Documents / FOIA release
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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air-raids on iraqi military targets; u.s. military command pleased with progress: bush quoted in this connection and calling for realism; iraq again shelled tel aviv, israeli premier's spokesman said country will retaliate; soviet foreign ministry rep reiterated ussr's position voiced on friday, urging iraq's leaders to realise their actions result only in destruction for iraqi people and israel to show necessary restraint and avoid path that leads to still greater tensions in mideast. (3 min: enginter 1810 2000 2110 2300 serbo 2000) 42 anon on situation in persian gulf. (5-3 min: spanla 2300 greek 2000 romanian 1700) 43 pavel demchenko on situation in gulf, saying iraq has withstood initial strikes and dream of those who thought matter will end in short time has been dashed, re situation in the arab demchenko says in tunisia, sudan and yemen and others are expressing sympathy with iraq, while others including saudi arabia and egypt are participating the hostilities, contending arab masses' anti-israel feelings should be taken into account because israel is still occupying west bak, east jerusalem and other arab lands. (arabic 1600) 44 military observer aleksandr yakovlev on latest developments in persian gulf area, noting outcome of first two and half days of war indicates plans to assure quick success of multinational force in military operations has failed to materialize, the american command admitted hostilities are to last at least 'til february, soviet amb to usa, yuliy vorontsev cited on ussr's contacts with iraqi leadership. (3 min: enginter 1210 1510 arabic 1500 bulgarian 1600 polish 1600 korean 1100 mand 1000 viet 1200 1400 lao 1030 1330 camb 1100 1230 hind 1200 indo 1100 bur 1200 1430 thai 1300) 45 melnikov video report on bombing of baghdad, iraqi strikes against israel, bush talked on telephone with shamir, long-drawn out and unpredictable conflict expected. (4 min: tv 1530) 46 review of soviet press comment on situation in the gulf. (rpt portbraz 182300, item 62 on 18 jan list) (engna 0000 urdu 1100) 47 undatelined tass roundup of gulf crisis. (approx 700 words: tassr 0325) 48 report on public reaction to gulf war, concern, criticism of saddam. (5 min: jap 181000) 60 49 news agencies reports on reaction in asian countries on outbreak of war, iranian president hashemi-rafsanjani immediately sent msg to perez de cuellar expressing regret at outbreak of war, and called for speedy amicable settlement by peaceful means, indian prime minister said he would welcome all soviet peace moves. large-scale marches took place in pakistani city of peshawar against u.s. policy in persian gulf. (5 min: persian 181530) 61 MIDEAST 62 50 saadettin dogan, from the turkish foreign trade under secretariat, who is participating as observer in consumexpo-91 exhibition that opened in mosow 17 jan, interviewed on goals and benefits of exhibition and bilateral trade relations. (3 min: turkish 1830) 63 51 "soviet union and turkey -- on path of goodneighborliness: intvw with director of assn of bilateral trade and economic relations on goals of assn. (4 min: turkish 1430 1830) 64 TB2001111391TAKE4 65 SOUTH ASIA
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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.