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This FBIS London message, relayed through Joint Staff channels on 5 October 1990, carries a Moscow News report by D. Sidorov. It describes a planned Soviet bulletin, UFO and Anomalous Phenomena, edited by Sergey Rybakov, a former member of Felix Zigel's group at the Moscow Aviation Institute. The report says the state agency Soyuzpechat had not yet approved the bulletin and that the military might try to stop it. The first issue was to include cosmonaut transcripts and a story on the Bermuda Triangle.
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THE BULLETIN IS INTENDED AS A SERIOUS VENTU AND ALL THE INFORMATION IN IT WILL BE VERIFIED BEFORE PUBL TION. THIS WILL INVOLVE CHECKING ON EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF UFO'S THROUGH CROSS- EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES. THREE OF THE TEN-STRONG EDITORIAL STAFF WILL COMPILE UP-TO-THE MINUTE NEWS ITEMS AND WILL VISIT AREAS WHERE UFO SIGHTING HAVE BEEN REPORTED. "WE HAVE ENOUGH PAPER FOR THE NEXT TWO MONTHS," SAYS RYBAKOV. "AFTER THAT, WE'LL START HUNTING FOR MORE." NO PREMISES HAVE YET BEEN FOUND FOR THE EDITORIAL OFFICE. ANOTHER POSSIBLE OBSTACLE FACING THE BULLETIN IS THE MILITARY, WHO MIGHT USE THE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS AS A METHOD OF OBTAINING NEW INFORMATION ABOUT UFOS, AND PROHIBIT THEIR OPEN PUBLICATION AND SALE. RYBAKOV - WHO HAS NEVER HIMSELF SEEN AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT - STUDIED AT THE MOSCOW AVIATION INSTITUTE WHERE HE WAS A MEMBER OF A GROUP HEADED BY FELIX ZIGEL, WHO FOUNDED UFO STUDIES IN THE SOVIET UNION. HE THEN WENT TO WORK AT ONE OF MOSCOW'S CLOSED AVIATION DESIGN BUREAUS. BUT UFOS REMAINED A CONSUMMING INTEREST AND HE DID NOT HESITATE TO LEAVE HIS JOB WHEN THE INTERPRINT JOINT VENTURE SUGGESTED THAT HE ESTABLISH A BULLETIN. FROM THE BEGINNING, THE PLAN HAS BEEN TO USE THE PROCEEDS FROM THE BULLETIN TO SET UP A RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF UFOS. HOWEVER, INTEPRINT WERE NOT PREPARED TO INVEST THE NECESSARY 100,000 ROUBLES REQUIRED TO START THE PROJECT, LEAVING RYBAKOV AS BOTH OWNER AND EDITOR. "IF THE PUBLICATION GOES BANKRUPT, I'LL TRY TO FIND SOME OTHER WELL-PAID JOB," HE SAYS. HOWEVER, HE IS CONFIDENT THAT THE BULLETIN WILL SELL. ITS NEAREST RIVAL, THE BALTIC NEWSPAPER EMSKIY TRIANGLE, COSTS THREE ROUBLES, WHEREAS UFO AND ANOMALOUR PHENOMENA WILL COST ABOUT 50 KOPEKS. IF SOYUZPECHAT CONTINUE REFUSING TO DISTRIBUTE THE BULLETIN, THEN THE JOB WILL BE UNDERTAKEN BY PRIVIATE INDIVIDUALS. "IF THINGS GO WELL, WE WANT TO ENTER THE WORLD MARKET, HE SAYS. "OUR PUBLICATION WILL BE TRANSLATED INTO SEVERAL LANGUAGES." ADMIN (ENDALL) 28 SEP-4 OC1 BT #6696 NNNN
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.