Key Information
Reference code
FIFTY YEARS WAR 8/14
Title
Transcript of interview, 1997, with US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
Date(s)
- 1997 Apr 21 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
19pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Robert Strange McNamara, US Secretary of Defence 1961-1968, describing the position of the US concerning tension between Egypt and Israel leading up to the Six Day War, (Jun 1967) and its Cold War context; McNamara's with Lyndon Baines Johnson, US President 1963-1969, and Aba Solomon Eban, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs 1966-1974, in Washington, 26 May 1967 concerning possible Israeli preemptive action against Egypt, and later with Meir Amit, Head Israeli Intelligence (Mossad), 30 May 1967. Also comments on the role of the Soviet Union and the initiation of a ceasefire, 10 Jun 1967.19pp