Item FIFTY YEARS WAR 9/5 - Transcript of interview, 1997, with Vadim Kirpichenko, KGB representative to Egyptian intelligence

Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Vadim Kirpichenko, KGB representative to Egyptian intelligence organisation, describing Soviet relations with Gamal Abdul Nasser, Egyptian President 1954-1970, including the arrival of Soviet military experts in Egypt, the visit of Nasser to the USSR (Apr 1958) and visit of Nikolay Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, 1965-1977, to Egypt (1967); his attendance at Nasser's funeral with Aleksey Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars 1964-1980, (Sep 1970), and intelligence assessment of Nasser's successor Anwar al-Sadat and his policies towards USSR and USA; Sadat's consolidation of power and arrest of Ali Sabri, Egyptian politician (May 1971); the expulsion of the Soviet advisors from Egypt (Jul 1973). 29pp