Item COLD WAR 28/66 - Transcript of interview with diplomat Anatoly Dobrynin, 1997

Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1949-1952, and Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, relating to the reaction in the USSR to the Cuban revolution and to the socialist government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), 1959-1961; the decision by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, to provide Soviet economic and military aid to Cuba, [1961]; the strategic importance of Cuba to the USSR, 1961-1962; Soviet fears of a US invasion of Cuba, 1961-1962; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; the Soviet supply of military aid to Cuba, 1962; the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the television broadcast by US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy to the US public announcing the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba, 22 Oct 1962; the US naval blockade of Cuba, 1962; Dobrynin's opinion on not being informed of the Soviet deployment of missiles to Cuba, 1962; the meetings between Dobrynin and Robert Francis Kennedy, US Attorney General, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 23 and 27 Oct 1962; the US decision to agree to the withdrawal of Chrysler Jupiter SM-78 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) based in Turkey, Oct 1962; Dobrynin's opinion on how close the USA and the USSR came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Dobrynin's opinion of the leadership and characters of US President Kennedy and Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the relationship between Dobrynin and Robert Kennedy, Oct 1962; the Soviet opinion of the rapprochement between the USA and the People's Republic of China, 1969-1972; the reaction in the USSR to the visit to China by US President Richard Milhous Nixon, Feb 1972. 40pp