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This Central Intelligence Agency release is a program list (comlist) of Soviet Radio Peace and Progress broadcasts for 9 December 1990. It sets out 14 items under the headings Global/Disarm, Americas, Mideast and USSR, noting each item's speaker, length and broadcast language. Topics include the Gulf crisis, Central American and Paraguayan politics, and the Soviet peace committee. One Arabic-language item has journalist Ahmad Abu Rashad discussing the Soviet economic crisis and the phenomenon of UFOs. The document was approved for release in February 2010.
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## UNCLASSIFIED CLAS UNCLASSIFIED CLAS UNCLASSIFIED AFSN TB1012132990 SUBJ Comlist: Radio Peace and Progress 9 Dec 90 Full Text Superzone of Message 1 GLOBAL/DISARM 2 1 report on british political science expert's article on substance and fate of socialism. (7 min: hebrew 1600) 3. 2 "the soviet union through the eyes of an arab": journalist ahmad abu rashad on economic crisis in ussr and phenomenon of ufo's. (arabic 1400) 4 3 (vladimir yiordan) on soviet committee for defense of peace and need to convene a conference to set up cncl of founder mbrs. (rpt persian 051530, item 3 on 5 dec list) (persian 1530) 5 AMERICAS 6 4 marina petrovskaya on upcoming summit of central american presidents this month in effort to find solution to explosive situation in region. (4 min: span 0100 0300) 7 5 anon on recent events in panama and argentina. (rpt span 070100, item 2 on 7 dec list) (3 min: span 0100 0300) 8 6 aleksey pavlov on paraguayan govt decision to retire several generals who are known to be involved in corruption. (rpt span 070100, item 3 on 7 dec list) (3 min: spanla 0100 0300) 9 MIDEAST 10 7 anon on meetings held in tehran between reps of iranian and intl religious and scientific circles which analyzed role of islamic element in palestinian people's struggle. (rpt arabic 071400, item 6 on 7 dec list) (arabic 1400) 11 8 andrey vasiliyev on bush's pessimism on convincing saddam to voluntarily pull out of kuwait. (rpt persian 071530, item 7 on 7 dec list) (persian 1530) 12 9 andrey vasilyev on iraq's announcement about release of hostages. (rpt hebrew 081600, item 8 on 8 dec list) (span 0100 0300 arabic 1400) 13 10 report on remarks by soviet peace committee mbr and a visiting kuwaiti official on gulf crisis and committee actions on the issue. (6 min: hebrew 1600) 14 11 anon on velayati's visit to france. (rpt persian 071530, item 10 on 7 dec list) (persian 1530) 15 USSR 16 12 igor vasilyev on moscow emergency conference of heads of govt firms attended by gorbachev. (rpt persian 071530, item 11 on 7 dec list) (persian 1530) 17 13 intvw with soviet rock group manager. (10 min: hebrew 1600) 18 14 music program: anon on soviet music and musicians. (24 min, incl music: span 0300) 19 Unpro: hebrew 1800 (endall) 10/1440z dec BT #5098 NNNN Approved for Release 2/2010
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