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This CIA release, approved in 2005, is a 1968 compilation of translated Soviet press items on scientific affairs. It centers on a 29 February 1968 PRAVDA article by Ye. Mustel, D. Martynov and V. Leshkovtsev, together with a TASS report on it. The article dismisses flying saucers as misidentified aircraft, balloons, satellites and optical effects. It says a luminous object over Sofia was a NATO sounding balloon and calls Adamski a charlatan. It also reports that the USSR Academy of Sciences found the UFO reports had no scientific foundation.
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# Approved For Release 2005/06/29 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010014-6 6 March 1968 dd 4 USSR SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS All the objects flying over our territory have been identified either by scientists or by those who stand guard over our motherland's security. If there really were such "unidentified flying objects," the scientists would be the first to extract vital information about them and investigate their nature. It is interesting to note that the question of the propaganda of "flying saucers" has become a subject of discussion at the USSR Academy of Sciences, in view of the reports about "unidentified flying objects" which keep cropping up in our newspapers and television broadcasts. The USSR Academy of Sciences general and applied physics department listened to a report delivered by Academician L. A. Artsimovich at a recent session of the subject of this propaganda, and noted that it had all the makings of unscientific sensationalism and that "these conjectures have no scientific foundation and the objects observed are well known phenomena." ## DETAILS ON 1-TEV ACCEIERATOR PROVIDED ## Bonn DIE WIRTSCHAFT DES OSTBLOCKS 16 Feb 68 p 6 X [Text] A model of a 1-trillion electron-volt accelerator has gone into operation in the Soviet Union. A new principle of acceleration will be tried on this model, since it should be possible in the future to build enormous installations for hundreds and thousands of billions of electron volts. The Soviet scientists who are working on the development of this project expect to obtain the greatest effect from the automatic control of the path of the accelerated particles. The coming "generation" of physical installations for 200 to 1,000 and more billion electron-volts will differ from the present large annular accelerators by having a special cybernetic system. With its 8.5-meter diameter installation having a 100-plate electromagnet with a total weight of 16 tons and a vacuum chamber with a cross section of 3 square centimeters, the Soviet design also presents practical proof that a proton beam can be directed through a minute chamber of the accelerator without loss. At present, experiments are being carried out on the model with protons which will be accelerated to an energy of 270 million electron volts. ## BRIEFS FAST BREEDER REACTORS--The BOR-60 fast research reactor will have a thermal output of 60 Mw. It is presently being constructed on the site of a Soviet nuclear research center. The reactor will serve primarily for the development and testing of the components of fast, high-temperature breeder reactors with sodium coolants. The first fuel elements for future high-capacity breeders will be tested in it, the start-up of the reactor is scheduled for 1968. The BN-350 reactor is being built on the banks of the Caspian Sea. It will have a thermal output of 1000 Mw. That is sufficient either for an electrical output of 350 Mw or, as is presently planned, for only 150 Mw and a daily production of 120,000 tons of distilled water for irrigation purposes. At present the BN-350 reactor is the largest fast reactor in the world. [Text] (Berlin NEUES DEUTSCHLAND 24 Feb 68 p 13 X)
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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.