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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 III. 25 Oct 78 U S S R N A T I O N A L A F F A I R S T1 AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS GRAIN, LEGUMES THRESHED ON 116 MILLION HECTARES Moscow TASS in English 2226 GMT 24 Oct 73 L [Text] Moscow October 24 TASS--The harvesting of cereals is nearing completion in the USSR. Grain and legumes have been mowed and threshed on an area of over 116 million hectares, the Central Statistical Board of the USSR announced today. A good harvest was grown in the USSR this year and despite capricious weather conditions the peasants have taken it in time and without loss. CSA Report Moscow Domestic Service in Russian 1900 GMT 24 Oct 73 L More and more regions in the country report on the completion of the sowing of crops. The USSR Central Statistical Administration stated today that kolkhozes and sovkhozes have practically fulfilled the plan for the sowing of winter crops. At the start of this week they had sown an area of over 34 million hectares in the RSFSR, the Ukraine, Belorussia, Kazakhstan, and the Baltic republics. In the south of the country sowing is still in progress. Plowing of winter fallow has been completed on 80 percent of the total planned area. This work has been undertaken by dozens of farms in Central Asia and Azerbaydzhan. The harvesting of rice is proceeding faster than last year and it remains to be harvested on an area of 34,000 hectares in Uzbekistan, the Volga region and the Transcaucasus. On 18 Million hectares corn has been harvested, which is 99 percent of the total area under seed. In the south of the country indistinct] of the total area sown remains to be cleared and 300,000 hectares of sugar beets remain to be cleared on kolkhozes and sovkhozes. In the Ukraine the sugar beet
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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.