Item COLD WAR 28/17 - Transcript of interview with diplomat Yuri Modin, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Yuri Ivanovich Modin, [Soviet Diplomat], Soviet Embassy, London, UK, 1947-[1963], relating to the intelligence acquired by the NKVD (Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) on the US economic proposals for Europe that later became the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1947-1948; the attendance of (Skryabin) Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, at the Conference on European Economic Cooperation to discuss the Marshall Plan, Paris, France, Jul 1947; the implementation of the Marshall Plan, [1948-1950]; Soviet support for communist organisations in France, Italy and the UK, 1947-1949; Modin's relationship with British spies working for the USSR, including Guy (Francis de Moncy) Burgess, Anthony (Frederick) Blunt, Harold Adrian Russell 'Kim' Philby and Donald (Duart) Maclean, 1951-1963; the information passed by British spies to the USSR, 1951-1963; the transfer of intelligence to Moscow, USSR, and the provision of copies for Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, Molotov and Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, Commissar for Internal Affairs, 1951-[1953]; Modin's opinion on the characteristics of a good spy, 1996; Soviet knowledge of British and US wartime research into the atomic bomb, 1942-1945; Stalin's reaction to US President Harry S Truman's announcement at the Potsdam conference, codenamed TERMINAL, Jul-Aug 1945, of the TRINITY Atomic Test, the detonation of the first atomic bomb, Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, Alamogordo Desert, New Mexico, USA, 16 Jul 1945; the supply of intelligence to the USSR on the implementation of the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1947-1948; the impact of British spies working for the USSR on the Cold War, 1951-1963.