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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bank notes. (4 min: mayak 0800) 136 110 valeriy kiosa phone intvw with valeriy pekshev, dpty chmn board of ussr state bank, denying claims that exchange of 25 ruble banknotes will start on 28 jan. (3.5 min: home 1600) 111 video report on progress of money exchange, incl intvw wof cashier at a savings bank where pensioners are queueing to exchange money, quoting woman at another bank complaining about long waits in queues and lack of organization. (3 min: tv 1800) 138 112 roundup reports on progress of money exchange operation, noting govt prolongs period for pensioners to exchange money, citing tass report citing pekshev denying withdrawal of smaller denomination notes, reviewing foreign reaction and goskomstat report. (4.5 min: tv 1800) 139 113 vitaliy gurov on 25 jan being last day of current soviet financial reforms, replacing 50 and 100 ruble notes, claiming reform was necessary, but it has caused problems, with money unavailable at banks and panic in country, maintaining prime reason for campaign is war against underground business, quoting aleksandr (gorov) of ussr interior ministry, attacking effect of smuggling money abroad, claiming this is a strike at foreign connections of soviet mafia, citing stv report on panic among this group. (3.5 min: enginter 1210 1510 2000 portbraz 2300 spanls 2300 german 1600 arabic 1500 persian 1500 bulgarian 1600 romanian 1700 polish 1600 serbo 2000 camb 1100 tagalog 1300) 140 114 review soviet press comment on monetary reform in ussr, quoting komsomolskaya pravda and robachaya tribuna. (4 min: german 1700) 141 LIFE IN USSR 142 115 vyacheslav solovyev on soviet sociologists' congress. (5 min: bulgarian 1600) 143 116 "hour for youth." (rpt korean 221330, item 121 on 22 jan list) (korean 1330) 144 117 "various aspects of soviet life": anon on first soviet meeting of sociology held in moscow (5 min); anon describes on-going agricultural reforms in ussr, cites failures in collectivization of soviet agriculture in 1930's, also notes new laws allowing private ownership of land, saying peasants can freely choose life in collective farms, or life as independent peasants (7 min). (korean 0900) 145 118 "through land and time": incl report on first moscow congress of soviet sociologists, incl intvw with soviet acad tatyana (soslavskaya) (4 min); info on moscow mafia (6 min); requested info on death penalty in ussr (5 min). (27 min overall, incl music: german 1700) 146 TB2601113791TAKE8 147 119 "soviet life": incl talk on measures being taken in ussr in agri sector and intvw with manager of inaidn firm which is taking part in moscow trade fair in which he expressed desire to develop trade relations with ussr. (18 min: beng 1330) 148 120 "know the ussr": discussing multi-party system, perestroyka. (37 min, incl music: amharic 241500) 149 121 "events in ussr": incl profile of valentin pavlov, new ussr council of ministers chmn (3 min); report on results of crimean referendum (3 min); reportage on exhibition in memory of andrey sakharov (4 min). (turkish 1430) 150 122 "ussr today": (wajachev) on public debate on currency changes (3 min); (chilianov) on protecting soldiers' slcoal, legal status (3 min). (6 min overall: mand 0100)
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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.