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This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS report, dated 1 August 1990, translates an interview with Major General of Aviation Aleksey Leonov published in the Moscow journal Aviatsiya i Kosmonavtika. Leonov describes the Soviet manned lunar program, how the cosmonauts trained for it, and the test failures that ended it. He also criticizes Soviet secrecy and argues that the Buran shuttle is needed. Asked about UFO claims, he says Aldrin's remark 'they're watching us' referred to Earth, not extraterrestrials.
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Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1991 Document 8 of 17 Page 1 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Status: [STAT] Document Date: 01 Aug 90 Category: [CAT] Report Type: JPRS Report Report Date: Report Number: JPRS-UAC-91-001 UDC Number: Author(s): Major I. Kuznetsov under rubric ''Our Interview Guest'': ''The Flight That Did Not Occur''; uncaptioned photograph of Major General of Aviation Leonov included] Headline: Maj Gen Avn Leonov on Soviet Lunar Program Details Source Line: 91UM0064J Moscow AVIATSIYA I KOSMONAVTIKA in Russian No 8, Aug 90 (signed to press 18 Jul 90) pp 44-45 Subslug: [Interview of Major General of Aviation Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov, USSR Pilot-Cosmonaut, Twice-Honored HSU, by Major I. Kuznetsov under rubric ''Our Interview Guest'': ''The Flight That Did Not Occur''; uncaptioned photograph of Major General of Aviation Leonov included] FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Interview of Major General of Aviation Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov, USSR Pilot-Cosmonaut, Twice-Honored HSU, by Major I. Kuznetsov under rubric "'Our Interview Guest'': "'The Flight That Did Not Occur''; uncaptioned photograph of Major General of Aviation Leonov included] 3. [Kuznetsov] Aleksey Arkhipovich, the journal's readers are interested in "'gaps"' in the history of Soviet cosmonautics. One of them is our manned lunar program, in which you had occasion to participate. Share your recollections. 2. [Text] Major General of Aviation A. Leonov, USSR Pilot-Cosmonaut, Twice-Honored HSU, tells about the Soviet lunar program and contemporary problems of cosmonautics. 4. [Leonov] The Soviet manned lunar program envisaged two stages: the first was a flyby of the Moon and the second was a manned landing on the Moon, and its technical director was Hero of Socialist Labor Vasiliy Pavlovich Mishin. 5. The first stage in the mid-1960's--that was when Center specialists joined in fulfilling it--was viewed realistically: the Proton booster rocket already was flying and the Soyuz craft, named L-1 in the lunar version, was being materialized in metal. The second was problematical, but we believed that it would be carried out. Back before the decision was made on realizing the lunar program, Sergey Pavlovich Korolev told us about the powerful N-1 booster and L-3
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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. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.