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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86 SPACE/SCIENCE 87 69 "world of soviet sci-tech". (rpt bulgarian 191700, item 75 on 19 dec list) (bulgarian 1700) 70 "science and engineering": anon on new soviet of diagnosing kidney disease, quoting (dr shchapiro) responsible for its inception (7 min); boris belitskiy answers listeners questions on causes of circles in british fields, noting u.s. speculation that they could be caused by winds, pranksters or even ufo's, also commenting on changing soviet attitudes toward ufo's with increasing interest on scientific basis (5 min) (engna 0000); adding boris belitskiy acknowledging listeners on various issues pertaining to MIR, german listener advised of soviet exhibits devoted to gagarin (5.5 min). (enginter 0730 engna 2300 enginter 1210) 89 NATIONALITIES 90 71 anon interview with rsfsr premier ivan silayev, assuring foreign companies intending to set up joint enterprises in ussr that they will not end up bankrupt. (7 min sent: russinter 1030) 91 72 tass corrs pavel ostrov and yuriy kozmin on 21 dec plenary session of russian parliament, which adopted law on social development of countryside. (320 text sent: tasse 0830) 92 73 aleksandr ikonnikov interview with rsfsr supsov chairman boris yeltsin, noting that rsfsr will act in line with people's congress decision setting up commission to prepare draft of its own. (5 min: german 1600) 93 74 tass interview with colonel (zemitsov), representative of border guards of committee for state security, on estonia's intention to form its own border guards. (brief: enginter 1200 1300 1400 1500) 94 75 tass corr kazis uscila klaipeda dispatch on situation at this lithuanian port, quoting interviews with chairman of city council v. vepas and commander of soveit army garrison col i. chernykh, giving differeing opinions of armed patrols in klaipeda. (350 text sent: tasse 1622) 95 76 fourth in series izvestiya on economic reforms taking place in sakhalin. (5 min: korean 0900) 96 77 (yurin) interview with new head of (tazhta) district in turkmenia. (4 min: tagalog 1300) 97 TB2212120490TAKE5 98 CONGRESS OF PPL'S DEPUTIES 99 78 yazov 19 dec remarks to soviet/foreign journalists, on role of army and situation in gulf. (c/r home 191900, item 109 on 19 dec list) (8-4 min: camb 1100 jap 201200) 100 79 boris markovnikov on 19 dec debates during 4th congress of ppl's deputies. (rpt enginter 191210, item 96 on 19 dec ist) (6.5 min: mand 0700) 101 80 gorbachev speech at 20 dec evening sitting of congress, re shevardnadze's resignation. (c/r tasse 201900, item 105 on 20 dec list) (1.5 min: engna 0000 jap 201000 201200; brief: enginter 0800 0900 1000 1100 spancuba 0130) 81 anon on 20 dec congress proceedings which discussed new union treaty, briefly quoting shevardnadze's resignation speech and gorbachev's speech in reply (1.5 min). (rpt enginter 202110, item 124 on 20 dec list) (enginter 0910 engna 0000 spancuba 0130 spanla 0200 lao 1030 camb 1100 1230 viet 1000 burm 1030 1430 hind 1130 1400 malay 1200 beng 1200 urdu 1300 tamil 1400 hind 1400; attrib gurov: frenchinter 201800 mand 202200) 103 82 vladimir isachenkov intvw with soviet army general mikhail moiseyev
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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.