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This Central Intelligence Agency intelligence report was disseminated on 10 January 1990 and covers information dated September 1989. It describes the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, including its size, research areas, funding and interest in cooperating with the United States. It notes that the Academy has several organizations that follow the subject of unidentified flying objects and that some scientists consider it a serious problem. The report also covers the Antonov Aircraft Design Bureau and the Kiev Aircraft Factory's shift to making consumer goods.
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THE SERVICE LIFE OF THE PLANE IS 35,000 FLIGHTS. PRODUCTION OF THE AN-26 BEGAN IN 1975 WHEN AN-24 PRODUCTION WAS STOPPED. SOME 1,400 AN-26 AIRCRAFT HAD BEEN PRODUCED AS OF SEPTEMBER 1989. BOTH PLANES ARE EXPORTED TO AFRICA, ASIA, PERU AND EASTERN EUROPE. THE FACTORY ALSO MAKES SEVERAL MODELS OF THE AN-30 AIRCRAFT, USED FOR FISH RECONNAISSANCE, FIRE FIGHTING, AND OVERHEAD PHOTOGRAPHY. THE AN-124 AIRCRAFT HAS BEEN PRODUCED SINCE 1984 IN SERIAL PRODUCTION, AND CAN BE EASILY CONVERTED FROM CIVILIAN TO MILITARY USE. THE CURRENT PRODUCTION RATE IS THREE PER YEAR. 5. THE KIEV AIRCRAFT FACTORY NOW PRODUCES CONSUMER GOODS SUCH AS WASHING MACHINES, BABY CARRIAGES, MEDICAL PRODUCTS, DENTIST CHAIRS, BAROMETRIC CHAMBERS, AND SPECIAL MACHINERY FOR CANNING FOOD. THE FACTORY IS RETRAINING ITS PERSONNEL TO PRODUCE THESE CONSUMER GOODS, AND IT IS USING COMPUTERS, INCLUDING COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING, TO SOLVE DESIGN AND FABRICATION PROBLEMS. THE PRODUCTION RATE OF VARIOUS ITEMS IS DETERMINED BY THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, AND THE PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT PERFORMS QUALITY CONTROL ON THE INPUTS AND ALL FINISHED PRODUCTS. THE FACTORY IS USING SOME ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY FOR ASSEMBLY, BUT HAS 16,000 EMPLOYEES. THE FACTORY PRODUCED 19 MILLION RUBLES WORTH OF CONSUMER GOODS IN 1988 AND 21 MILLION RUBLES IN 1989. PRODUCTION OF CONSUMER GOODS AND AIRCRAFT IS MANAGED BY A SINGLE PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR. ADMIN ACQ; (EARLY DECEMBER 1989). DISSEM: FIELD: NONE.
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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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.