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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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medal of soviet-polish friendship society at ceremony in moscow on victory day, on his wartime experiences. (3 min: enginter 1210 1510 1810 spanish 2100 serbo 2000; anon: spanla 2300) 53 warsaw corr vladimir mikhaylenko on economic difficulties in poland. (rpt portbraz 102300, item 71 on 10 may list) (spanish 102100) 54 tass corr vasiliy arbekov bucharest dispatch on rising tension in romanian villages densely populated with ukrainian nationals, citing rompres agency reports, detailing reasons for tension. (300 text sent: 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 98 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) 99 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) 100 58 viktor glazunov on anniv of victory over nazi germany. (9 min: romanian 1700) 101 59 intvw with war veterans who participated in battles for liberation of central europe in 1945. (5 min: romanian 1700) 102 60 radio montage devoted to anniv of victory day. (8 min: romanian 1700) 103 61 president soviet war veterans assn on 9 may anniv of defeat of nazism, recalling hardships, courage of soviet soldiers. (3 min: portbraz 0000) 104 62 aleksandr yakovlev reviewing book 'inside the soviet military.' (rpt enginter 282300, item 64 on 28 apr list) (enginter 102300) 105 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) 107 SPACE/SCIENCE 108 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) 109 TB1205090391TAKE4 110 66 "science and engineering." (rpt enginter 100710, item 81 on 10 may list) (enginter 102300) 111 67 brazzaville dispatch on soviet participation in setting up satellite communications stations in africa, san francisco and london. (approx 850 words: tassr 1054) 112 NATIONALITIES 113 68 vitaliy gurov on agenda for talks at recent meeting between gorbachev and leaders of nine soviet republics. (rpt enginter 101210, item 83 on 10
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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.