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This Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) monitoring message, dated 20 April 1991, corrects an earlier transcript of a Soviet television interview with the Air Defense Forces chief, Army General Tretyak. It restores passages covering a readiness briefing by duty officer Colonel Denisov, including one radar station out of action. Asked about flying saucers over Moscow, Tretyak says UFO questions involve many myths and tall stories. He adds that one event near Moscow was tracked by radar and turned out not to be a UFO.
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*** BEGIN MESSAGE 30 *** SERIAL=LD2004222191 CLASS=UNCLAS 3P/PMU/SU MIS 304 UNCLAS 3P/PMU/SU MIS 304 SERIAL: LD2004222191 PASS: ATTN TV CENTER ATTN BBC RDSUP COPY TO DEPUTY C COPY TO DEPUTY CHIEF CHIEF COUNTRY: USSR SUBJ: CORRECTION -- AIR DEFENSE FORCES CHIEF INTERVIEWED REF: 1. WA1904201791 ANSWERING DAILY REPORT 3Z TEXT: CAMOUFLAGED BUNKER.)) ((UNIDENTIFIED OFFICER)) ((PASSAGE INDISTINCT)) ((DENISOV)) COMRADE ARMY GENERAL, THERE ARE NO (?AIR TARGETS WITHIN) ((WORD INDISTINCT)). (?DUTY ASSETS ARE READY FOR ACTION; READINESS LEVELS TWO, THREE, AND FOUR.) OPERATIONAL DUTY OFFICER COLONEL DENISOV. ((TRETYAK)) GOOR MORNING. ((WORDS INDISTINCT.)) GENTLEMEN. ((DENISOV)) GENTLEMEN. ((DENISOV)) ACCORDING TO TODAY'S PLAN, COMRADE ARMY GENERAL, THERE ARE 386 REPORTS, 386 AIRCRAFT SORTIES. BY NOW WE HAVE PROCESSED 180 AIRBORNE PLANES. ALL OF THESE PLANES ARE OURS. TODAY, ACCORDING TO THE FORMATION COMMANDER'S PLAN, WE ARE CONDUCTING TACTICAL TRAINING WITH TWO UNITS. WE ARE EXPECTING EIGHT FIGHTERS AS CONTROL TARGETS AND ONE LOW-ALTITUDE, LOW-SIGNATURE ONE, SUCH AS THE MI-8. THAT'S AT 1500. ((TRETYAK)) SO YOU ALREADY KNOW THE TIME WHEN THEY ARE TO COME? COMRADE ARMY GENERAL. THAT'S US CHECKING THE UNITS. ((TRETYAK)) I SEE. THAT'S RIGHT. THEN IT'S FINE. FINE. WHAT ((DENISOV)) WELL, COMRADE ARMY GENERAL, I CAN REPORT THAT AT THIS MOMENT THE EQUIPMENT IS 100 PERCENT READY FOR ACTION. ((TRETYAK)) IN THE ZRV ((ZENITNO-RAKETNYYE VOYSKA)) ((ANTI- AIRCRAFT·MISSILE TROOPS)) ? ((DENISOV)) IN THE ZRV. ((TRETYAK)) AND IN THE (?RTV) (?RADAR TROOPS)? ((DENISOV)) IN THE (?RTV) ONE RADAR STATION IS OUT OF ACTION. ((TRETYAK)) WHICH ONE? ((DENISOV)) WELL, 50 ((CASTS WARNING LOOK TOWARD THE CAMERA)) 55- ZH-6. ((TRETYAK)) I SEE. WHAT MEASURES HAVE BEEN TAKEN? ((DENISOV)) WELL, MEASURES, REPORTS HAVE BEEN SENT TO THE EQUIPMENT BODIES AND WE ARE TRYING TO PUT IT RIGHT WITH OUR OWN RESOURCES. ((TRETYAK)) HAS A REPAIR CREW BEEN CALLED OUT? ((DENISOV)) YES SIR. A REPAIR CREW HAS BEEN CALLED OUT. ((TRETYAK)) GET A REPAIR CREW ONTO IT. ((DENISOV)) YES SIR. ((VIDEO SHOWS TRETYAKOV//SUPPLYING OMITTED PASSAGE, DELETING EDITOR'S NOTE. UNCLAS 3P/PMU/SU MIS 304 Approved for Release 212010
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