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Typescript transcript of interview with Alina Pienkowska, Solidarity trade union activist, relating to the role of the free trade union movement in the reform of Polish government including the union strikes in Gdansk, Poland,1980; the role of the independent press in the union movement; social conditions in Poland; the impact on the unions of the imposition of martial law, 1981; her arrest and imprisonment; the end of communist rule in Poland and the free Senate elections, Jun 1989. 19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Thomas Stephen Foley, Democrat member of US Congress, 1965-1995, and Speaker of the US House of Representatives, 1989-1995, discussing the role of the US Congress in the decision to take military action against Iraq after the invasion of Kuwait, Aug 1990. Mentions meeting between of Congress leaders and George H W Bush, US President, 1989-1993, 30 Oct 1990; the Congress debate and vote of 12 and 17 Jan 1990 in support of Bush's authority regarding US military intervention. Also describes visit to Saudi Arabia with Bush during Thanksgiving holiday, 22 Nov1990, and the morale of the US and British forces stationed there. Transcript is incomplete. 32pp Previous Ref: Roll 39 and 40

Typescript transcript of interview with Thomas Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, US State Department, 1982, relating to his meeting with Sir Nicholas Henderson, UK Ambassador to the US, 1979-1982, to discuss British intelligence reports concerning planned invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentine forces, 31 Mar 1982; the argument for US neutrality on sovereignty of the Falkland Islands; membership of the diplomatic delegation headed by Alexander Meigs Haig, US Secretary of State, 1981-1982, and their first meeting with Rt Hon Margaret Hilda Thatcher, UK Prime Minister, 1979-1990, 8 Apr 1982; British attitude to negotiating with Argentina; US policy dilemma in balancing interests in Latin America with their alliance with the UK; complexities of decision making process within the Argentine government; Haig's visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina (9-10 Apr 1982) and meetings with government officials; Haig's second visit to London and British requests for open US support for military action; Haig's declaration of US support for the UK at the Organisation of American States (OAS) meeting [26 Apr 1982]; transfer of information between the US government and the British embassy; and US policy implications on their national politics. 42pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Sergei Dubovich Davydov, relating to the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, 29 Aug 1949; the Soviet atomic bomb development programme, 1945-1949; the importance of Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, Commissar for Internal Affairs, in the Soviet nuclear development programme, 1945-1949; Soviet thermonuclear (hydrogen) bomb tests, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, 12 Aug 1953; Soviet nuclear civil defence measures, [1950-1955]. 18pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Walter Cronkite, US journalist and television news presenter for CBS, relating to US-Soviet relations, in particular the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1961 22pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Nina Andreyeva, chemistry teacher at the Leningrad Soviet Technological Institute, relating to her article in Sovetskaya Rossiya (Soviet Russia), 13 Mar 1988, criticising Gorbachev's policy of perestroika (reform). 11pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Monika Langenhan, teacher from East Berlin, relating to her disillusionment with socialist ideology of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), her Christian conversion, participation in protests against the GDR government, and visiting West Berlin after the opening of the Berlin Wall, Nov 1989. 10pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Frances Eisenberg, teacher of English and journalism, Los Angeles City Schools, California, USA, and Connogle Park School, USA, [1942-1949], relating to her experience of McCarthyism, the campaign against alleged communists and communist sympathisers in US society instigated by Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 1950-1954, including accusations of teaching communist ideology, being called before numerous state committees including the Californian Un-American Activities Committee, to answer charges, 1952; membership of organisations including the Los Angeles Federation of Teachers, Democratic Party, and the Communist Party; anti-semitism in the US and comparisons with Russian pogroms; attacks on civil liberties; dismissal by the Californian Board of Education after losing case before the Superior Court, in a 5-4 decision. 24pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Berta Patricia Diaz, Nicaraguan teacher, relating to her abduction, physical and sexual abuse by Nicaraguan Contra forces, 1985. 10pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Grigori Dobrynov, USSR Army stationed in Hungary, (1953-1956) relating to the response of the Soviet army to the Hungarian uprising, 1956. 17pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Tim Boggan, member US table tennis team, 1971, relating to his visit to China, 1971. 19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Igor Kurdin, Soviet submarine officer and author, relating to the sinking of the K-219 SSMN, Soviet submarine, apparently following a collision with USS Augusta, Oct 1986. 8pp

Typescript transcript of Stephen Joshua Solarz, Democrat member of US Congress, 1975-1993, being interviewed by Brian Lapping, describing his role in lobbying Congress to support the US President and allow the used of US forces in the liberation of Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion. Mentions the formation of a bi-partisan committee to raise support for military intervention in Kuwait and the arguments used; meeting of bi-partisan committee with George H W Bush, US President, 1989-1993; his own rationale for supporting military intervention; drafting of the Congress resolution giving the President the authority to take military action. Also recalls his meetings with Saddam Hussein, Iraqi President, in 1982 and 1987, and his Feb 1991 meeting with Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov, Soviet negotiator. 26pp Previous Ref: Roll 33 and 34

