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Comlist: Moscow Consolidated 29 Dec 90

Central Intelligence Agency · 1990-12-29 · 8 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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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42 (basant georgiyev) summing up events of 1990 which contributed to improvement of sov-india relations, citing visits to india of soviet military delegation, modvinov-led soviet trade delegation, lukyanov-led parliamentary delegation, holding of sov-india summit in moscow, exchange visits of cultural delegations and publication of books in each other's country. (6 min: hind 1400)

55 CHINA

56 43 (kirin mikhailov) on unification efforts of china and taiwan. (rpt mand 280700, item 56 on 28 dec list) (camb 1100)

57 44 intvw with prc ambassador to ussr on prc-ussr ties in past year, outlook for various coop, others. (8 min, sent: mand 282200 1000 1400)

58 ASIAN COMMUNIST

59 45 oleg alekseyev on acclamation expressed by reps of foreign ministries of vietnam and china on outcome of supreme national council of cambodia in paris 21-22 dec. (4 min: lao 1030 1300)

60 TB3012142190TAKE3

61 46 anon discussing cambodian issue. (6 min: kor 0900)

62 47 intvw with chmn koryo assn living in ussr and prof of moscow univ, on character of assn, its activities. (rpt kor 281330, item 62 on 28 dec list) (kor 1330)

63 48 anon on political developments in mongolia, organization of pluralist state and implementation of perestroyka. (rpt spanla 282300, item 63 on 28 dec list) (spancuba 0130)

64 ASIA/PACIFIC

49 "focus on asia and pacific": anon on chinese stand toward gulf situation in view of visit by emir of kuwait to beijing, citing talks held with prc chmn, of press conf on thursday by kuwaiti foreign minister and of meeting between emir and li peng (3 min); anon on situation in cambodia, noting opposition setting up hostilities against government troops, reviewing events since viet troop withdrawal, serious steps toward settlement only taken after countries of se asia and then unsc permanent mbrs began to show real interest in resolving protracted conflict (3.5 min); anon on endorsement by jap govt of a five-year plan to build up arms, quoting times calling japan 'the last cold warrior', noting japan's changing stand toward soviet threat, culminating in declaration by jap foreign minsiter during shevardnadze's visit to japan that cold war was over, mentioning, however, that there are some signs of transformation in japan's military policy in a positive direction (3 min); anon re yonhap report of plans by south korean metallurgical companies to increase by 10 times purchase of hot rolled steel from ussr and china next year, citing this as another example of interest in ussr and china to do business with south korea (3.5 min). (enginter 0710)

66 50 "focus on asia": incl report based on beijing talks about china's bureaucratism (5 min); anon on issues of cambodian refugees (5 min). (kor 1100)

67 51 kondratyev roundup intvws with correspondents in prc, japan, singapore, india on major events in their host countries during 1990. (15 min: mand 0700)

68 52 (aleksey kondratin) on year-end review of foreign policies of some asian countries and soviet union. (13 min: burm 1030)

69 53 vasiliy harkov rounding up 1990 economic and political developments in asean countries noting rapid econ development in most regional countries. (8 min: indo 1330)

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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.