Item COLD WAR 7/4 - Transcript of interview with Communist Party Central Committee member Jarmila Potuekova, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Jarmila Potùèkova, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, [1948]-1951, and member of the Czech Control Party Commission, [1948]-1951, relating to Potùèkova's arrest, on the same day as the arrest of Rudolf Slánský, the Jewish Vice Premier of Czechoslovakia, 1951; Potùèkova's imprisonment and interrogation, Nov 1951-Jun 1952; Potùèkova's release from prison, 1960; Potùèkova's opinion of the Czech Communist Party, 1951-1960; Potùèkova's discovery on her release from prison, of the deaths, in 1953, of Klement Gottwald, Czech Prime Minister, and of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 1960; the execution of Slánský, 2 Dec 1951; the role of NKVD (Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) advisers in Potùèkova's arrest, interrogation and imprisonment, 1951-1960; Potùèkova's belief that the arrests, imprisonment and execution of leading members of the Czech Communist Party was inspired by Soviet anti-Semitism and fears of espionage, 1951.