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This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency message dated 29 December 1990 is a consolidated list of Soviet broadcast and TASS items from Moscow for that day. It summarizes more than 100 items on topics including the Gulf crisis, disarmament, Soviet foreign relations, nationalities issues, Gorbachev's economic decrees and the Congress of People's Deputies. The only UFO reference is a note that a Radio Moscow "Moscow Mailbag" program included discussions on UFOs.
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CLAS UNCLASSIFIED CLAS UNCLASSIFIED AFSN TB3012141890C SUBJ TAKEALL-- Comlist: Moscow Consolidated 29 Dec 90 Full Text Superzone of Message 1 GLOBAL 2 1 aleksandr kanishchev/georgiy shmelev account of ussr foreign ministry briefing by vitaliy churkin on aspects of soviet foreign policy issues, citing return of soviet specialists from iraq, soviet concern for gulf crisis, charges of crime against soviet soldiers in germany, belgian govt endorsing plan to reorganize its armed forces, others. (300 text sent: tasse 1544 tassr 1505; 3 min, sent: enginter 1810 2110 spanla 2300 serbo 1700) 3 2 mikhail mikhaylov intvw with vitaliy khokhlov, head of intl bank for economic cooperation, discussing what awaits countries, mbrs of council for mutual econ assistance, incl countries of europe, asia and latam, in coming year, noting these countries switch over in their trade to world prices and payments in convertible currency, noting how this switch over will affect various countries in different. (3 min: enginter 1210 1510 1810 2110 spanla 2300 persian 1500 greek 2100 turkish 1400 romanian 1700 polish 1600 hungarian 2000 serbo 1700) 3 "world in mirror of events": on intl poll revealing what most ppl regard as main events of 1990 (3 min); discussion between aleksandr zholkver and pravdin on world events in past year and outlook for 1991, noting despite gulf crisis, they are generally hopeful, noting humanitarian aid to ussr, especially from germany, is mentioned with appreciation, pointing out ussr must stamp out crime, mentioning japanese are worried that medicines they send are held up at sheremetyevo, shamefully, contents of percels received from germany and austria even turn up on black market (4 min). (home 1745) 5 4 roundup reports from viktor gorbachev in havana, and vladimir korolev in mongolia on situations in these countries. (rpt enginter 281210, item 5 on 28 dec list) (engna 0000 spanish 282100 mand 1000) 6 5 "mirror". (rpt czech/slovak 251800, item 11 on 26 dec list) (czech/slovak 281800) 7 6 "radio moscow friends' club": review of letters from listeners and activities of club in 1990 and prospects of club for 1991, conveying seasonal greetings to listeners. (arabic 1600) 8 7 "moscow mailbag": incl discussions on ufo's, effective econ blockade or iraq needs time, aftermath of armenian earthquake, ryzhkov's promise of recovery in two years not fulfilled, outlining distribution problems causing shortages in ussr, also deliberate sabotage of perestroyka. (engna 2300) 9 DISARM 10 8 vladyslav kozyakov on cuts in nuclear arsenals, noting desire for greater changes during coming year, underlining significance of test ban, quoting warnke that u.s. intends to go ahead with testing but effect of this would bring to nothing effect of agmts already signed, claiming with a test ban treaty in place risk of new nuclear powers arising would be largely offset. (4 min: engna 2300) 11 9 summary soviet press comment on ussr defense minister yazov intvw with 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. 8 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.