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Comlist: Moscow Consolidated 25 Jan 91

Central Intelligence Agency · 1991-01-25 · 11 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 1 …where vaz was built with very vigorous cooperation of italians and togliatti was indeed an outstanding…
  • p. 2 …2.5 min); anon on plans for cooperation between kabul and soviet war veterans, in georgia…
  • p. 3 …with ussr and its plans for future cooperation. (7.5 min: enginter 2000) 32 24 "program…
  • p. 5 …hind 1200) 62 49 radio journal: "friendship and cooperation" for indian listeners present: talk on growing…
  • p. 6 …korean 0900) 55 (leonid isinmov), head of foreign law relations and cooperation service of soviet justice…

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71 oleg alekseyev on thai govt's decision to set up trade office in hanoi and phnompenh. (5 min: camb 1100 indo 1530)

72 anon bangkom dispatch on recent trend in buying land in northern thailand. (4 min: camb 1230)

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73 report on soviet-albanian trade talks. (3 min: mand 242200)

74 irina chaykova intvw with rsfsr dpty tatyana koryagina, on visit to czechoslovakia, comparing progress of restructuring in two countries with ref to soviet film on subject, noting that political and econ reform go hand in hand, touching on book by sholzhenitsyn, reviewing current tasks facing ussr and noting that gorbachev outlined some of them at his recent press conf on 22 jan. (15 min: czech/slovak 241800)

75 anon on rehabilitation of ppl sentenced in stalinist repressions now under way in ussr, quoting soviet prosecution official on process, noting some cases, incl czechoslovak ones, mentionining that czechoslovak prosecutor gasparovic notified by his soviet counterpart. (6 min: czech/slovak 241800)

95 76 aleksandr shakhin belgrade report on balkan foreign trade ministers meeting, noting balkan trade has been expanding and such meetings are possible thanks to new climate in europe and understanding which has improved over past three years, quoting yugoslav press that meeting aims to bring about multilateral trade in area, as opposed to bilateral. (5-3 min: portbraz 2300 greek 2000 bulgarian 1600)

96 WARSAW PACT

97 77 military observer colonel vadim solovyev critizing hungary's and czechoslovakia's approach to warsaw pact. (10 min: bulgarian 1700) 98 MILITARY

99 78 joint press stmt of ussr interior and defense ministries on law and order measures, incl joint militia-army exercises. (3 min, sent: tv 1800; 300 text: tasse 2051; brief: enginter 2200 2300)

100 79 tass corr oleg moskovskiy, quoting interview with soviet armed forces rear cmdr-general vladimir achkipov, on military equipment auction in moscow. (300 text sent: tasse 1531 tassr 1050)

101 SPACE

102 80 "science and engineering": incl feature "question time": belitskiy replies to kenyan listener re earth only known planet to be habitable, giving details of soviet moon exploration, mentioning interest in ussr in possibility of extra terrestrial research, confirmation that there has never been an official statement on capture of a UF0. (8 min: enginter 0710 2300)

103 NATIONALITIES

104 81 anatoliy potapov on NATO's reaction to events in baltic republics, noting NATO's demarche causes both surprise and alarm. (rpt enginter 241210, item 95 on 24 jan list) (enginter 0000 amharic 241500 swahili 241700)

105 82 larissa korneyeva on western media reaction to baltic events, noting few attempts to reveal true causes and get to roots of crisis, stressing until law and order are restored in baltic region more blood can be shed, stressing that soviet law enforcing bodies have seen behind lithuanian conflict flagrant violations of national constitution, comparing soviet actions with those of u.s. in grenada. (4.5 min: enginter 2300)

106 83 vitaliy gurov on easing tensions in baltic republics, briefly quoting

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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.