Item FIFTY YEARS WAR 9/4 - Transcript of interview, 1997, with diplomat Victor Israelyan

Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Victor Israelyan, senior Ambassador in Soviet Foreign Ministry, describing the reaction of Leonid Brezhnev, General secretary of the Communist Party 1964-1982, and Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister 1957-1985, to intelligence of Egypt's planned attack on Israel, 4 Oct 1973; evacuation of Soviet military and civilian personnel from Egypt and Syria; the Soviet attitude to the October War (Yom Kippur War, Jun 1967); unsuccessful visit of Aleksey Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars 1964-1980, to Cairo to negotiate ceasefire; visit of Henry Alfred Kissinger, US Secretary of State to Moscow, and the negotiation of UN Security Council Resolution 338 calling for immediate ceasefire between Israel and Egypt; delay in ceasefire, Brezhnev's letter to US President Nixon, and the Politburo debate of possible nuclear war. 26pp