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This 11 June 1993 JPRS translation, released by the Central Intelligence Agency, covers reader letters that the Moscow newspaper Rossiyskiye Vesti printed for its Operation Radiation. That campaign gathered public reports of radioactive contamination. The letters cover harm from nuclear weapons production in the Urals and a uranium deposit near the Karintorf settlement. They also warn about nuclear power plants along the Volga. One letter looks at rumors of an accident at Tomsk-7 that were traced to mediums, clairvoyants and claimed telepathic contact with aliens. It also mentions UFO researchers who forecast an accident at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant.
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## UNCLASSIFIED ## Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1993 Document 19 of 19 a mental hospital. But what if he had attracted attention to his dream? It is said that dreams whose content is revealed never come true... 13. Two such accidents that never happened are described below. On 12 February 1992 SOVETSKAYA ROSSIYA published an article by I. Zhukov titled 'Alarm Predicted,' which made references to the 'St. Petersburg departments' that ridiculed with relish the unsuccessful forecasters, calling them 'publicity-seeking UFO watchers,' and asserted that the leadership of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant was intending to go to the procurator about the alarming rumors spread by K. Butusov, the leader of the team of UFO researchers. The interesting question is this: How far did the leadership get before 24 March, when the third power unit of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant underwent an emergency shut-down, in which radioactive products were released into the atmosphere? 14. Note that information about the forthcoming accident was made public, the most persistent public attention was directed at it, and the accident did not occur at the predicted time. And the fact that it happened later on anyway permits the suggestion that attraction of attention to it '' forced'' it to proceed according to a '' milder '' scenario. We find confirmation of this suggestion, which appears strange at first glance, in an analysis of the Tomsk accident. 15. The Siberian Chemical Works, which produce weapon-grade plutonium, are located in the city of Tomsk-7, less than 30 kilometers from the oblast center of Tomsk. The accident that occurred in 1993 in the radiochemical plant of these works caused the entire world to shudder: 'A second Chernobyl!' the newspaper headlines shouted. It was soon revealed that the newspapers had overreacted somewhat, but who is about to throw stones at them, considering that everyone remembers the criminal way in which the scale of the Chernobyl catastrophe was concealed, causing people to mistrust official information for a long time to come? And besides that, many still have memories of the terrible rumors about an impending superlarge accident at the Siberian Chemical Works. 16. Beginning in October 1989, Tomsk was literally engulfed by a wave of hysteria regarding an impending nuclear explosion at Tomsk-7. The local newspapers published numerous articles on this topic. 17. These rumors did not circulate in Tomsk alone. I personally heard them in Moscow at the "'Bioenergoinform-89'" conference in fall 1989 from Eduard Yermilov, chairman of the Nizhegorod section of the Commission to Study Anomolous Phenomena under the All-Union Council of Scientific and Technical Societies, who reported that according to information received by the commission, Natalya P., a medium from the
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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. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.