Documents / Official release
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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## Cable PREC: ROUTINE CLASS: UNCLASSIFIED LINE1: RAAUZYUW RUEHBJA0475 0141011-UUUU--RHEHAAA. LINE2: ZNR UUUUU ZZH LINE3: R 141011Z JAN 99 LINE4: FM AMEMBASSY BEIJING OSRI: RUEHBJ DTG: 141011Z JAN 99 ORIG: AMEMBASSY BEIJING TO: RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 8906 INFO: RUEHSH/AMCONSUL SHENYANG 9746 RUESLE/AMCONSUL SHANGHAI 6934 RUEHGZ/AMCONSUL GUANGZHOU 5261 RUEHZN/ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLECTIVE RUEHZU/APEC COLLECTIVE RHEHAAA/WHITE HOUSE WASHDC RUEAEPA/HQEPA WASHDC RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHDC RUPCPCIM/CIMS NTDB WASHDC RHEBAAA/USDOE WASHDC RUEHRC/USDA FAS WASHDC 3215 (b)(3) RUEKDIA/DIA WASHDC RUEHIA/USIA WASHDC 0458 ZEN/AMCONSUL CHENGDU SUBJ: QUANZHOU, FUJIAN -- A TRAVELER'S TALE WHITE HOUSE FOR OSTP/DBEHRING AND OVP DEPT FOR EAP/CM AND PRM/POP/MARGARET POLLACK DEPT PASS USAID/POPULATION/BARBARA CRANE USDOC PASS CENSUS USDA FAS FOR CMP, ARS, AND ERS STATE PASS USTR FOR CASSIDY AND POPOVICH E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: SENV, SOCI, ECON, EAGR, PGOV, NTDB, UNFPA, CH SUBJECT: QUANZHOU, FUJIAN -- A TRAVELER'S TALE 1. SUMMARY: QUANZHOU, A COASTAL FUJIAN CITY LOCATED HALFWAY BETWEEN XIAMEN AND FUZHOU, MAY HAVE BEGUN RECOVERING FROM AN ECONOMIC SLUMP THAT HAS PUSHED RETAIL PRICES DOWN FIVE PERCENT OVER THE PAST YEAR. QUANZHOU, LIKE XIAMEN AND TAIWAN, BELONGS TO THE SOUTHERN FUJIAN CULTURAL ZONE. TRADITIONAL MUSIC CONCERTS IN QUANZHOU ARE VERY POPULAR. AS ELSEWHERE, CORRUPTION IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM. QUANZHOU CITY, ON PARTY AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT ORDERS, HAS BEGUN A CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE FALSIFICATION OF OFFICIAL STATISTICS. FARMERS IN THE QUANZHOU COUNTRYSIDE
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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.