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Typescript transcript of interview with Gen Col Ivan Yesin, Soviet Nuclear Missile Force (SNMF). Subjects include: his role, Nov 1983; tensions between East and West in the late 1970s and early 1980s; boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow; the USSR-Afghanistan war 1979-1988; the Pioneer missile complex and its capabilities; NATO exercise ABLE ARCHER; USSR missile launch plans; the role of Yuri Andropov (General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1982-1984) in potential USSR missile launches; USSR Government Control Centre; Nikolai Orgakov (Chief of General Staff, 1977-1984), and his role in the command centre; atmosphere in the Government Control Centre amongst the SNMF and other soviet military forces. Original interview conducted in Russian, transcript in English. 28pp
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