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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decisions on rsa remain unchanged, despite de klerk's determination to eliminate apartheid but developments do not depend on him alone (3 min); aleksey litvinov on annual population growth in gambia, deals with influence of demography on situation in that country, noting by 1997 there will be 90 people per square km and problems this will impose on country (4.5 min). (engafr 1700 2000) 26 vladislav chernukha on situation in angola and prospects for cease-fire between govt forces and unita. (rpt enginter 201210, item 33 on 20 dec list) (enginter 0910 engna 0000) 27 intvw with soviet author who studied history of ghana during colonial period, on his latest book. (7 min: engafr 1830) 28 "russians abroad, program about links between russia and south africa, giving story of aleksandr guchkov, a moscow merchant's son, who fought inboer war, noting his experiences in south africa made him believe there should be democratic reshaping of russia's political system, quoting kirill guchkov, who lives in moscow and whose grandfacter was aleksandr's brother, saying his family closely follows events in south africa and are concerned about interrethnic clashes there. (8 min: engafr 1700) TB2212120190TAKE2 PERSIAN GULF 29 gorbachev greetings to participants in summit of cooperation cncl for arab states of gulf member-states, held in doha. (200 text sent: tasse 1826 tassr 1750; brief: tv 1800 spanla 2300 portbraz 2300) 30 tass round-up on events in gulf. (approx 550 words: tassr 1131) 31 oleg shchedrov on gulf situation. (rpt enginter 201210, item 40 on 20 dec list) (enginter 0910 engna 0000 spancuba 0130) 32 mikhail mayorov on implications of shevardnadze's resignation on soviet gulf policy. (5-4 min, sent: enginter 1510 spanla 2300 portbraz 2300 german 1600 turkish 1400 persian 1500 dari 1500 somali 1600 bulgarian 1700 romanian 1700 polish 1600 serbo 1700 camb 1230 mand 1400 lao 1300 urdu 1300 tamil 1400 indo 1300 1500 bur 1430) 41 MIDEAST 42 33 undatelined tass report on palestine reaction to un resolution. (approx 850 words: tassr 0955) 34 tass corr mikhail kochetkov un report on unsc's approval of palestinian resolution on israel occupied territories. (500 text sent: tasse 1006) 35 aleksandr pogodin on adoption by unsc of a resolution in defense of palestinian arabs in israeli occupied territories. this time american delegation agreed to condemn its key strategic ally in mideast. details of provisons of draft given, unsc chairman's stmt quoted on need for mideast conference. (4-3 min: spanla 2300 portbraz 2300 german 1600 arabic 1500 persian 1500 dari 1500 greek 2100 turkish 1400 bulgarian 1700 urdu 1300) 36 review of soviet press reports about events in middle east: soviet magazine considers that iraq could determine whether there will be war in gulf or not, soviet newspaper attached great attention to bendjedid's tour of arab countries to find political solution for gulf crisis; soviet newspapers also covered events in occupied territories. (5 min: arabic 1500) 46 37 "palestinian arab people's corner": review of events in occupied territories: general strike caused by expulsion of palestinians; demonstrations and clashes with israeli forces, in an interview with radio corr palestinian journalist ahmad abbas stressed that the intifadah will continue (3 min); palestinian patriotic song; on occasion of 11th
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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.