Key Information
Reference code
FIFTY YEARS WAR 9/8
Title
Transcript of interview, 1997, with Soviet foreign ministry official Victor Shukhodrev
Date(s)
- 1997 Mar (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
25pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Victor Shukhodrev, Soviet foreign ministry official and high level interpreter, describing the first use of the teletype 'hotline' between the Kremlin in Moscow, USSR and the White House in Washington, USA during Israeli's Six Day War, and messages sent by Aleksey Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars 1964-1980, and Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister 1957-1985, to Lyndon Baines Johnson, US President 1963-1969 and Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State 1961-1969, 5-10 Jun 1967. Also describes the meeting between Kosygin and Johnson in Glassboro, New Jersey, Jun 1967. 25pp