Key Information
Reference code
FIFTY YEARS WAR 4/2
Title
Transcript of interview, 1997, with diplomat Salah Bassiouny
Date(s)
- 1997 Feb 25 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
27pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Salah Bassiouny, Egyptian diplomat and foreign affairs official, discussing intelligence reports from D P Podyadaev, Soviet Ambassador to Egypt, concerning Israeli troop concentration on the Syrian border 13 May 1967; his visit to Moscow as secretary of an Egyptian military mission, (May 1967); decision of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian President 1954-1970, to close the Straits of Tiran; and Egyptian response to Israeli peace proposals following the Six Day War, Jul 1967. 27 pp