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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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REGION AND SHOULD NOT OCCUPY THE POSITIONS FOR WHICH THEY WERE ELECTED OR APPOINTED.Q 22. SINCE THEN, NAZDRATENKOQS TEAM HAS FAILED TO CURB THE ENERGY CRISIS IN PRIMORYE, THE EXTENT OF WHICH HAS UNCLAS SECTION 07 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 BEEN SO SERIOUS THAT IT MADE THE MAJOR NEWS IN ALL FEDERAL AND REGIONAL MASS MEDIA, AS OVER 90,000 PEOPLE WERE LEFT TOTALLY WITHOUT HEAT FOR EXTENDED PERIODS IN SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES. PUTIN CALLED THE SITUATION QA CRYING SHAME,Q WHILE UNITED ENERGY SYSTEMS HEAD ANATOLIY CHUBAYS BLAMED NAZDRATENKOQS INCOMPETENT MANAGEMENT FOR THE PROBLEM. HE NOTED, IN PARTICULAR, THAT QWE CAN DELIVER THE HEAT, BUT WE CANNOT CHANNEL IT THROUGH THE DESTROYED MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE.Q NAZDRATENKO COUNTERED, IMPLAUSIBLY, THAT HIS TEAM COULD NOT SOLVE THE CRISIS BECAUSE PRIMORYE WAS OWED OVER 5 BILLION RUBLES BY THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIES. 23. IN LATE NOVEMBER, NAZDRATENKO LEFT FOR MOSCOW QTO SOLVE THE ENERGY PROBLEM RESULTING FROM HIGHER-THAN EXPECTED COSTS OF FUEL AND NONPAYMENT OF FEDERAL DEBTS TO PRIMORYE,Q WHERE HE REMAINED FOR OVER A WEEK. WHILE THERE, HE MET WITH PUTIN, PRIME MINISTER KASYANOV AND NUMEROUS DUMA DEPUTIES. SIGNIFICANTLY, WHILE MANY DEPUTIES WERE CRITICAL OF NAZDRATENKO, HE RECEIVED STRONG SUPPORT FROM ZYUGANOVQS COMMUNISTS AND ZHIRINOVSKIYQS LIBERAL DEMOCRATS (THEY KNOW A LIKE-MINDED AUTOCRAT WHEN THEY SEE ONE). NAZDRATENKO RETURNED TO PRIMORYE WITH PROMISES OF FEDERAL INFUSIONS OF CASH, BUT WITH FEW NEW PLACES TO TURN OR PEOPLE TO BLAME IF THE HEAT STAYS OFF IN PRIMORYE. PUTIN, LIKE A CALCULATING FISHERMAN, IS SLOWLY DRAWING THE NET AROUND NAZDRATENKO, THE BIGGEST FISH OF ALL. ## HOW WILL IT END? 24. LIKE HIS POLITICAL CONTEMPORARIES, NAZDRATENKO FACES A FUNDAMENTAL AND INESCAPABLE PROBLEM: HE IS PLAYING A LOSERQS GAME. IN THE END, IF HE DOES NOT PROVIDE FOR THE SECURITY AND WELFARE OF HIS OWN PEOPLE, THEY WILL TURN ON HIM, AND HIS HOLD ON POWER, NO MATTER HOW ABSOLUTE IT MAY APPEAR IN THE SHORT TERM, WILL EVENTUALLY COLLAPSE. IT IS UNLIKELY THAT HE WILL SUFFER THE FATE OF FORMER SERBIAN LEADER MILOSEVIC, WHOSE OWN PEOPLE DROVE HIM OUT OF OFFICE, AFTER TAKING OVER A DECADE TO AWAKEN FROM THEIR DELUSION THAT SERBIAQS MISFORTUNES WERE ALL THE FAULT
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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.