: Born Leningrad, 20 May 1913, height 6ft 2ins, medium build, hair brown, eyes dark, complexion sallow, clean-shaven.
