Item FIFTY YEARS WAR 8/26 - Transcript of interview, 1997, with Joseph Sisco, former US Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and South Asia

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FIFTY YEARS WAR 8/26

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Transcript of interview, 1997, with Joseph Sisco, former US Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and South Asia

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  • 1997 Mar 19 (Creation)

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43pp

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Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Joseph John Sisco, US Assistant Secretary of State for international organisation affairs 1965-1969, and Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and South Asia 1969-1974, describing meeting of Abba Solomon Eban, Israeli Foreign Minister 1966-1974, with Lyndon Baines Johnson, US President 1963-1969, (26 May 1967), prior to the Six Day War; negotiations the Anatoly F Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the US 1962-1986, and Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister 1957-1985, Gideon Rafael Israeli diplomat and Foreign Ministry official 1958-1978, Eban, Arthur J Goldberg, US Ambassador to the United Nations 1965-1968 (Jun 1967); US role in negotiations between Israeli and Egypt, involving meetings with, Moshe Dyan, Israeli Minister of Defence, 1967-1974 and Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister 1969-1974 (1971); US response to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacking of passenger aircraft taken to Jordan, and negotiation of Israeli operation against Syrian intervention in Jordan (Sep 1970), involving Henry Alfred Kissinger, National Security Advisor to US President 1969-1975, Richard M Nixon, US President 1969-1974; Yitzhak Rabin Israeli Ambassador to the US 1968-1973, and Yuli Vorontsov, Soviet Embassy official in the US (1966-1977).43pp

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