Item COLD WAR 27/66 - Transcript of interview with CIA officer John Mapother, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with John Mapother, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), [1958-1963], relating to the ultimatum, by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, to the western powers to withdraw from West Berlin, Nov 1958; the response to the ultimatum from US President Dwight David Eisenhower's administration, 1958-1959; the summit meeting between Khrushchev and Eisenhower, Paris, France, May 1960; the Foreign Ministers' Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1959; relations between the USA and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1958-1961; the attempt by Khrushchev to achieve détente with the USA by removing the problem of Berlin, 1958; negotiations between Eisenhower and Khrushchev, Camp David, Maryland, USA, Sep 1959; the summit meeting between Khrushchev and US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1961; the importance of Berlin as the source of US intelligence information, 1958-1961; US covert attempts to undermine the government of the German Democratic Republic, 1948-1955; the Austrian State Treaty, creating an independent Austria, 1955; the influx of refugees from East Berlin to West Berlin, 1961; the construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961; the face off between Soviet and US tanks, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Oct 1961; the slowness of the US response to the Soviet construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961. 40pp