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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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PREC: PRIORITY CLASS: UNCLASSIFIED LINE1: PAAUZYUW RUEHVKA0678 3501136-UUUU--RHEHAAX. LINE2: ZNR UUUUU ZZH LINE3: P 151136Z DEC 00 LINE4: FM AMCONSUL VLADIVOSTOK OSRI: RUEHVK DTG: ORIG: AMCONSUL VLADIVOSTOK TO: RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 2403 RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW 2746 INFO: RUEHYG/AMCONSUL YEKATERINBURG 0608 RUEHLN/AMCONSUL ST PETERSBURG 0719 RUEHSK/AMEMBASSY MINSK 0008 RUEHKV/AMEMBASSY KIEV 0003 RUEHNO/USMISSION USNATO 0003 RUEHPG/AMEMBASSY PRAGUE 0002 SUBJ: TO LIVE AND DIE IN PRIMORYE: THE STRANGE WORLD OF YEVGENIY NAZDRATENKO TEXT: UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 07 VLADIVOSTOK 0678 E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PGOV, PREL, RS, BO, UP SUBJECT: TO LIVE AND DIE IN PRIMORYE: THE STRANGE WORLD OF YEVGENIY NAZDRATENKO TO LIVE AND DIE IN PRIMORYE: THE STRANGE WORLD OF YEVGENIY NAZDRATENKO ---------------- INTRODUCTION AND COMMENT 1. FOR THE PAST SEVEN YEARS, THE HISTORY OF THE PRIMORYE REGION, AND VLADIVOSTOK IN PARTICULAR, HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN THE FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF ONE MAN: PRIMORYE GOVERNOR YEVGENIY IVANOVICH NAZDRATENKO. THE STOCKY METALWORKER AND WOULD-BE RED DIRECTOR WAS FIRST APPOINTED TO THE POST OF GOVERNOR BY FORMER PRESIDENT YELQTSIN IN 1993. BY ALMOST ANY OBJECTIVE STANDARD, HIS STEWARDSHIP OF PRIMORYE HAS BEEN DISASTROUS, AT LEAST IN TERMS OF THE WELFARE OF THE 2.2 MILLION CITIZENS HE IS CHARGED WITH GOVERNING. NONETHELESS, HE HAS WON RE-ELECTION TWICE BY LOPSIDED MARGINS, AND IS NO DOUBT CONTEMPLATING RUNNING FOR A THIRD TERM IN 2003. WHAT IS HIS SECRET? 2. IT TURNS OUT THAT NAZDRATENKOQS POLITICAL CAREER
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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.