Washington, Jan. 2, Charles Hart, a former newspaper correspondent "and more recently American Minister to Albania, is now approaching Teheran, the! capital of Persia, on an automobile tip through Soviet Russia, He is making a first-hand study of conditions in the USSR.
The trip was made with the full Knowledge of the State Department, although his. itinerary was not} mapped out there.
It is, however, believed that the' trip offers the first good opportunity the State Department has had during: the past 10 years to obtain practi~ ally official reports from inside the Soviet Union—United Press.
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