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This CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service listing, dated 6 November 1990, indexes the day's Soviet radio, television and TASS output. It mostly covers the 73rd anniversary of the October Revolution, the Persian Gulf crisis, unrest in Moldova and the draft union treaty. It also logs reports on Germany, Afghanistan, Cambodia and the Soviet economy. One entry notes a report on a new almanac of UFOs that had just come off the press in Moscow.
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settlement in el salvador, re results of regular meeting of central american countries in el salvador. (400 text sent: tasse 1837) GERMANY 44 yevgeniy vassilyev intvw with (enno barka), press spokesman at frg embassy in moscow, on significance of mikhail gorbachev's upcoming first visit to united germany, noting treaty to be signed, anticipating boost for soviet-german relations. (4 min: german 1600) 45 anon frankfurt/oder dispatch on open house events recently staged in soviet military facilities on former gdr territory, stressing highly favorable reaction in media. (3 min: german 1600) 46 "topical subject": boris melnichenko on economic, social situation of new federal lands on former gdr territory, noting disillusionment re closure of hundreds of firms and factories. (5 min: german 1700) NATO/WEST EUROPE 47 (vadim solovyev) intvw with army general mikhail moiseyev, chief of general staff of soviet armed forces, on his recent visit to nato headquarters in brussels, noting same views shared by east and west on main issues of all-european security. (4-3 min, sent: enginter 1210 1510 1810 2110 portbraz 2200 enguk 2000 german 1600 spanish 2100 portuguese 2100 dari 1500 albanian 1600 bulgarian 1700 romanian 1700 polish 1600 serbo 1700 greek 2100 turkish 1400 mand 1400) 57 48 col vladimir orlov outlining current state of play in process of arms control in europe in light of coming shevardnadze-baker meeting. (rpt german 051600, item 26 on 5 nov list) (engna 0000) 58 TB0711150290TAKE3 49 "good evening austria": incl historian dr (olga nilichka) from intl institute for studies of workers movement, on scientific approach to soviet history and on recent intl conf on workers movement held in austrian city of linz (8 min); intvw with dmitri (mironov), deputy head sverdlovsk section of austro-soviet friendship society, on may 1991 days of soviet union in austria, which will be dedicated to arts and culture from urals (9 min); vladimir alekseyenko, head soviet research institute that staged 'donau 90' ecologist expedition along donau river, on findings of mission, incl stmts by other scientists involved (5 min). (germaust 1925) 60 50 tass vienna dispatch on austria-treaty, quoting mock. (approx 550 words: tassr 1420) 61 51 tass helsinki dispatch quoting 'turun sanomat' intvw with finnish director of southern waters of finland ecological society, incl tass intvw with finnish nature preservation union. (approx 350 words: tassr 0740) 62 AFRICA 63 52 "africa as we see it": vladislav chernukha on postponement of fifth round of talks between angolan govt and unita (rpt enginter 1210, listed below); vladimir valentinov on public amenities laws in south africa (rpt engafr 011700, item 46 on 1 nov list) (engafr 1700 2000) 53 vladislav chernukha on postponement of fifth round of talks between angolan government and unita, believes nevertheless two sides are determined to settle conflict, noting in attempt to break deadlock hindering basic agreement, angolan leadership has decided that early next year an article on multiparty system will be included in constitution, and general election held later, lisbon sources say these decisions took unita by surprise, the real reason why they asked for postponement. (3 min: enginter 1510 spanish 2100 portuguese 2100 arabic 1500)
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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.