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This Clinton Presidential Library folder holds NSC cables from January 1999 to December 2000, filed under the heading "Flying Saucer or UFO". A withdrawal sheet lists eleven cables that were withheld in full or in part under Presidential Records Act and FOIA restrictions. The released cables include an FBIS summary of a Bogota TV newscast, which notes that a UFO photograph printed by El Espectador was a hoax. They also include a US Embassy Beijing report on Quanzhou, Fujian, and a Vladivostok cable on Governor Yevgeniy Nazdratenko.
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## UNCLAS SECTION 04 OF 09 BEIJING 000475 WHITE HOUSE FOR OSTP/DBEHRING AND OVP DEPT FOR EAP/CM AND PRM/POP/MARGARET POLLACK DEPT PASS USAID/POPULATION/BARBARA CRANE USDA FAS FOR CMP, ARS, AND ERS STATE PASS USTR FOR CASSIDY AND POPOVICH E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: SENV, SOCI, ECON, EAGR, PGOV, NTDB, UNFPA, CH SUBJECT: QUANZHOU, FUJIAN -- A TRAVELER'S TALE OFFICE ON RESOLUTELY OPPOSING AND STOPPING THE FALSIFICATION OF STATISTICS". A DECEMBER 22 FRONT PAGE COMMENTARY IN THE FUJIAN CAPITAL CITY NEWSPAPER FUZHOU RIBAO EXPLAINED THE REASONS FOR THIS CAMPAIGN. 12. "A FUJIAN PROVINCE STATISTICAL REGULATIONS ENFORCEMENT GROUP THROUGH FORMAL INVESTIGATIONS AND UNDERCOVER WORK DISCOVERED THAT SOME UNITS KEEP TWO SETS OF BOOKS. SOME UNITS MAKE FALSE REPORTS ABOUT THEIR PRODUCTION AND INCOME. THEY MAKE EXAGGERATED REPORTS TO SUPERVISORY UNITS IN ORDER TO WIN AWARDS. TO THE TAX DEPARTMENTS THEY REPORT VERY LOW FIGURES SO AS TO EVADE TAXATION. SOME RURAL ORGANIZATIONS UNDERREPORT THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS ABOVE FAMILY PLANNING TARGETS AS WELL AS CRIME STATISTICS. THEY MAKE FALSE REPORTS SO AS TO ATTRACT BUSINESSES AND INVESTMENT. ALL THESE FALSIFICATIONS ARE THE WORK OF INDIVIDUALS OR SMALL GROUPS OF PEOPLE. 13. "THE FALSIFICATION OF STATISTICS IS SPREADING IN SOME REGIONS AND IN SOME DEPARTMENTS. THE BASIC REASON IS THAT THE LEADERS OF THESE REGIONS AND DEPARTMENTS WANT TO SHOW THEY HAVE "GLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS". IN THIS WAY THEY COUNT ON WINNING THE TRUST OF HIGHER LEVELS AND PROMOTIONS. THEY REPORT GOOD NEWS BUT NOT BAD NEWS. THEY PUFF UP ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIDE SHORTCOMINGS. THEY PLAY ALL KINDS OF GAMES WITH STATISTICS. ON THE OTHER HAND, MANY HIGHER-UPS JUST ACCEPT THE REPORTS AND READ THE STATISTICS. THEY NEVER GO OUT THEMSELVES TO TAKE A LOOK AND SO THEY ARE VERY EASILY FOOLED. IN SOME REGIONS AND DEPARTMENTS, THERE ARE LEADERS WHO INSIST THAT UNREALISTIC GOALS AND VERY DIFFICULT TASKS BE ACHIEVED AND APPLY PRESSURE AT EACH LEVEL. THE NATURAL RESULT IS TO FORCE UP ALL KINDS OF TRASH FROM BELOW. 14. "THE FALSE STATISTICS CRISIS IS VERY GRAVE. THE BAD STATISTICS PUT FALSE INFORMATION IN THE HANDS OF LEADERS AT EVERY LEVEL. THE RESULTS OF BAD INFORMATION IS VERY OFTEN BAD DECISIONS. THE BAD STATISTICS PROVIDE FALSE INFORMATION TO THE MARKET AND TO COMPANIES. THIS CAN VERY EASILY LEAD TO A BUBBLE ECONOMY. FALSE STATISTICS ARE A SERIOUS THREAT TO THE CHINESE NATION. FALSE STATISTICS DAMAGE THE WORK AND INTERESTS OF THE STATE AND OF PEOPLE IN EVERY AREA. THEY ALSO DAMAGE THE AUTHORITY AND CREDIBILITY OF THE GOVERNMENT", CONCLUDED THE FUZHOU RIBAO FRONT PAGE COMMENTARY.
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Official release, from the nara 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. 64 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.