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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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CLAS UNCLASSIFIED CLAS UNCLASSIFIED AFSN TB2212120090C SUBJ TAKEALL-- Comlist: Moscow Consolidated 21 Dec 90 Full Text Superzone of Message 1 GLOBAL 2 1 account of 21 dec soviet foreign ministry press briefing by vitaly churkin, on events in gulf, shevardnadze's resignation, soviet-german relations and other intl issues. (400 text sent: tasse 1640 tassr 1420; on verifying compliance with cfe treaty: 400 text sent: tasse 1649 tassr 1405; 3 min: enginter 2110) 3 2 tass corr yevgeny menkes new york report on ending of main part of 45th unga session, recapping on session's work. (400 text sent: tasse 0945) 4 3 intvw with (abdur rashid dudayev), official of intl dept of islamic organization of ussr, reviewing events of 1990. (rpt beng 161200, item 6 on 16 dec list) (beng 1200) 5 4 anselmo septiem summarizes intvw with nicaraguan amb to ussr on most important events in 1990 which in the ambassador's opinion include perestroyka, disarm, awarding of nobel prize to gorbachev, chamorro's democratic election. (3 min: spanla 2300) 5 "international situation, questions and answers": listeners write criticizing u.s. over gulf, a man in khabarovsk says why are there no sanctions against israel? igor surguchev replies, stressing soviet consistency on near east. ussr does not support u.s. bias in favor of israel, but does not condemn amaerican actions wholesale; a rostov schoolteacher, bogdanova, rang in to express her views on gulf. boris parkhomenko replies that her questions are loaded, and points out various facts she may have overlooked, her idea that iraq could attack ussr is pure fantasy. but, alas, the danger of nuclear conflict is real enough; the progress of european unity is reviewed in response to question from listener chaykovskay; pashchenko of nikolayev oblast asks whether germany is a capitalist country. konstantin patsyuk answers, yes, the former gdr has many problems; an old soldier asks about haiti. sergey pravdin gives some facts about this small land country, where poverty is rife thanks to duvalier clan. latest political developments there; premzikov (tataria): why does uk have no president? historical reasons explained. the british are praised for their love of tradition, parliamentary customs described. (home 1730) 7 6 "mirror." (rpt czech/slovak 181800, item 4 on 19 dec list) (czech/slovak 201800) 8 7 "focus on asia and pacific: incl oleg shchedrov on situation in persian gulf (rpt enginter 201210, item 40 on 20 dec list); aleksey nikolayev on comments by thai foreign minister, stating that country would like to see peace in cambodia (3 min); anon peshawar dispatch on recent prison riot, sparked off by reports of canadian prisoner with AIDS disease, highlighting fact that drug traffickers are now using AIDS patients to smuggle drugs (3 min); eugene nikitenko interview with south korean businessman attending moscow intl conf, discussing changes in relations with ussr and south korea (5 min). (enginter 0710 1310) 9 8 "mailbag." (rpt enginter 152210, item 8 on 16 dec list) (enginter 1410) 10 9 moscow radio intl listeners club program presenting quotes from Approved for Release 2/2010
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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.