• JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Look above that. It says the full text is a reprint from a Soviet newspaper. The line you’re quoting as being confirmation comes from a Russian/Ukrainian newspaper, not the CIA. The hint is the “authoritative” in the description of “Canadian weekly world news”.

    SUBJ*SUBJ: PAPER REPORTS ALLEGED EVIDENCE ON MISHAP INVOLVING UFO

    TEXT TEXT: // ((REPRINT FROM THE NEWSPAPER TERNOPIL VECHIRNIY: “COSMIC REVENGE” – FIRST PARAGRAPH PUBLISHED IN BOLDFACE)) ((TEXT ) AFTER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV DISSOlVED, IN 1991, THE KGB TOP SECRET INTELLIGENCE ADMINISTRATION, A lOT OF MATERIAL FROM THAT DEPARTMENT FOUND THEIR WAY ABROAD,’ IN PARTICULAR TO THE CIA. AS REPORTED BY THE AUTHORITATIVE MAGAZINE CANADIAN WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, *U.S. INTELLIGENCE OBTAINED A 250-PAGE FILE ON THE ATTACK BY A UFO ON A MILITARY UNIT IN SIBERIA, THE FILE CONTAINS…

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      Shit, you’re right! I totally missed that!

      I find documents in ALL CAPS like that extremely hard to parse, which is why I case corrected the main text. Should have done the rest of it too apparently!

      eta: Updated the transcript to hopefully make that clearer

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        1 day ago

        Based on how this has gone somewhat viral, it seems like a lot of people are having trouble with it.

        I skipped over it at first too, but was suspicious of the language and when I saw CWWN described as “authoritative” I stopped reading and started trying to figure out where it was coming from lol.