Brodetsky House 804
36 Brodetsky Street
Ramat-Aviv, Tel-Aviv
ISRAEL

August 22, 1975

Professor F.H.C.Crick
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
University Postgraduate Medical School
Hills Road, Cambridge, CBZ 2QH
England

Dear Professor Crick,

   I and my wife were released from the Soviet Union
about three months ago but it was not until1 Eddie Goldberg
sent me a copy of your letter to Podgorny in my behalf
that I learned about your part in this rescue operation.

   I should like to thank you very much for your con-
cern and support, Contrary to your doubts that you expressed
in your letter to Eddie I can assure you that it did much
good though it took several months for the Russian autho-
ritiss to decide to let me go. I am absolutely sure that
it were th$se letters sent by you and other prominant bio-
logists around the world which led to my release and,what
is more important, protected me from the police harassement
when I was in Moscow. Actually,  a KGB officer told me this
spring that they will jail me in spite of the letters of
"your Nobelists" which means that they could not do this
for this very reason.

   Mow we are staying in an absorbtion center studying
Hebrew. I will resume my work on RNA polymerase which
is necessary to complete my Ph. D. thesis soon, most pro-
bably in the Dept. of Biochemistry of the Weizmann Insti-
tute.

With many thanks again and warmest regards,

Yours sincerely,
c,tJbJL .
Aleck Goldfarb