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Typescript transcript interview with Fritz W. Ermath, USSR Analyst in the CIA. Subjects include his role in in the US Aerospace industry and his subsequent return to the CIA; his expertise in USSR affairs; his recollection of the USSR and US tensions; the rise of Poland’s ‘solidarity movement’ and the plot to kill the Pope 1981, Reagan’s election and his “Evil Empire” speech, 1981, the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI); NATO immediate range missiles and the deployment of Pershing II missiles; the shooting down of Korean Airlines flight KAL 007; compiling a national intelligence estimate assessment of the events of early 1980s; the involvement of Robert Gates; the large numbers of staff working on USSR intelligence in the 1980s; the response to Able Archer; the monitoring of USSR activity; US underestimating USSR paranoia; USSR awareness of their economic situation; Oleg Gordievsky as a source for the CIA; tactical strike regiments in East Germany; Able Archer in comparison to the Cuban Missile Crisis; SIOPS activities. 41pp
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