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This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS translation reproduces an IZVESTIYA article by A. Tarasov, published 26 October 1991, on the "Sverdlovsk syndrome." The illness left students and other harvest workers on Ural potato fields with toxic polyneuropathy. The article lists many suggested causes, from pesticides and thorium storage to military activity and UFOs, and gives Prof Ye. Krupin's view that imported pyrethroid pesticides were to blame. A postscript notes that a Russian Ministry of Health commission blamed combined factors and cleared the pesticides.
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## UNCLASSIFIED ## Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1992 Document 2 of 12 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Status: [STAT] Document Date: 26 Oct 91 Category: [CAT] Report Type: JPRS Report Report Date: Report Number: JPRS-ULS-92-003 UDC Number: Author(s): A. Tarasov, special correspondent for IZVESTIYA, filed in Yekaterinburg: ''The Battle to Get the Harvest In Ended With Victims: Once More About the Mystery of the Ural Fields''; first paragraph is source introduction] Headline: 'Sverdlovsk Syndrome' Studied Source Line: 927C0105B Moscow IZVESTIYA in Russian 26 Oct 91 p 2 Subslug: [Article by A. Tarasov, special correspondent for IZVESTIYA, filed in Yekaterinburg: ''The Battle to Get the Harvest In Ended With Victims: Once More About the Mystery of the Ural Fields''; first paragraph is source introduction] FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Article by A. Tarasov, special correspondent for IZVESTIYA, filed in Yekaterinburg: 'The Battle to Get the Harvest In Ended With Victims: Once More About the Mystery of the Ural Fields''; first paragraph is source introduction] 2. [Text] After another massive poisoning of students at the Krasnoufimskiy sovkhoz (see details in IZVESTIYA, No 221), the harvest contingents from Ural University abandoned the fields. But the chain of tragic and as yet unexplained incidents was not broken: soon after, new victims of the potato fields were hospitalized. 3. Ten of them were students from Sverdlovsk Institute of the National Economy. They had been gathering potatoes at the Chatlykovskiy sovkhoz, several dozen kilometers from the fields in which, in 1989, the phenomenon of the poisonous phantom was first officially recorded and about the same distance from the fields the unusual event had happened with the university students that fall. Two more stricken-students from Ural Polytechnical Institute. One had been doing a "'working semester'" in Kamenskiy Rayon of the oblast, the other in the Beloyarskiy Rayon. Cases of the illness had also been noted in the Sysertskiy and Polevskiy rayons. 4. There are a great multitude of versions of the cause of the incident. Among them are these: the sickness is the result of violations in the procedures for use of pesticides; the result of a complex of chemical compounds; acid rain; technogenic pollution formed in the course of the decomposition and interaction of a poison
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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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.