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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gorbachev press statement. (rpt enginter 241210, item 94 on 24 jan list) (mand 252200; anon: spanla 0000 portbraz 2300) 107 84 anon on situation on baltic states. (3 min: korean 1100) 108 85 cpsu cc press center report on secretariat meeting on baltic, quoting v.a. ivashko, dpty gen-sec, who chaired meeting. (800 text sent: tassr 1752) 109 86 igor fesunenko tv intvw with boris pugo, ussr minister of internal affairs, and vladimir kazantsev, intl lawyer, discussing situation in baltic republics. (6 min, sent: tv 1800) 110 87 vladislav solovyev on situation in baltic republics, noting situation stabilizing partly due to gorbachev's stmt. pointing out much now depends on contradictory behaviour of opposing side, touching on burokevicious call to landsbergis for meeting to end tension, mentioning such processes are reportedly under way in beighboring baltic republics, with a call to remove barricades in riga, stressing tendency toward dialogue is gwoing in republics. (6-3 min: enginter 1210 1510 2000 portbraz 2300 spanla 2300 german 1600 arabic 1500 greek 2000 persian 1500 bulgarian 1600 romanian 1700 polish 1600 serbo 2000 tagalog 1300 burm 1200 1430 thai 1300 viet 1200 camb 1100 lao 1030 1330 mand 1000 1400) 111 TB2601113591TAKE6 112 88 review of letters to gorbachev expreessing concern about country's destiny following events in baltic republics, quoting letters from workers of a tallinn plant, klaipeda electric equipment workshop, tomsk shoe factory and krasnoyarsk ship repair works. letters from party cmtee in tomsk district and rural council in omsk district also quoted, all supporting strong measures to stabilize situation in baltics. (3.5 min: enginter 1810 2110) 113 89 special corr andrey trapeznikov tallinn dispatch, on estonian supsov decision declaring 25 jan day of mourning in memory of those who lost their lives for independence of latvia. (6 min sent: mayak 0610) 114 90 andrey trapeznikov tallinn dispatch on situation in estonia, highlighting meeting between arnold ruutel, head of parliament, ulo nugis, speaker of supsov and jaak leimann, minister of economy with reps of labor collectives at negotiation table, noting talks have shown that estonian leadership is prepared in principle to opt for compromise, but also is in favor of using method of negotiations to tackle all issues, and in particular those concerning compensations in connection with price rises in republic. (5 min: mayak 1508) 115 91 inard skuins riga dispatch on thousands of ppl bidding fairwell to victims of sunday's tragic events, noting funeral meeting was held at freedom monument in center of city, and words of farewell were spoken by chmn of council of ministers godmanis, among others, reviewing current situation in republic. (5 min: home 1600) 116 92 report on 25 jan journeying in latvia. (8 min: german 1600) 117 93 gerasimov video report on vilnius situation normalizing. (rpt tv 241800, item 107 on 24 jan list) (tv 1530) 118 94 vladimir perfiliyev on situation in lithuania, noting press conference held by georgiy tarazevich, rep of ussr supsov, noting some progress in possible meeting between delegations of union and republic to discuss situation, mentioning meeting between mikolas burokevicius, with leaders of mass media. (3.5 min: home 1600) 119 95 intvw with two reps of lituhania's citizens' cmtee, to give their eye-witness accounts of recent events, quoting viktor (samoylenko)
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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.