Item COLD WAR 27/56 - Transcript of interview with diplomat Professor George F Kennan, 1996

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COLD WAR 27/56

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Transcript of interview with diplomat Professor George F Kennan, 1996

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  • 1996 Jun (Creation)

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43pp

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Typescript transcript of interview with Professor George Frost Kennan, US diplomat, Moscow, 1933-1935, Prague, 1938-1939, Berlin, 1939-1940, Lisbon, Portugal, 1942, London 1944, Moscow 1945, Deputy for Foreign Affairs, National War College Washington, 1946, Director Policy Planning staff, Department of State, 1947; advisor to US Secretary of State, 1949-1950, Ambassador to USSR, 1952, Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1961-1963, relating to US Soviet relations 1933-1961, including character of communism in USSR under Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1922-1953; the involvement of the US in the Korean war, 1950-1953; the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency, (1947); and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1961. 43pp

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