Item COLD WAR 27/72 - Transcript of interview with foreign policy adviser Helmut Sonnenfeldt, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Director, Office of Research on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, US Department of State, 1952-1969, Senior Staff Member, US National Security Council, 1969-1974, Counsellor, US Department of State, 1974-1977, and Guest Scholar, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA, [1996], relating to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), 1969-1972; the US strategic policy of flexible response, 1961; the summit meeting between US President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA, Jun 1967; the US and Soviet development of anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs); the omission of discussions on the limitation of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs) during the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), 1969-1972; the increase in the number of US and Soviet nuclear warheads deployed following the ratification of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), 1972; the relationship between the US and Soviet negotiating teams during SALT, 1969-1972; the difficulty in translating complex technical terminology into understandable Russian and English, SALT, 1969-1972; the importance of the 'back channel' negotiations between Dr Henry (Alfred) Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1969-1972, and Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, during SALT, 1969-1972; the role of Kissinger during SALT, 1969-1972; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975. 27pp