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Tass Reviews Soviet Central Press for 12 Oct

Central Intelligence Agency · 1989-10-12 · 3 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This is an unclassified FBIS London cable dated 12 October 1989 and relayed through the Joint Staff. It carries a TASS English-language review of the Soviet central press for that day. Most of the review covers Gorbachev's meeting with Polish leader Mieczyslaw Rakowski, parliamentary budget debates, railway sabotage affecting Armenia and Georgia, and the KGB's role against organised crime. It also notes a Komsomolskaya Pravda front-page dispatch from Voronezh, based on eyewitnesses, about a UFO seen in the city on 27 September.

  • p. 1 …THE USSR AND POLAND, THE DEVELOPMENT OF COOPERATION IN THE TWO FRATERNAL PARTIES AND PROSPECTS FOR…

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SUBJ: TASS REVIEWS SOVIET CENTRAL PRESS FOR 12 OCT

SOURCE: MOSCOW TASS IN ENGLISH 0624 GMT 12 OCT 89

TEXT:

((("PRESS REVIEW" -- TASS HEADLINE))

((TEXT)) MOSCOW OCTOBER 12 TASS -- PRAVDA REPORTS TODAY A MEETING HELD ON WEDNESDAY BETWEEN SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV AND MIECZYSLAW RAKOWSKI, FIRST SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE POLISH UNITED WORKERS' PARTY (PUWP), WHO ARRIVED IN THE SOVIET UNION ON A WORKING VISIT.

DURING THE FRIENDLY MEETING THE TWO SIDES DISCUSSED A WIDE RANGE OF ISSUES CONCERNING SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PROCESSES IN THE USSR AND POLAND, THE DEVELOPMENT OF COOPERATION IN THE TWO FRATERNAL PARTIES AND PROSPECTS FOR SOVIET-POLISH RELATIONS.

RAKOWSKI DESCRIBED THE SITUATION IN POLAND SINCE THE ELECTION TO THE SEJM AND THE FORMATION OF NEW GOVERNMENT. THE KEY NATIONAL TASK NOW IS TO PULL THE COUNTRY OUT OF THE LENGTH SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS. THE PUWP INTENDS TO INTERACT IN A RESPONSIBLE AND CONSTRUCTIVE WAY WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND VARIOUS POLITICAL FORCES IN

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Cases discussed

  • Voronezh UFO Incident 1989
    dispatch from Voronezh describing an unidentified flying object in the city on September 27

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