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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.
14. NOT THE LEAST OF NAZDRATENKOQS OBJECTIVES OVER THE PAST DECADE HAS BEEN THE TAMING OF PRIMARYEQS BOISTEROUS FREE PRESS. HE HAS SUCCEEDED FOR THE MOST PART, DRIVING MANY SMALL NEWSPAPERS OUT OF BUSINESS, AND MUZZLING MANY OF THOSE THAT REMAIN. NAZDRATENKO EXERTS SIMILAR CONTROL OVER THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA. LATE LAST YEAR, THE DIRECTOR OF THE INDEPENDENT RADIO STATION RADIO LEMMA WAS CALLED IN BY A LOCAL OFFICIAL UNCLAS SECTION 05 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 AND TOLD TO WATCH HIS STEP AS HE CROSSED THE STREET, LEST HE QHAVE AN ACCIDENT.Q THE DIRECTOR GOT THE MESSAGE, AND RADIO LEMMA HAS TONED DOWN ITS BROADCASTS IN PRIMORYE. IN LATE 1999, THE FAR EAST EDITION OF MOSKOSVSKIY KOMSOMOLETS RAN A HEADLINE SATIRIZING NAZDRATENKOQS ELECTION CAMPAIGN SLOGAN QTO LIVE AND WORK IN PRIMORYE.Q DISPLAYING THE PICTURE OF A DEAD BODY ON ITS FRONT PAGE, IT LED WITH THE HEADLINE QTO LIVE AND DIE IN PRIMORYE.Q THIS WAS PROBABLY AN ATTEMPT TO SATIRIZE THE OVER-ROSY VIEW THE LARQLY NAZDRATENKO-CONTROLLED MEDIA SOUGHT TO PAINT OF THEIR GLORIOUS LEADER. ALSO, PERHAPS UNCONSCIOUSLY, IT ECHOED THE THEME OF A PARTICULARLY UNSATISFACTORY AMERICAN MOVIE, QTO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.,Q WHICH TELLS THE STORY OF TWO POLICEMEN WHO, IN THEIR PURSUIT OF A NOTORIOUS GANGSTER, DESCEND TO HIS OWN MORAL LEVEL. WHATEVER THE MOTIVATION BEHIND THE PIECE, IT ENRAGED NAZDRATENKO AND HIS ENTOURAGE. THE END RESULT WAS THAT THE MOSCOW HEADQUARTERS OF THE NEWSPAPER PRONOUNCED IT BIASED AND PROMPTLY INSTALLED A CENSOR, PROMPTING THE RESIGNATION OF ONE OF THE EDITORS WHO HAD AUTHORED THE PIECE. THE VLADIVOSTOK NEWS FACES SIMILAR PRESSURES, AND APPEARS TO HAVE BUCKLED TO THEM. AND IN EARLY DECEMBER, TWO REPORTERS FROM ORT TELEVISIONQS FAR EAST BUREAU WERE FIRED AND REPLACED BY TWO REPORTERS WHO OPENLY SUPPORT NAZDRATENKO. ZAVTRA ROSSII, WHICH PUBLISHED THE KONDRATOV REPORT (SEE PARA 8) WAS DRIVEN OUT OF BUSINESS. RECENTLY, WE CONTACTED THE EDITOR OF THAT NEWSPAPER, AND SHE DENIED EVER HAVING RUN THE KONDRATOV STORY. 15. A CLIMATE OF FEAR HAS TAKEN OVER IN THE PRIMORYE PRESS CORPS, AND IT IS NOT JUST BECAUSE OF THE THREAT OF BEING PUT OUT OF BUSINESS OR THROWN OUT OF A JOB. ON DECEMBER 6, MAYA SHCHOKINA, THE DIRECTOR OF VLADIVOSTOKQS DALPRESS, WAS SHOT AND CRITICALLY WOUNDED BY TWO UNIDENTIFIED GUNMEN. DALPRESS IS THE MAJOR STATE-RUN PUBLISHING FIRM IN PRIMORYE, PUBLISHING 87 NEWSPAPERS, OR 90 PERCENT OF THE
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 64 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.