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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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RUEHIA/USIA WASHINGTON DC//R// ACCT FBWA-EWDK INFO: ///// SUBJ: Bogota TV Summary 081730: BOG 99-005 TEXT: UNCLAS 6Z WARNING: FTS_DOC_ID: FTS19990108001239 WARNING: A VIDEOTAPE OF THE PROGRAM SUMMARIZED BELOW CAN BE ORDERED FROM FBIS BY CALLING (b)(3) BETWEEN 0800 AND 1600 EST OR BY FAXING AN ORDER TO (b)(3) PLEASE SUPPLY THE TAPE NUMBER (FOUND ON SUBJECT LINE), YOUR NAME, PHONE NUMBER, AND OFFICE ADDRESS. TAPES NOT ORDERED WITHIN 30 DAYS WILL BE ERASED. WARNING: TOPIC: POLITICAL,ECONOMIC,DOMESTIC,INTERNATIONAL SERIAL: (b)(3)801190199 PASS: ATTN BBC LATAM ATTN BBC VIDEO ATTN BBC PART5 COPY TO (b)(3) COUNTRY: COLOMBIA SUBJ: Bogota TV Summary 081730: BOG 99-005 SOURCE: Santa Fe de Bogota Inravision Television Canal A Network in Spanish 1730 GMT 8 Jan 99 TEXT: ["National Newscast"; monitored from live relay by Lima Sistema Unido de Retransmision Television; figures in brackets indicate time in minutes elapsed since start of program] [FBIS Report] 1. [00] Headlines. 2. [02] Video report: Paramilitaries killed at least 30 alleged FARC, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, informers in the Uraba's banana growing region. Paramilitaries attacked on all four points of Antioquia with the Uraba region being the worst hit. Antioquia Paz Adviser Ruben Dario Jaramillo this is a reaction to what happened in Nudo de Paramillo and a dispute for control over the region. The vigilante groups also carried selective assassinations in Toledo, San Carlos and Salgar. Antioquia Government Secretary Nestor Hincapie reported that in all 30 people may have been killed. The authorities in Uraba are continuing the search in farms to find more victims. Video of corpses, soldiers removing bodies; Jaramillo, Hincapie talking to a reporter. (texting) 3. [05] Video report: Presumed paramilitaries killed 11 people in Santa Isabel Corregimiento, Cesar Department, in the early morning hours of today. According to a preliminary investigation, 30 men dragged the victims out of their homes. One of the victims is elderly woman who was burned in her home. The Cesar Police
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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.