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- [2007] (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Joe Troxell, Staff Officer, SHAPE. Subjects include the Able Archer exercise his role in Able Archer and how it increased the confidence of staff unfamiliar with procedure, the value and importance of the exercise; description of facilities at SHAPE and atmosphere within SHAPE bunker; tensions between NATO countries; Able Archer concerns of West Germany; the possible use of pre-emptive strike by NATO; what did the USSR know about Able Archer; psychological operations in military and politics, particularly Grenada and Able Archer; USSR response to Ronald Reagan and the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI); Able Archer as a provocative exercise. 67pp
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