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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.
REGIONQS TOTAL. IT WAS THE SECOND ATTACK ON SHCHOKINA SINCE SHE HAD REFUSED A REQUEST BY NAZDRATENKOQS REPRESENTATIVES TO CANCEL THE PRINT RUN OF MOSKOSVSKIY KOMSOMOLETS, WHICH RAN A NUMBER OF SCATHING ARTICLES ABOUT THE GOVERNOR DURING THE 1999 ELECTION CAMPAIGN. THE GOVERNORQS OFFICE AFTER MUCH PROMPTING, SAID IT HAD NO INFORMATION ON THE ATTACK AND WOULD SEND INQUIRIES TO FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND PRIMORYEQS FEDERAL INSPECTOR, PAVEL LYSOV. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: PUTIN RENEWS THE CHALLENGE ## 16. THE EARLY RETIREMENT OF YELQTSIN AND THE ARRIVAL Q OF VLADIMIR PUTIN ON THE RUSSIAN POLITICAL SCENE PUT AN END TO NAZDRATENKOQS DREAM OF RULING HIS FIEFDOM BY THE SEA WITH MAJESTIC IMPUNITY. NAZDRATENKO AND HIS COLLEAGUES CONTINUED WITH THEIR STRATEGY OF SUPPORTING THE CENTER IN EXCHANGE FOR NON-INTERFERENCE, WITH LIMITED SUCCESS. THEY JOINED THE YEDINSTVO PARTY, AND TURNED IT INTO THE PREEMINENT POLITICAL PARTY IN PRIMORYE. NAZDRATENKO ALSO ATTEMPTED TO ENHANCE HIS CLOUT BY REGULAR TRIPS TO MOSCOW AND LIBERAL DISPENSATIONS FROM HIS "ZELYONYY CHEMODANCHIK" (SUITCASE FULL OF MONEY). 17. AT FIRST, THIS STRATEGY APPEARED TO BE WORKING. NAZDRATENKO WAS ABLE TO GAIN PUTINQS BLESSING TO DEAL HARSHLY WITH THE ONE REMAINING GOVERNMENT BODY IN VLADIVOSTOK NOT DOING HIS BIDDING: THE PRIMORYE ARBITRATION COURT. THIS BODY HAD RULED IN A NUMBER OF BANKRUPTCY CASES AGAINST THE BUSINESS INTERESTS OF NAZDRATENKO AND HIS CRONIES. TATYANA LOKTIONOVA, THE QREBELLIOUSQ CHAIRPERSON OF THE ARBITRATION COURT, WAS UNCLAS SECTION 06 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 DISMISSED AFTER AN INVESTIGATIVE TEAM WAS SENT OUT FROM MOSCOW. 18. HOWEVER, RECENT DEVELOPMENTS SUGGEST THAT NAZDRATENKO HAS FALLEN OUT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTQS FAVOR AND IS IN DANGER OF BEING OUSTED FROM THE GOVERNORQS SEAT. EARLY IN HIS TERM, PUTIN BEGAN REASSERTING THE CONTROL OF THE CENTER OVER THE REGIONS. SEVEN PRESIDENTIAL REPRESENTATIVES, OR QSUPERGOVERNORSQ WERE APPOINTED TO OVERSEE THE WORK OF VAST REGIONS. THE ARRIVAL IN KHABAROVSK OF GENERAL KONSTANTIN PULIKOVSKIY, PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY TO 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.