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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.
“Norfolk”4 pages
OF THOSE WITHOUT, AND NOT THOSE WITHIN. IT IS ALSO UNLIKELY, HOWEVER, THAT HE WILL LAST AS LONG AS BELARUSIAN LEADER LUKASHENKO, WHOSE PEOPLE ARE LEGENDARY FOR THEIR POLITICAL PASSIVITY, AND WHO HAVE MANY YEARS TO GO BEFORE THEY WAKE FROM THEIR POLITICAL SLEEP. WHAT IS MOST LIKELY IS THAT AT SOME POINT, A STRONGER CENTER WILL REASSERT ITS POWER OVER PRIMORYE, AND DRIVE NAZDRATENKO FROM OFFICE. WORD ON THE STREET IN VLADIVOSTOK IS THAT PUTIN IS GIVING NAZDRATENKO UNTIL JUNE TO STRAIGHTEN THINGS OUT BEFORE TAKING DECISIVE ACTION. THIS MAY SIMPLY BE WISHFUL THINKING, BUT THERE IS LITTLE DOUBT THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE OF PRIMORYE WOULD BREATHE A SIGH OF RELIEF SHOULD NAZDRATENKO BE REMOVED. IN THE MEANTIME, THE PEOPLE OF PRIMORYE WILL CONTINUE TO ENDURE THEIR SUMMERS AND WINTERS OF DISCONTENT, AND TO HOPE THAT THE FUEL WILL LAST. SCHUMAKER TOR: 12/14/00 23:09:35 DIST: SIT: BLACK NSC DAVIDSON ELKIND FISHEL HARRISON HINCKLEY MEDISH STRICKLAND WEISS WOLOSKY
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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.