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This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency monitoring list, dated 11 May 1991, catalogs Soviet radio, television and TASS items from that day's broadcasts. It covers Gorbachev's call with George Bush, Foreign Minister Bessmertnykh's meeting with Egypt's President Mubarak, Victory Day anniversary programs, the crises in Yugoslavia and the Transcaucasus, and the RSFSR presidential election campaign. Its only UFO content is a Korean-language listener mailbag program noting that some listeners wanted to know about unidentified flying objects.
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tassr 1535) 55 aleksandr shakhin on crisis in yugoslavia, noting forthcoming replacement of chmn of collective presidency, recalling real threat of civil war during last two weeks, says collective presidency's package of measures to stabilize situation and decision to start talks is regarded as first sign of hope. (3.5 min: enginter 1210 1510 1810 2110 spanish 2100 greek 2000 arabic 1500 romanian 1700 polish 1600 serbo 2000) MILITARY 75 56 gorbachev address at 9 may kremlin meeting with activists of soviet young servicemen. (c/r mayak 100949, item 57 on 9 may list) (brief: tasse 0558 tassr 0006) 76 57 aleksandr barabeychik, dedicated to 46th anniversary of anti-hitler coalition victory during WWII, intvw with briton pamela (mayster) describing her meetings with soviet women in murmansk involved in caring for british sailors. (5 min: enginter 102300) 77 58 viktor glazunov on anniv of victory over nazi germany. (9 min: romanian 1700) 78 59 intvw with war veterans who participated in battles for liberation of central europe in 1945. (5 min: romanian 1700) 79 60 radio montage devoted to anniv of victory day. (8 min: romanian 1700) 80 61 president soviet war veterans assn on 9 may anniv of defeat of nazism, recalling hardships, courage of soviet soldiers. (3 min: portbraz 0000) 81 62 aleksandr yakovlev reviewing book 'inside the soviet military.' (rpt enginter 282300, item 64 on 28 apr list) (enginter 102300) 82 63 report on (carrie scoefield), british writer's book, on soviet armed forces, incl intvw with writer. (10 min: hungarian 102000) 64 "radar - i serve the soviet union": incl matvey frolov intvw with maj.gen. anatoliy obukhov, military commissar of leningrad, on alarming situation in call-up of raw recruits for armed service, assessing reasons for call-up evasion in leningrad. (5 min, sent: home 1515) 84 SPACE/SCIENCE 85 65 tass corr andrey chytov new york dispatch on announcement by david meyer and james davidson, owners of texan space travel services, that they are scrapping plans to send an american aboard soviet spaceship on visit to soviet mir space station, giving reasons for decision. (300 text sent: tasse 2159) 86 TB1205090391TAKE4 87 48 reports on gorbachev's third meeting with gen sec of viet comparty, nguyen van linh, with gist remarks exchanged. (300 text sent: tasse 1704; 1.5 min, sent: mayak 1530; 2-1 min: tv 1800 home 1600 enginter 1700 1800 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300 spanla 2300 greek 2000 turkish 1830 serbo 2000; brief: afrikaans 1900) 88 ASIA/PACIFIC 49 "focus on asia": anon on whether united nations can play role of superviser to overseas truce, banned weapons supplies in cambodian question (3 min); anon on rok press reports that u.s. begins study of removing nuclear weapons from dprk (3.5 min, sent: korean 1200) 90 50 anon on japanese decision to conduct military exercise in hawaii. (3.5 min: korean 1000 mand 1400 1000) 91 EAST EUROPE 92 51 report on bulgarian woman doctor running med center. (5 min: mand 0700) 93 52 vladimir orlov intvw with veteran military pilot who received gold
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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.