Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [2007] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of interview with Gen Igor Kondriatev, USSR Military Intelligence. Subjects include Stanislav Petrov and the false detection of missiles in September 1983; expectations of a nuclear attack from NATO and NATO’s capabilities of nuclear attack; political and military level tensions between NATO and the USSR; President Ronald Reagan administration and his “Evil Empire” speech, 1981; tension between the heads of state; Operation RYAN military intelligence on NATO; NATO exercises and the exhaustion they would cause to military staff; GDR military intelligence and Markus Wolf; Able Archer as a routine strategic exercise; USSR leadership concerns about Able Archer; Able Archer as a provocative exercise. Original interview conducted in Russian, transcript in English. 29pp.
General Information
Name of creator
Repository
Language of material
Script of material
Existence and location of originals
Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›