Documents / FOIA release
This is an unclassified CIA broadcast monitoring listing titled "Comlist: Moscow Consolidated", dated 26 January 1991 and approved for release in February 2010. It catalogues the day's Soviet radio, TV and TASS items by topic. Coverage includes the Persian Gulf war, Foreign Minister Bessmertnykh's trip to the United States, unrest in the Baltic republics, the withdrawal of 50 and 100 ruble banknotes, and India's Republic Day. One entry, a repeat from a Korean-language service, notes world interest in the sighting of a UFO.
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(tecnosuma). (4 min: spancuba 0130) 23 18 (name indistinct) on book by (tatiana petrova) released in ussr which compiles history of cuban film industry. (5 min: spancuba 0130) 24 19 pedro clavijo reports from bogota on killing of colombian reporter diana turbay when police tried to rescue her from drug traffickers. (3.5 min: spanla 2300) 25 20 anselmo septiem intvws outgoing colombian amb to ussr guillermo plazas, who says that mutual relations are good and trade prospects improving. (3.5 min: spanla 2300) 26 21 viktor druga reports from mexico on movement for legalization of abortion. (3 min: spanla 0000) 27 22 (aleksandr grafov) reports from lima on president fujimori's confidential letter to u.s. govt proposing new strategy to fight drug trafficking, although letter is confidential, lima dailies are commenting on importance of this move, report on dailies' coverage of this issue. (3 min: spanla 2300) 28 GERMANY 29 23 tass report from berlin on opening of 2d congress of pds. (approx 400 words: tassr 1655) 30 TB2701131691TAKE2 31 24 anatoliy stepkin reports from berlin on second congress of pds, quoting report on political program and party's strategy by gregor gysi, chairman of pds, delegates of congress took part in mass anti-war meeting at aleksandrplatz during break in work of congress. (3 min: mayak 1730) 32 25 (viktor sukhov) on art exhibition held in moscow entitled "fall of berlin wall." (3 min: spanla 2300) 33 WEST EUROPE 34 26 sergey bogoslovskiy interviews alistair robertson, export coordinator of coats viyella. (rpt enginter 252000, item 23 on 25 jan list) (enginter 2000) 35 27 anon on cultural events organized in ussr this year to mark 125th anniversary of french writer romain rolland and interest in his work in the country. (6 min: frenchinter 251800) 36 28 "soviet-french friendship newsreel." (rpt frenchinter 221800, item 17 on 23 jan list) (251800) 37 AFRICA 29 "africa as we see it": vladimir borisov on creation of somali national salvation committee in rome, noting factor uniting opposition groups today is their common enemy-president barre, who finds himself besieged in his capital and witness to an alliance of his opponents (4 min); third in series of talks by nikolay (kosukhin) on way to fight african misfortunes (rpt enginter 251630, item 26 on 25 jan list) (enginter 251930) 30 "africa as we see it": vladimir valentinov on anc decision to launch campaign of mass action against apartheid system on 1 feb (rpt enginter 231630, item 19 on 23 jan list); third talks by nikolay (kosukhin) on how to fight african misfortunes (rpt enginter 251630, item 26 on 25 jan list). (enginter 0630) 31 "africa as we see it": closing talk by prof nikolay (kosukhin) asking is there any future for democratic socialism in africa, after analyzing the pros and cons concludes future of africans depended on themselves and their leaders (4.5 min); novosti observer aleksandr (kubilatskiy) on problems of integration within africa (rpt enginter 211630, item 20 on 21 jan list) (enginter 1630)
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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. 10 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.