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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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THE INEVITABLE ACCUSATIONS OF FRAUD AND VOTE-TAMPERING. HE HAS ALSO MARGINALIZED MUCH OF HIS LOCAL OPPOSITION, AND, UP TO NOW, HE HAS SUCCESSFULLY FENDED OFF THE RELATIVELY FEEBLE EFFORTS OF THE CENTER TO BRING HIM INTO LINE. NAZDRATENKO VERSUS YELQTSIN 7. AS HE HAS EXPANDED HIS POLITICAL POWER, AND AS EVIDENCE OF HIS MISRULE HAS ACCUMULATED, NAZDRATENKO AND HIS ALLIES HAVE HAD TO SPEND INCREASING AMOUNTS OF TIME AND ENERGY FENDING OFF ATTEMPTS BY MOSCOW TO REASSERT ITS AUTHORITY IN THE REGION. IN JUNE, 1997 UNCLAS SECTION 03 OF 07 VLADIVOSTOK 0678 UNCLASSIFIED E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PGOV, PREL, RS, BO, UP SUBJECT: TO LIVE AND DIE IN PRIMORYE: THE STRANGE WORLD OF YEVGENIY NAZDRATENKO PRESIDENT YELQTSIN APPOINTED THEN-FSB PRIMORYE CHIEF VIKTOR KONDRATOV AS HIS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE REGION, GIVING HIM THE POWER TO CONTROL THE ISSUANCE OF LUCRATIVE FISHING AND TIMBER QUOTAS AND OTHER FINANCIAL POWERS, BUT PRESUMABLY ALSO CHARGING HIM TO ACCUMULATE QKOMPROMATQ ON THE WILY GOVERNOR. 8. KONDRATOV DID HIS JOB, AND FILED A REPORT WITH STARTLING DETAILS ON THE LINKS BETWEEN MANY OF NAZDRATENKOQS DEPUTIES AND ORGANIZED CRIME FIGURES (THE SHORT VERSION OF THE KONDRATOV REPORT, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED LAST YEAR IN QZAVTRA ROSSII,Q IS ATTACHED TO THE E-GRAM VERSION OF THIS MESSAGE). AMONG OTHER THINGS, KONDRATOV ALLEGED THAT NAZDRATENKOQS MINIONS SYSTEMATICALLY USED LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND ORGANIZED CRIME FIGURES TO ENHANCE THEIR PROFITS, STOLE MONEY INTENDED TO BUY FUEL OIL, AND ORGANIZED A SYNDICATE TO SMUGGLE GOODS VIA CHECHNYA. NAZDRATENKOQS PRINCIPAL DEPUTY, KONSTANTIN TOLSTOSHEYN, WAS ALLEGED TO HAVE: COLLABORATED WITH OC GROUP LEADER ALEKSEYENKOV TO SELL THE VLADIVOSTOK HOTEL AND SKIM OFF THE PROFITS; TO HAVE ORGANIZED THE SYSTEMATIC COERCION OF COMMERCIAL COMPETITORS WITH THE HELP OF OC LEADERS, AS WELL AS THE ABDUCTION OF UNFRIENDLY JOURNALISTS; AND TO HAVE USED MEMBERS OF VLADIVOSTOKQS PRINCIPAL OC GROUPS TO PROVIDE SECURITY FOR HIS MANY ENTERPRISES. VICE GOVERNOR CHECHELNITSKIY WAS ALLEGED TO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN FUEL THEFT IN COOPERATION WITH OC FIGURES (THE CASE WAS DROPPED DUE TO CHECHELNITSKIYQS QSUDDEN DEATHQ), AND FORMER VICE GOVERNOR SADOMSKIY WAS ALLEGED TO HAVE PARTICIPATED THE CHECHNYA SMUGGLING SCHEME NOTED ABOVE. IN ALL, SIX VICE GOVERNORS WERE NAMED IN THE
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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.