Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency listing, dated 27 January 1991, catalogs Soviet radio and television broadcasts monitored from Moscow that day. Most items concern the Gulf War, Foreign Minister Bessmertnykh's visit to the United States, unrest in the Baltic republics, and the withdrawal of 50 and 100 ruble notes. A few entries touch on UFOs, including a Tashkent UFO report and a television segment on the "Perm triangle," a photograph with a circular object, and a parallel world theory.
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(tassr 0139; one min: enginter 0000) 16 13 reports on bessmertnykh's 27 jan press statement in washington following his first round of talks with james baker. (400 text sent: tassr 0135; 2-1 min: enginter 0800 0900 1000 1100 mand 1000 1300 1400 korean 0900 1100 camb 1100 1230 viet 1200 1400 lao 1030 1330 bur 1200 1430 hind 1200 urdu 1100 beng 1330 indo 1100 1530 thai 1300 tamil 1400 tagalog 1300; brief: enginter 1200 1300 1400 1500) 17 TB2801150091TAKE1 18 14 zvyagin washington report saying first round of talks between bessmertnykh and baker took place, he goes onto say american people do not want to see worsening of u.s.-soviet relations and have great expectations for forthcoming summit. (6 min: mayak 0730) 19 AMERICAS 20 15 anon on rio group meeting to begin in caracas 28 jan. (3 min: spanla 2300) 21 GERMANY 22 16 boris melnichenko "topical events" analyzing socio-economic situation in east germany and reasons for second large scale strike taking place in former gdr. the people living in that part of united germany tend to think they are economically discriminated. the outlook for territory of former gdr are not too bad, however. (5 min: german 261700) 23 WEST EUROPE 24 17 "good evening, austria." (rpt germaust 251925, item 20 on 25 jan list) (germaust 261925) 25 18 aleksandr malikov london dispatch on announcement by british home sec, kenneth baker, that he intends to implement range of tough measures in order to prevent new refugees turning up in country, not merely those with an african or asian accent but also those with eastern european ones, condeming this decision calling it discriminatory and contradictory to britain's so-called stance on freedom of travel. (mayak 1030) 26 19 anon on cultural events organized in ussr this year to mark 125th anniversary of french writer romain rolland. (rpt frenchinter 251800, item 27 on 26 jan list) (frenchinter 261800) 27 AFRICA 28 20 "africa as we see it": aleksandr fedorov on south african situation, noting that ANC's mandela and inkatha's buthelezi are to commence dialogue on 29 jan, aimed at halting black on black violence (3 min); anon on namibian president nujoma's visit to angola where he met and discussed various issues with angolan officials (3 min). (zulu 241800) 29 21 "africa as we see it": vladlen mikhaylov on nigerian debt problem where principal creditors have agreed 20 year deferment, which is viewed as type of premium for nigeria's implementation of economic restructuring recommended by IMF (4.5 min); closing talk by nikolay (kosukhin) (rpt enginter 261630, segment item 31 on 26 jan list). (enginter 261930 0630) 30 22 "russians abroad". (rpt enginter 031630, item 23 on 3 jan list) (enginter 1630) 31 23 "africa speaking". (rpt enginter 231930, item 31 on 24 jan list) (enginter 261930) 24 "africa speaking": vladimir zhuravlev interview with nigerian politologist, literary figure and businessman arthur (nwankwe), on his country's progress towards multi-party democracy, noting that by offsetting nigeria's debt the west has shown its confidence that democratic nigeria can be viable proposition. (9 min: enginter 0630)
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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. 8 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.