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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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16 summary pravda outlining contents of various british intelligence documents supplied by spy george blake. (rpt enginter 172000, item 20 on 17 jan list) (enginter 2000) 17 "newsreel of soviet-french friendship." (rpt frenchinter 111800, item 26 on 13 jan list) (frenchinter 181800) 25 18 item on exhibition of french painter. (3 min, poor: polish 1600) 26 AFRICA 27 19 "africa as we see it": yuriy zhuravlev on initial reaction in africa to events in persian gulf (rpt enginter 181630, item 25 on 18 jan list); vladlen mikhaylov on difficult year ahead in ghana, noting finance and economic planning sec, recently warned that this year would not be easy due to loc prices for african exports and increased oil prices, contending enforced curtailment of state expenditure would also affect social program, nevertheless, govt planned to continue its economic recovery course (4 min). (enginter 181930 0630) 20 "africa as we see it": vladlen mikhaylov on announcement in freetown that general elections would be held in may, a bitter fight has erupted, with number of groups urging an immediate review of constitution to abandon one-party rule, until recently ruling party, while conceding need for greater democracy, raised fears that emergence of several parties could lead to revival of tribal differences, religious strife and internal destabilization (2.5 min); aleksey grigoriyev on intl consumer expo '91, which opened in moscow, noting applications to participate had been received from 35 countries, but none from africa, citing remarks at opening press conf given by deputy chairman of ussr chamber of commerce and deputy general director of expo, regretting africa's absence from expo. (3.5 min). (enginter 1630) 21 "africa speaking": sergey nagayev intvws nigerian scientist dr. (ayo ojajune), currently at philosophy department of moscow state university, they discussed item in arguments and facts, which had noted growing rapprochement between east and west, stressing vast economic aid being given by west to ussr, would lead to starvation of at least twenty million people in africa, noting africa had the resources and rich agricultural potential, all it needed was to be more inward looking, selfreliant and politically stable. (11 min: enginter 0630) 30 TB2001101191TAKE2 22 "an invitation to talk": first instalment interviewed dr. irina filatova, head of department of african studies of moscow university, on financial difficulties affecting her department and waning interest in africa, excepting south africa. (6.5 min: enginter 0630) 23 "program for radio moscow listeners' clubs in africa": letters, as usual mostly from nigeria, reviewed, following letter from ghana quoted about club activities, listener in sierra leone who had asked about life of soviet muslims was told that a special program on subject would be broadcast on 15 feb; "chronicle of events in ussr": review of issues discussed at december session of congress of people's deputies quoting deputies dzharimov and zeleznev. (15 min: enginter 181930) 24 intvww with soviet amb to somalia on situation in mogadishu. (4 min: somali 171600) PERSIAN GULF 25 gorbachev 17 jan stv/radio stmt on gulf war. (c/r tv 170936, item 29 on 17 jan list) (2-1.5 min: somali 171600/twice/ jap 181000 181200) 26 anon on outbreak of war in gulf. (rpt enginter 171210, item 39 on 17
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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.