Documents / FOIA release
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.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
BRUTALITY AND CYNICISM ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS FOR SOCIETY. "ALL THIS INTIMIDATES PEOPLE MORALLY. THAT IS WHY THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET AND THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO ENLIST KGB OFFICERS IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST ORGANISED CRIME. KGB OFFICERS ARE SKILLED PROFESSIONALS HAVING LEGAL KNOWLEDGE AND ADEQUATE TECHNICAL FACILITIES. "BUT LAW AND ORDER IN SOCIETY CANNOT BE ESTABLISHED ONLY BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. ENTIRE SOCIETY SHOULD POOL EFFORTS TO DO THIS. THE BEGINNING STRUGGLE AGAINST CRIME IS ANOTHER SERIOUS TEST WHICH WE HAVE TO UNDERGO FOR THE SAKE OF PERESTROYKA." THE NEWSPAPER KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA FRONT-PAGES A DISPATCH BY ITS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT FROM VORONEZH WHERE HE DESCRIBES, REFERRING TO EYE-WITNESSES, THE APPEARANCE OF AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT IN THE CITY ON SEPTEMBER 27. THE NEWSPAPER PRINTS A FEATURE ON ITS BACK PAGE ON UFO RIDDLES AND ENTHUSIASTS STUDYING THE PROBLEM. THE NEWSPAPER SOVETSKAYA ROSSIYA CARRIES AN ARTICLE ON THE WORK OF AN INTERNATIONAL ROUNDTABLE AT THE SOVIET NUCLEAR SOCIETY, WHICH FOCUSSED ON RELIABILITY AND SAFETY OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. THE NEWSPAPER KRASNAYA ZVEZDA RUNS AN ARTICLE BY A POLISH MILITARY DIPLOMAT, BRIGADIER GENERAL A. CZERNOW, ON THE HISTORY, PAST EXPLOITS AND THE PRESENT DAY OF THE POLISH ARMY ON THE OCCASION OF THE 46TH ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDING THE POLISH ARMED FORCES. ADMIN (ENDALL) 120624 12/0659Z OCT BT #5501 NNNN
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.