Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency document, dated 21 December 1990 and approved for release in 2010, is a consolidated list of Soviet radio, television and TASS items monitored from Moscow that day. It summarizes coverage of Shevardnadze's resignation, the Congress of People's Deputies, the Persian Gulf, and the ROK president's visit, among other topics. A single science item notes a Radio Moscow answer on circles in British fields, mentioning speculation about UFOs and changing Soviet attitudes toward UFOs.
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listeners letters. (3 min: german 1600) 11 AMERICAS 12 10 anselmo septiem interviews radio moscow corr to costa rica, who reports on recent central american summit. (4 min: spanla 2300) 11 gaston vargas on latin american countries economic difficulties, recent eec, rio group foreign ministers meeting in rome and the resulting declaration of rome. (3 min: spanla 2300) 12 summary intvw with gaston pratgay, argentine amb to ussr. (rpt spanla 202300, item 11 on 20 dec list) (spancuba 0130) TB2212120090TAKE1 13 (vladimir boris) intvws two brazilian teachers on trial or chico mendes' murderers and disrespect for environment. (11 min: portbraz 2300) 14 leonid levchenko on first anniv u.s. invasion of panama. (rpt portbraz 202200, item 13 on 20 dec list) (spancuba 0130) 15 anselmo septiem intvws radio moscow corr (aleksandr gratov) on importance given in peru to need to preserve peruvian rights on antarctic continent. (3 min: spanla 2300) 19 GERMANY 20 16 intvw with cyril pech, head of soviet-germa friendship society in former gdr, with the interviewee informing that former dsf facilities are now called interclub houses, but continue to serve largely the same purpose. (3 min: german 1600) 21 17 "topical subject": presenting viktor glazunov on first all-germa parliamentary session in more than 50 myears held in the berlin reichstag building. reviewing the unification process, the author quotes willy brandt as referring to problems still ahead and, concluding his comment, says that in assessing the impact of edvuard shevardnadze's resignation on germany some journalists overstate the case by irresponsible talk of a return to the cold war days ignoring that shevardnadzes foreign policy would have been inconceivable without mikhail gorbachev whose course, glazunov says, can be relied upon to stay the same. (9 min: german 1700) 22 WEST EUROPE 23 18 aleksandr pogodin on conclusion of ec cncl session at foreign minister level in brussels. (rpt enginter 201210, item 17 on 20 dec list) (enginter 0910 spancuba 0130) 24 19 tass political analyst alebert balebanov on new aspects of european neutrality. (500 text sent: tasse 1630; 5 min: korean 0900) 25 20 tass corr mikhail ivanov on conclusion of the intl conf "europe speaks to europe," organized by moscow's intl center for sci-tech info and germany's comtech firm, citing remarks by alexander butrimenko, director of moscow center, at close of conference. (400 text: tasse 1950) 26 21 tass commentator vladimir bogachev on european tactical nuclear weapons talks. (3 min: turkish 1400) 27 22 aleksandr zholkver reviews last round of talks held in brussels on unification of eec and efta, noting both sweden and austria want to join eec, since their traditional neutrality will no longer be compromised. (3 min: home 1900) 28 23 "good evening, austria." (rpt germaust 191925, item 19 on 19 dec list) (germaust 1925) 29 AFRICA 30 24 "ussr-africa: contacts and contracts." (rpt engafr 191700, item 23 on 19 dec list) (engafr 1700) 31 25 "africa as we see it": oleg shelepin stressing unga's reaffirmed
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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. 10 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.