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Transcript of interview with Brig Kenneth Hunt, responsible for executive operations planning at the War Office during the Suez Crisis of 1956, mainly relating to planning considerations for operations MUSKETEER and MUSKETEER REVISE (Anglo-French offensive in Egypt). 15pp

Transcript of filmed interview with Maj Gen Hodgson, former Judge Advocate General, 1967-1968, commenting on the courts martial of US soldiers, particularly Lt William Calley, for their part in the massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, Vietnam, 16 Mar 1968; the influence of public opinion in the verdict; and the process of military justice. 23pp

Typescript transcript of 'World in Action' interview with Abba Solomon Eban, Israeli Minister for Foreign Affairs 1966-1974, and Levi Eshkol, Israeli Prime Minister 1963-1969 and Minister of Defence 1963-1967, commenting on Israel's international relations and territorial aspirations at the time of the Six Day War (June 1967). 5pp

Typescript transcript of 'World in Action' interview with Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian President 1954-1970, discussing the reasons for Egyptian mobilisation and reoccupation of the Sinai, (May 1967); repatriation of Palestinian refugees, and Egyptian relationship with Arab states and the USSR. 8pp

Transcript of interview with Sir Harold Beeley, Assistant Under Secretary at the Foreign Office during the Suez Crisis of 1956, mainly relating to Beeley's career prior to the Suez Crisis as a member of the Foreign Office Research Department during World War Two, as a British Secretary of the Anglo American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine in 1946, in the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office and as a Counsellor of Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, 1950-1953. 29pp

Transcript of interview with Rt Hon Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh, Conservative MP during the Suez Crisis of 1956, mainly relating to Amery's experiences of the Middle East, and to the 'Suez Group' of backbench Conservative MPs opposed to the policy towards Egypt of Rt Hon Sir (Robert) Anthony Eden MP, Prime Minister. 18pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Yakov Etinger, relating to the arrest of Etinger and his father during the 'Doctor's plot', an anti-Semitic conspiracy against Jewish Doctors that had treated leading members of the Soviet Communist Party, Oct-Nov 1950; including anti-Semitism in the USSR, 1948-1953; the arrest of his father on suspicion of murder following the death of Aleksandr Sergeevich Shcherbakov, Commissar of the Soviet Armed Forces, 1945; the death of his father in Soviet custody, Mar 1951; Etinger's imprisonment in the Lubyanka prison, Moscow, USSR, 1950-1951; the pivotal role of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin during the 'Doctor's plot', 1950-1953; Etinger's sentence of ten years imprisonment in the Soviet Gulag slave labour camps, 1951, and subsequent release, 1954. 24pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Stefan Heym, German Democratic Republic dissident writer, relating to life in German Democratic Republic, 1953-1989. 30pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Ralph De Toledano, Editor, Newsweek magazine, 1948-1950, and co author with Victor Lasky of Seeds of treason, The true story of the Hiss-Chambers tragedy, Funk & Wagnalls Co, New York[1950], relating to the investigations into communist subversion in the US, including the investigation of Alger Hiss, a US State Department official charged with perjury for denying passing secret documents to Whitaker Chambers, a courier for the Communist Party, 1949-1950 and the role of Richard B Nixon in the investigation; the effect of the trial on Nixon's career; the activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee; the campaign against alleged communists and communist sympathisers in US society instigated by Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 1950-1954, (McCarthyism); the role of McCarthy's counsel, Roy Cohen; Nixon's relationship with McCarthy; Nixon's relationship with Dwight L Eisenhower and the 1952 US Presidential election where Nixon was elected Vice President; the influence and methods of McCarthy; the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its head J Edgar Hoover in the investigation of communist espionage in the US and the evidence of Igor Gusenko, Soviet defector to Canada; and Toledano's assessment of the severity of communist threat to the US during the Cold War. 34pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Pavel Kohunt, Czechoslovakian poet, writer and play write, relating to the impact of the political regime in Czechoslovakia on the Czech writing; the significance of the Czech Writers Conference, 1967; the effect of the Soviet occupation, Aug 1968; his response to the Czechoslovak signing of the Helsinki Final Act, 1975 concerning protection of human rights, and his involvement in the composition of the human rights manifesto Charter 77, 1977. 16pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Wg Cdr Donald Hanson, RAF, relating to the Berlin Airlift, Germany, Jun 1948-Sep 1949; the operational use by RAF Transport Command of the Douglas C-47 Dakota and Handley Page Hastings aircraft to ferry supplies into West Berlin, 1948-1949; the supplying of flour and coal, and the organisation of the airlift, 1948-1949.

