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This Central Intelligence Agency release is a consolidated monitoring list of Soviet broadcasts for 19 January 1991. It catalogues Radio Moscow, TASS and television items by region and topic. Most items cover the Persian Gulf war, the crisis in Lithuania and the Baltics, Soviet domestic politics, and foreign relations. One entry records an anonymous 20-minute Korean-language program on world media interest in an unidentified flying object. The list gives no further details about that program.
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noting problems faced over differing views by participants in conference, he adds they were unanimous in believing antarctica should remain continent of peace, details given of soviet/american cooperation in the region, and of soviet cooperation with pacific countries, greenpeace work in region noted (9.5 min). (enginter 0610) 6 "moscov mailbag" presented by joe adamov "krokodil" magazine described, regular correspondent from tucson told there are approximately 500 AIDS cases registered in ussr but only about 40 thousand people have been tested so far, continues by giving other statistical data relating to aids; agreement reached with several western companies to open fresh oilfields and build petrochemical complexes in ussr; lack of enthusiasm in usa for short wave listening discussed, adamov talks about his visits to seattle and praises area. (13.5 min: enginter 2300) 10 TB2001101091TAKE1 7 gorbachev geetings message to participants of nuclear weapons conference in new york. (one min, sent: home 1600) 11 8 political observer aleksandr zholkver on conference on problems of banning nuclear tests, which has just ended its work in new york, recalling history of movement for reducing and banning nuclear tests, illustrating his words with statistics for 27-year period since treaty between ussr/usa/britain on banning nuclear tests has been signed, and about dangerous situation emerging in world when some countries which possess nuclear weapons have not yet joined treaty. (4 min: mayak 0630) 12 UNITED STATES 13 9 aleksandr barabeychik intvws susan eisenhower, granddaughter of former u.s. president, who visited moscow for intl forum for survival and development of humanity, she feels gorbachev's idea for eliminating all nuclear arms by end of century is still worthwhile concept; problem is that it is not just the superpowers that have nuclear arms; gulf crisis will doubtless put nuclear non-proliferation on agenda, importance of good soviet-u.s. relations for whole world stressed, reception by gorbachev recalled, topics discussed broadly outlined. (7 min: enginter 0000) 14 AMERICAS 15 10 second part of soviet prof's lecture on beginning of soviet-brazilian relations in last century and soviet nobility's interest in brazil's colorful birds, forests. (11 min: porbtraz 0000) 16 11 tass intvw with kim en un, mbr of ussr supreme soviet's committee on intl affairs, on good prospects for development of relations between ussr and chile. (rpt tassr 181535, item 14 on 18 jan list) (400 text: tasse 0727) 17 12 corr to lima (alexsandr gramov) on escalation of terrorism in peru. (3 min: spanla 2300) 18 GERMANY 19 13 gorbachev telephone conversation with chancellor kohl re his reelection as chancellor. (c/r tasse 181536, item 16 on 18 jan list) (brief: enginter 0000 0800 0900 1000 1000 hungarian 182000 korean 0900 mand 0100 viet 1400 camb 1100 urdu 1100 hind 1200 bur 1200 indo 1300 thai 1300) 14 anon on need for the preservation of good relations between ussr and germany despite disagreement on lithuanian issue. (4 min: greek 2000) 15 anon on formation of new german cabinet, evolution of soviet-frg ties. (5 min: romanian 1700) 22 WEST EUROPE
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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. 9 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.