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This is a Joint Publications Research Service translation, report JPRS-USP-91-002, of a KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA article from 22 September 1990 by correspondent Ye. Chernykh in Prague. It takes up a Hungarian book by I. Nemere that claims Yuriy Gagarin did not make the 12 April 1961 flight. It quotes the Czechoslovak space writer Karel Patsner, who rejects the rumors of hidden cosmonaut deaths, citing James Oberg, Charles Sheldon's congressional report and CIA archive documents. UFOs come up only in passing, as an outdated sensation.
“Kapustin Yar”1 page
## UNCLASSIFIED ## Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1991 ## Document 3 of 10 I come to Czechoslovakia next time, you will know who I am.' Korolev was opposed to the veils of secrecy, but... There is nothing we can do, both you in the Soviet Union and we have to endure what has already died down in the West. The preachers, who have undertaken to cure the masses suffering from all kinds of illnesses, and the UFOs, which were of interest to a lot of people there, but which are now of interest to only individual groups. Those same outdated sensationalisms...'
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.