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This Central Intelligence Agency record, dated 1 October 1992, is a translated transcript of a live Moscow Central Television "Utro" interview with Major General Yuriy Gusev, deputy commander of the Russian Ministry of Defense Space Units. Gusev describes the space units' role, the ratio of civilian to military launches, satellite counts, possible manned launches from Plesetsk, and the 35th anniversary of the first satellite. Asked about UFOs, he says he doubts humanoid craft but once saw an unexplained moving ray of light during a flight.
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CLAS UNCLASSIFIED CLAS UNCLASSIFIED AFSN 0W0710144692C DDAT 921001 SLIN Moscow Central Television First Program and Orbita Networks in Russian 1945 GMT 1 Oct 92 AUTH Mikhail Solntsev from the "Utro" program -- live SUBS [Studio interview with Major General Yuriy Grigoriyevich Gusev, deputy commander of the Russian Ministry of Defense Space Units, by Mikhail Solntsev from the "Utro" program -- live SUBJ TAKEALL-- Deputy Ministry Chief on Space Program Full Text Superzone of Message 1 ] [Text] [Solntsev] Good morning once again to all our viewers, and I have great pleasure in introducing our "Utro" program studio guest, Major General Yuriy Grigoriyevich Gusev, deputy commander of the Russian Ministry of Defense Space Units. Yuriy Grigoriyevich, first of all, please satisfy our viewers and my curiosity as to what are these mysterious space units, or are they not all that mysterious? [Gusev] Good morning. They are not so mysterious, seeing how much is written and talked about space today, and space activity remains the topic of discussion in Russia as well as in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. There are a number of agreements on space activity wherein space units are involved. Therefore, space units are not such a Terra Incognita [unknown land], as they say, and they are at space centers, control centers, landing sites, and so on. That is, all the elements of the ground infrastructure which ensures the launch, and operation of the space equipment during flight.
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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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.