Typescript transcript of interview with George McKee Elsey, advisor to US President Harry S Truman, and member of White House Staff, 1947-1953, relating to US, British and Soviet talks on the future boundaries of East European states, Potsdam, Germany, 17 Jul-2 Aug 1945; US use of nuclear weapons against Japan, Aug 1945; the development of US policy towards Soviet Union during the term of President Truman, including the significance of the 'long telegram', analysis if Soviet policy in the light of Russian history by George F Kennan, US Embassy, Moscow, Feb 1946, and the Clifford Elsey Report on US Soviet relations, Sep 1946; fears of Soviet influence in western Europe following World War 2; bipartisan support in US congress for the policy of military and economic aid for any country threatened by Communism, Mar 1947 (Truman Doctrine), and for the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1948; Truman's assessment of the communist threat in the US; US reaction to the establishment of the Peoples Republic of China under a communist regime, Oct 1949; and the campaign against alleged communists and communist sympathisers in US society instigated by Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 1950-1954, (McCarthyism). 32pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Wenceslao Bunge, Argentine industrialist and unofficial diplomatic representative of the Argentine Air Force, 1982, relating to the dinner at the Argentine Embassy, Washington DC, 2 Apr 1982, hosted by Esteban Takacs, Argentine Ambassador to the US, in honour of Dr Jeane Duane Jordan Kirkpatrick, US Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), 1981-1985, and the belief amongst the Argentine guests present that the UN would support the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands; Bunge's appointment as an unofficial intermediary between Brig Gen Basilio Lami-Dozo, Commander-in-Chief, Argentine Air Force and member of the ruling Military Junta, and Jeane Kirkpatrick, [8-9] Apr 1982; Lami-Dozo's desire to negotiate with the UK a swift peace settlement of the future of the Falkland Islands, Apr 1982; the reaction in Argentina to the British peace proposals of 17 May 1982. 9pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Walt Whitman Rostow, Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security 1961; State Dept, 1961-1966, Special Assistant to the US President, 1966-1969, relating to US involvement in the conflict in Vietnam during the Presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963 and Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969; US relations with China, during the Vietnam conflict; Kennedy's relation with Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953-1964, and US reaction to the construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961. 57pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Mehmet Enin, Greek villager, 1944-1949, relating to economic hardship in Greece during the Greek Civil War, 1944-1949; the scarcity of good quality mules in Greece during the Civil War, 1944-1949; US aid for Greece, [1947-1949]. 6pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Im Gui-Dong, villager, Republic of Korea (South Korea), describing her experiences during the Korean War, 1950-1953, and treatment of the villagers by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) army. 8pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Deli Hüseyin, Greek villager, 1944-1949, relating to the social and economic conditions in Greece during the Greek Civil War, 1944-1949; the scarcity of good quality mules in Greece during the Civil War, 1944-1949; the influence of US aid to Greece and the supply of good quality mules to the local population, [1947-1949]. 4pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Igor Ognietov, Soviet Communist Party Vietnam Specialist, relating to Soviet military assistance to North Vietnam during the Vietnam conflict; and relations between USSR, China and Vietnam. 27pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Tran Bach Dang, Viet Cong leader in Saigon, [1968-1975], relating to US involvement in Vietnam, [1961]-1975; the importance of the Tet offensive as a turning point in the Vietnam War, Jan-Feb 1968; the unpopularity of the regime of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, 1955-1963; the first deployment of US ground forces to Vietnam, 1965; combat in the Iron Triangle, an area between Ben Suc, Ben Cat and the Saigon River, and Cu Chi, South Vietnam, 1967-1968; the supply of war materials from North Vietnam to South Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1959-1975; the uprising against South Vietnamese President Diem's regime, 1960; Viet Cong opposition to the administration of Gen Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam, 1967-1975; the objectives of the Tet offensive, 1968; the capture of Saigon by the NVA (North Vietnamese Army), 30 Apr 1975; the restoration of diplomatic relations between the USA and Vietnam, 1995. 15pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Aleksandr Vladimirovich Rutskoi, Russian Vice President, 1991, relating to the political and economic reforms in the Soviet Union during Gorbachev's term of office 1985-1991, including the increasing popularity of Boris Yeltsin; the attempted coup d'etat against Gorbachev, Dec 1991, and Gorbachev's resignation. 15pp