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Typescript transcript of interview with Boris Vladimirovich Klyuyukov Deputy Head of personal security of Yuri Andropov. Subjects include his role working for Yuri Andropov when he was Chairman of the KGB and General Secretary; Andropov’s illness and his dialysis every other day requiring him to be based at the hospital in Kosava instead of the Kremlin; Andropov’s efficiency as General Secretary whilst in hospital; hospital visits from Dmitry Ustinov, Andrei Gromyko, Mikhail Gorbachev & Konstantin Chernenko; Andropov’s calm and confidence in 1983; Andropov reaction to the shooting down of Korean Airlines flight KAL-007; Klyuyukov’s recollections of Able Archer; Yuri Andropov as a personality; the possibility of Andropov giving an order to start a nuclear war; relationship between Andropov and Ustinov; hotline within the hospital; Original interview conducted in Russian, transcript in English; 26pp
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