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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41 32 "ussr-africa, contacts and contracts." (rpt enginter 221630, item 28 on 22 jan list) (enginter 1630) 42 33 "program for radio moscow listseners' clubs in africa." (rpt enginter 181930, item 23 on 19 jan list) (enginter 251930) 43 PERSIAN GULF 44 34 round-up undatelined tass reports on gulf situation. (approx 750 words: tassr 0835; approx 700 words: tassr 1530; approx 950 words: tassr 1953) 45 35 stv intvw with soviet missile forces chief mikhalkin, warning israq's missile potential not exhausted and unpredictability re outcome of gulf war. (2 min, ed report sent: tv 1800; approx 100 words: tassr 1920; brief: enginter 2300) 46 36 anon intvw with soviet academician mikhail kapitsa, pegged. (rpt portbraz 252300, item 34 on 25 jan list) (portbraz 0000 spanish 252100 urdu 1100 hind 1200 camb 1100) 47 37 anon "about the costs which humanity pays because of war in the gulf," figures released by u.s. congressional budget office suggest u.s. spends one billion dollars per day, it is expected that war will cost u.s. seventeen billion dollars per month. (arabic 251600) 48 38 sergey koshkin on economic consequences of gulf crisis in view of registeringof new price link for oil, contending any military conflict has economic consequences for whole world especially price of oil, touching on levels of extraction and consumption and opec's role in stabilizing prices and consumption. (3.5 min: enginter 1210 1510 1810 2110 spanla 2300 spanish 2100 arabic 1500 persian 1500 bulgarian 1600 romanian 1700 polish 1600 serbo 2000 korean 1100; anon: indo 1530 bur 1430 camb 1230 lao 1330) 49 39 (pyotr kolvankov) reports from caracas on people's reaction to persian gulf conflict. (3 min: spanla 2300) 50 TB2701131791TAKE3 51 40 gaston vargas on economic,political,social and ecological effects persian gulf war will have on world population. (3 min: spanla 0000) 52 41 second part of vladimir stigneyev intvw with cuban vice foreign minister rural roa on well-known cuban position re persian gulf conflict, based on respect for un resolutin calling for iraq to withdraw from kuwait but against military action because it will lead nowhere, overall solutin to mideast problem must be found. (6 min: spanla 2300) 53 42 anon on southeast asian countries reaction to gulf var. (3 min: mand 1000) 54 43 (rustam glonin) dispatch from islamabad saying pakistani prime minister's gulf mission is aimed at initiating peace efforts as well as pacifying domestic opposition. (rpt urdu 251100, item 39 on 25 jan list) (urdu 1100) 55 44 "gulf update." (rpt tv 251800, item 33 on 25 jan list) (tv 1530) 56 45 m. osokin report over videos on latest combat in guyl. (3 min: tv 1800) 57 MIDFAST 57 MIDEAST 58 46 third in series of interviews with expert in historical science "the gulf crisis and the palestinian issue," re situation in occupied territories. (arabic 1600) 59 47 intvw with syrian students in ussr who talk about their studies and daily life in the country. (arabic 1500) 60 48 named corr's dispatch on concert to be held in athens 30 jan, depicts life and cultural career of four violinists comprising the group. (4 min,
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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.