Documents / FOIA release
This is an unclassified Central Intelligence Agency monitoring list of Moscow media broadcasts dated 25 January 1991, released in 2010. It summarizes Soviet radio, TV and TASS items on the Persian Gulf war, the unrest in the Baltic republics, the withdrawal of 50 and 100 ruble banknotes, and Soviet foreign relations. Its only UFO reference is a science program answer to a Kenyan listener. That answer confirmed there has never been an official statement on the capture of a UFO.
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Document 34 CLAS UNCLASSIFIED CLAS UNCLASSIFIED AFSN TB2601113091C SUBJ TAKEALL-- Comlist: Moscow Consolidated 25 Jan 91 Full Text Superzone of Message 1 GLOBAL 1 account of 25 jan soviet foreign ministry briefing given by vitaly churkin on besmertnykh's forthcoming working visit to usa; meeting between bessmertnykh and abbas and abd rabbuh, mbrs of plo exec committee, soviet policy in kuwait crisis. (450 text sent: tassr 1555 tassr 1838) 2 "international situation: questions and answers": with valentin gubernatorov, igor surguchev, viktor levin and sergey pravdin: gubernatorov talks with surguchev who states that iraq's seizure of kuwait has nothing to do with israel's occupation of arab territories and that it is absurd to think saddam husayn occupied kuwait in order to help palestinians (5 min); kaliningrad oblast listeners asks how druzhba oil pipeline and mir power grid is now being used and where east european countries purchase oil, gubernatorov replies (4 min, sent); 18-year old student from komsomolsk-on-amur asks until when towns with names of type georgiu-dezh, tolyatti, will exist in ussr, noting that to romanians name of gheorghiu-dej has same effect as ceausescu and perpetuating his name in this way was not at all source of joy, viktor levin admits that ancient town of liski of course deserves to regain its old name but takes issue with suggestion that name of town of tolyatti should be scrapped as it arose virtually on an empty place where vaz was built with very vigorous cooperation of italians and togliatti was indeed an outstanding figure in intl communist and workers' movement (one min); pensioner gudkova from sverdlovsk notes that with withdrawal of soviet troops from hungary and number of other countries question of monetary compensation for structures left behind after withdrawal arises very frequently, gudkova suggests that no-one asked soviets to build houses there so why not leave behind all structures as a gift (1.5 min); great patriotic war veteran kuzmich wants to know in greater detail why kaliningrad oblast will be handed over to germany and why it is being done on the quite, levin replies that no one intends to hand over kaliningrad oblast to germany (one min); letter by viktor veber refers to an isqa broadcast in july 1990 in which levin expressed anxiety as to whether germany's nationalism could somehow revive if two german states were unified, levin reiterates that while there are some grounds for concern about emergence of nationalism in germany it should not be exaggerated (one min); listener from tver oblast asks what position communist parties of countries of eastern europe are in now, gubernatorov replies that communist parties and left-wing parties there are now going through difficult period and find themselves under heavy propaganda fire, citing meeting of leaders of left-wing parties of eastern european countries held in moscow on 14-15 nov 1990, which analyzed new situation in region (2.5 min); muscovite veshnikov asks for what purpose was so-called "right of veto" introduced in unsc, who can institute it and how is it used? pravdin elaborates (3 min); fourth year students of first medical institute would like to know why in usa there has been such tempestuous, lengthy and acute polemics around right to abortus, pravdin replies, with gubernatorov asking additional questions (2.5 min); listener 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. 11 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.