Typescript transcript of interview with Martha Mautner, relating to the ultimatum, by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, to the western powers to withdraw from West Berlin, Nov 1958; the policy of US President Dwight David Eisenhower's administration towards the Berlin problem, 1958; the attempt by Khrushchev to achieve détente with the USA by removing the problem of Berlin, 1958; speculation on the possibility of a nuclear war between the USSR and USA over Berlin, 1958; the influence of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1951, and 1957-1963, on the US approach to Khrushchev's ultimatum, 1958; relations between the USA and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1958-1961; the summit meeting between Khrushchev and US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1961; the Berlin Crisis, 1961; the deployment of US military reinforcements to West Berlin, 1961; the influx of refugees from East Berlin to West Berlin, 1961; the construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961; the leadership of Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, 1961; the slowness of the US response to the Soviet construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961; the ordering of US troops to travel through the German Democratic Republic on the autobahn in order to reinforce West Berlin, 1961; the face off between Soviet and US tanks, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Oct 1961; the visit to and speech by US President Kennedy to West Berlin, Jun 1963. 57pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Hagen Koch, German Democratic Republic official, relating to the construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961. 19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Oleg Gordievsky, British agent in the KGB [1974-1985], relating to his work in counter espionage for the British government, and his advice to British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, concerning the Soviet views of the west, and her visit to Moscow, 1987. 22pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Konstantin Koval, Soviet official, 1945, relating to the removal of industrial plant and equipment by the Soviets from occupied Germany as war reparations, 1945; orders given by Soviet Marshal Georgiy Konstantinovich Zhukov for the Red Army to strip West Berlin of anything of value as war reparations, Apr 1945; and the Potsdam conference, codenamed TERMINAL, between the leaders of the USSR, USA and UK to decide the future boundaries of East European states, Potsdam, Germany, 17 Jul-2 Aug 1945. 52pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze, Soviet Foreign Minister, Jul 1985-Dec 1990, and Nov-Dec 1991, and President of Georgia, 1991-[1997], relating to the USSR under the leadership of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1964-1982; the policies on US/Soviet relations and arms reduction introduced by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991; Gorbachev's reformist foreign policy and its relation to arms reduction and to Soviet internal politics, 1985-1991; the influence of the Soviet economy on Gorbachev's foreign policy decisions, 1985-1991; Shevardnadze's relationship with George Pratt Shultz, US Secretary of State, 1982-1989; Soviet disengagement from Afghanistan, 1987-1989; the supply of Soviet arms to the regime of Afghan President Gen Mohammad Najibullah, 1987-1992; the Soviet/US agreement on Afghanistan, Geneva, Switzerland, Nov 1990; the Soviet decision not to interfere militarily in Eastern Europe, 1989-1990; the political and economic reforms in Hungary, 1989-1990; the reopening of the borders between Hungary and Austria, 2 May 1989; the Soviet acceptance of talks between Polish President Gen Wojciech (Witold) Jaruzelski, and Lech Walesa, Chairman of the Solidarity Union, Jan 1989; the influence of the USSR in the removal of Erich Honecker as head of state in the German Democratic Republic, Oct 1989; the demolition of the Berlin Wall and the opening of the borders between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, Nov 1989; Shevardnadze's opinion on the survival of socialism in Eastern Europe, 1991-1997; the election of US President George (Herbert Walker) Bush and the effect on Soviet/US relations, 1989; Shevardnadze's concerns on the future security of Europe, 1997; Gorbachev's opposition to the independence of the former Soviet republics, 1991; Shevardnadze's support for the independence of Georgia, Aug 1991; 'Bloody Sunday', the death of fourteen Lithuanians during the storming of public buildings by Soviet troops, Vilnius, Lithuania, 13 Jan 1991; the dissolution of the Communist Party of the USSR, 29 Aug 1991; approval by the USSR, the USA and the United Nations (UN) for military intervention against Iraq following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Aug 1990; the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact, 1989-1990; Shevardnadze's opinion on the legacy of the Cold War, 1991-1997. 22pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Nathan Sharansky, Soviet Jewish dissident, relating to his experiences as a member of the Helsinki Group Movement, campaigning for Soviet support of human rights contained in the declaration of Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe 1975 Summit (Helsinki Final Act) to which it was signatory; his experience of KGB surveillance; his strategy for combating psychological pressure during his imprisonment in the USSR; and his assessment of the US response to Soviet imprisonment of dissidents. 28pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Georgi Aleksandrovich Mikhailov, relating to Soviet anti-aircraft defences around Moscow, USSR, 1955; the development of strategic bomber aircraft by the USSR, the USA and UK, 1945-[1960]; US reconnaissance flights over the USSR, 1956-1960; the shooting down, near Sverdlovsk, USSR, of a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, and the capture of the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, May 1960. 10pp