Item FIFTY YEARS WAR 9/6 - Transcript of interview, 1997, with Evgeny Pyrlin, head of the Egypt department, Soviet Foreign Ministry

Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Evgeny Pyrlin, Head of Egypt department in the Soviet Foreign Ministry, describing communications between Eshkol and Aleksey Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars 1964-1980, in lead up to the Six Day War (Oct 1973); his attendance at the funeral of Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt 1954-1970, (Sep 1970); Soviet relations with Anwar al-Sadat and Sadat's visit to Moscow, (Feb1972, Apr 1972); Soviet attitude to the October War (Yom Kippur War) (Oct 1973); visits of Kosygin to Egypt, (1973); visit of Henry Alfred Kissinger, US Secretary of State 1973-1977, to Moscow (Oct 1973); Soviet relations with Syria including response to Syrian involvement in Jordan (Sep 1970) and Soviet reaction to Israeli attack on Syrian missile positions (1982). 33pp