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This unclassified CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service comlist, dated 12 June 1991, catalogs Moscow radio, television and TASS items broadcast that day. Entries are grouped by region and topic and cover the RSFSR presidential elections, Bessmertnykh's visit to Germany, Lukyanov in London, the G-7 summit, Afghanistan, Cambodia and Soviet military matters. Brief feature items mention a close encounter of the third kind reported by a Latvian couple and a listener's letter about flying objects.
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singers, quoting ingolstadt mayor on significance of soviet behavior to german reunification. (24 min: german 1700) 33 review soviet press on germany: pravda on soviet peace cmtee meeting german figures in bonn; kraznaya zvezda on soviet soldiers saving german citizens from drowning in havel river. (4 min: german 1600) TB1306143191TAKE2 40 NATO/WEST EUROPE 34 summary izvestiya on nato's course, expecting substantial nuclear weapons reduction in western europe, stressing main course should no longer be characterized by militarist features. (4 min: german 1600) 35 tass corr anatoliy shapovalov prague dispatch on 12 jun opening of assembly dealing with problems of european confederation, attended by political and cultural figures, scientists and jouranlists from all european countries, briefly quoting opening address by vaclav havel. text sent: tasse 2014) 43 36 intvw with vadim zagladin on european conf just opened in prague, says aims of conf on promotion of european coop and not meant to replace existing european institutions. (3 min, poor: enginter 1210 1510 1810 2110 enguk 2000 geman 1600 turkish 1800 hungarian 2000 serbo 2000 mand 1000 1400) 44 37 "good evening, austria." (rpt germaust 111925, item 32 on 11 jun list) (germaust 1925) 45 38 tass corr yuriy levchenko london dispatch on 12 jun address by anatoliy lukyanov, soviet parliament chmn, in royal institute of international relations, on soviet vision of problems connected with development of situation in europe, future of soviet-anglo relations and internal political situation in soviet union. (850 text, sent: tassr 1855; 400 text: tasse 2138; brief: enginter 2200 engna 2300) 46 39 v. shishkovskiy video report on lukyanov's arrival in london and meeting with british prime minister john major, briefly quoting lukyanov following meeting with major. (2.5 min: tv 1800) 47 40 london dispatch on hurd stmts on british govt's views on problems of eec integration. (approx 350 words: tassr 1509) 48 41 uk party party dep tom (day) on possible breakdown of ussr. (4 min: german 1600) 42 "newsreel of soviet-french friendship": account meeting of french ambassador to ussr with soviet social scientists; account meeting of soviet-french chamber of commerce; account visit of french military delegation in ussr, quoting head delegation. (30 min: frenchinter 111800) AFRICA 51 43 "africa as we see it." (rpt engafr 111630, item 35 on 11 jun list) (engafr 111930 0630) 52 44 "ussr-africa: contacts and contracts." (rpt engafr 091930, item 43 on 10 jun list) (engafr 1630) 53 45 "review african mail": nigerian gives info on his country, drawing parallels with multi-ethnic ussr; outline sports, hobbies in ussr; item in praise of moscow radio broadcasts. (8 min: engafr 1630) 54 46 intvw with (kustsisnova), soviet economic expert, on results of oau summit in abuja. (11 min: somali 111700) 55 47 summary novoye vremya on airlift of falashas from Ethiopia, citing meles zenawi condemning airlift, calling it trade in human beings. (5 min: amharic 1600 somali 1700) 56 48 intvw with ethiopian students in moscow on current situation in their
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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.