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This CIA-distributed JPRS report, dated 1 April 1993, translates an Argumenty i Fakty interview by D. Makarov with V. Ivanov, commander of Russia's Military Space Forces. Ivanov discusses the effects of the Soviet collapse, control complexes transferred to Ukraine, staffing and funding problems at Baykonur, and civilian uses of space. On UFOs, he says northern sightings studied by an institute coincided with Plesetsk launches, but notes three unexplained radar objects near Baykonur about five years earlier.
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## Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1993 Document 11 of 19 Page 1 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Status: [STAT] Document Date: 01 Apr 93 Category: [CAT] Report Type: JPRS report Report Date: Report Number: JPRS-UMA-93-014 UDC Number: Author(s): D. Makarov; place and date not given: ''Space and the UFO''] Headline: Space Forces Chief on Funding, Baykonur Source Line: 934K0975A Moscow ARGUMENTY I FAKTY in Russian No 16, Apr 93 p 5 Subslug: [Interview with V. Ivanov, Military Space Force commander, by D. Makarov; place and date not given: "'Space and the UFO''] FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Interview with V. Ivanov, Military Space Force commander, by D. Makarov; place and date not given: ''Space and the UFO''] 2. [Text] 3. [Makarov] All our lives we have been accustomed to taking pride in our achievements in space. It has been instilled in us that we are the best in the world. Now we have lost almost all our illusions from the Soviet period. Well, is at least this illusion really true? 4. [Ivanov] In general I have never said that we were the best in the world. We simply did our work, but the fact that in terms of a number of systems we are indeed ahead of the Americans has always been apparent both to them and to us. 5. [Makarov] How did the collapse of the USSR affect the Military Space Forces? 6. [Ivanov] In the past our units were distributed through what are now five states: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Belarus. Space forces subdivisions are now located only in Russia and Kazakhstan. We used to have an arsenal in Belarus but we turned it over to the Belarusians and left there. In Uzbekistan we had a high mountain command-measurement complex. 7. At first the Uzbek government stated that it had no claims to this arsenal, that it would remain in the Military Space Forces of Russia, but then it decided differently. Now almost all the Russian officers have left there. At the present time, however, we are developing a document concerning the creation of a Russian-Uzbek
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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.