Item COLD WAR 27/127 - Transcript of interview with diplomat Winston Lord, 1997

Typescript transcript of interview with Ambassador Winston Lord, member of staff, Congressional Relations, Political, Military and Economic Affairs, US State Department, Washington DC, USA, 1961-1964, and Geneva, Switzerland, 1965-1967, member of staff, International Security Affairs, US Defense Department, 1967-1969, member of staff, US National Security Council, 1969-1973, Special Assistant to Dr Henry Alfred Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1970-1972, Director, Policy Planning Staff, US State Department, 1973-1977, and US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, 1985-1989, relating to Lord's opinion of Kissinger, 1970-1972; Kissinger's relationship with US President Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974; the reaction in the US State Department to Kissinger's close working relationship with President Nixon, 1969-1974; Nixon and Kissinger's policy towards the US involvement in Vietnam, 1969-1974; the US 'Vietnamisation' programme, the gradual withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam coupled with an increased role for the armed forces of the Republic of South Vietnam, Jun 1969-1973; the secret US bombing of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) sanctuaries in Cambodia, [1970]; the US invasion of Cambodia, May 1970; US preparations for the summit meeting between Nixon and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, May 1972; the North Vietnamese offensive across the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) and into the Republic of South Vietnam, Mar-Apr 1972; Operation LINEBACKER I, the US bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam, in response to the North Vietnamese offensive against South Vietnam, Mar-Apr 1972; the reaction of the USSR to the improved relations between the USA and China, 1972; the relationship between Nixon and Brezhnev, Moscow summit, USSR, May 1972; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975; Kissinger's negotiations with the North Vietnamese, Paris, France, and his official visit to Hanoi, North Vietnam, Oct 1972; the exclusion of representatives from the Republic of South Vietnam during Kissinger's peace talks with the North Vietnamese, Oct 1972; Operation LINEBACKER II, the USAF conventional bombing, by Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses, of Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam, Dec 1972; the Watergate scandal, Washington DC, USA, 1972-1974; Lord's discovery that his telephone had been bugged during the Watergate scandal, 1972-1974; the speech made by Kissinger on the connection between US foreign policy and morality, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Apr 1975; the inclusion of the human rights clause in the Helsinki accords, Jul-Aug 1975; the Middle East crisis over the Yom Kippur War, Oct 1973; the relationship between Kissinger and Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, during the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), 1969-1972; the USA's contribution to the continuance of the Cold War, 1945-1990; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Lord's opinion that the USA was the victor of the Cold War, 1990. 60pp