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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and order measures, incl joint military-army exercises. (c/r tv 251800, item 78 on 25 jan list) (brief: viet 1200 1400 camb 1100 lao 1030 1330 burm 1200 indo 1100 thai 1300 hind 1200) 81 report on joint military-militia troops created to maintain order in ussr cities in wake of gorbachev decree to withdraw 50 and 100 ruble banknotes, asks is this a further move toward dictatorship in ussr. (3 min, sent: rossii 1100) 02 82 aleksandr tikhonov on creation of joint military-militia patrols in major soviet cities, quoting yelena kuznetsova account of press conference given in moscow given by sergey stankevich, yuriy luzhkov. (4 min, sent: rossii 1247) 103 83 anatoliy bezuglov, president of an organization endeavoring to ensure that all servicemen, of whatever nationality, who perished on soviet soil during WWII, receive a decent burial, denying that organization has any connection with a firm called "ekho" which has been accused by kgb of involvement in illegal dollar-ruble currency swap, mentioning that idea of affording a decent burial to foreign soldiers does not please everyone in ussr. (approx 350 words: tassr 1751) 84 "i serve the soviet union": kim khukholev on withdrawal of soviet troops from east european countries and their resettlement in territory of ussr, incl intvw with corr vladimir stanovskiy giving account of his visits to number of countries where soviet military withdrawal was taking place, reviewing various problems associated with this, quoting intvw with maj-gen matvey burlakov, c-in-c of western group of forces, embowered by ussr govt in withdrawal of soviet troops from germany (one min) (5 min); anon on army facing many problems with desertion being near top of list, giving account of group of armenians who deserted and recaptured in a freight car near tula, quoting from intvws with deserters who say they are being well-treated, quoting their commander that no charges are being made against young men (15 min); army archivist section": intvw with dpty director of central state archives of soviet army on documents contained in archives on civil war, noting documents showed that both sides in civil war loved their counjtry equally (10 min). (home 1515) 106 85 anon on world interest in siting of ufo. (rpt kor 191330, item 72 on 19 jan list) (kor 1330) 107 86 "moscow mailbag"" replying to listeners' questions on life and career of space rocket designer sergey korolov. (rpt enginter 192000, item 73 on 19 jan list) (enginter 2000) 108 NATIONALITIES 109 87 anatoliy potapov on nato's reaction to events in baltic republics. (rpt enginter 241210, item 95 on 24 jan list) (jap 251000) 110 TB2701132091TAKE6 111 88 vladislav solovyev on situation in baltic republics. (rpt enginter 251210, item 87 on 25 jan list) (enginter 0000 spanish 252100 arabic 251600 hungarian 252000 hind 1200 urdu 1100) 112 89 review of letters to gorbachev expressing concern about country's destiny following events in baltic republics. (rpt enginter 251810, item 88 on 25 jan list) (portbraz 0000) 113 90 sergey vorobyev on foreign and soviet concern over growing displays of nationalism, separatism and centerist forces in soviet republics, noting separatist sentiments are inevitable in multinatl ussr in view of artificial ideology aimed at serving rigid centralism, outlining
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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.