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Typescript transcript of interview with Yakov Drabkin, Soviet official, Germany, 1945-[1950], relating to his role in Germany liasing with the German population on aspects of Soviet policy, 1945-[1950]; the German attitude to the Red Army, 1945-1948; the relationship between Soviet liaison officers and members of the German Communist Party, [1946-1949]; the Soviet blockade of West Berlin and the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949; the creation of the German Democratic Republic, Oct 1949; anti-Semitism in Germany, 1948-1949; the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 5 Mar 1953. 30pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Rene Hernandez Gatorno, Cuban soldier, relating to his experiences fighting alongside Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) forces against South African forces during the Angolan Civil War, 1975. 17pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Ebelio Belen Pacheco, Cuban soldier, relating to his participation in Cuban international mission fighting with Ethiopian forces against Somalia, [1977-1978]. 13pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Abdel Moneim Qenawi, Egyptian soldier, relating to his sabotage missions in Israeli occupied territory on the north side of the Suez canal,, and his experiences during the Yom Kippur War (Ramadan War), Oct 1973. 14pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Sofia Zhuravleva, mother of Soviet Army conscript killed in the Afghanistan war 1979-1989, relating to the secrecy concerning the Soviet Army involvement in Afghanistan; and news of her son's death; and his burial. 11pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Tatiana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist, relating to social conditions in the USSR during the 1960s and 1970s, and the response of the government to reformers and dissidents. 21pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Leone Katz, wife of Elliott Katz, and economics, social science teacher and housewife, relating to her academic career, life and social change in the US, during the 1950s and 1960s. 17pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Sister Maria Cristina Cid Fuentes, relating to the election of Salvador Allende (Gossens), as President of Chile, 1970; shortages of goods in the lead up to the military coup d'etat which overthrew Allende's government, Sep 1973; and the executions of opponents of the military government. 7pp

Transcript of interview with Sir William Goodenough Hayter, British Ambassador to the USSR during the Suez Crisis of 1956, including the visit of Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, Soviet Prime Minister, and Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party, to London in 1956; the response of Charles Bohlen, US Ambassador to the USSR, to the Anglo-French offensive in Egypt; the British response to Bulganin's note of 5 Nov 1956 hinting at Soviet military action against Great Britain and France. 16pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Sir Robin (William) Renwick, Head of Chancery, British Embassy, Washington DC, US, 1981-1984, relating to the telephone call of Ronald Wilson Reagan, US President, 1981-1989 to Lt Gen Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, President of Argentina, 1981-1982, (1 Apr 1982); meetings between Sir (John) Nicholas Henderson, British Ambassador to the US, 1979-1982, and Caspar Willard Weinberger, US Secretary of Defence, 1981-1987, concerning US provision of military assistance to British forces (Apr 1982); British relations with the US State Department, and support for British policy within the US administration; and the British Embassy's response to the attendance of Dr Jeane Duane Jordan Kirkpatrick, US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 1981-1985, at the Argentine Embassy dinner, (2 Apr 1982). 22pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Sir (John) Nicholas Henderson, British Ambassador to the US, 1979-1982, relating to his meeting with Alexander Meigs Haig, US Secretary of State, 1981-1982, concerning British intelligence reports of the imminent Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands, and Haig's reaction (31 Mar 1982); lobbying of US government and popular support for the UK response to the invasion; the significance of British willingness to negotiate a settlement, in maintaining US support; meetings with Caspar Willard Weinberger, US Secretary of Defence, 1981-1987, and the provision of US military assistance to British forces; visit of Rt Hon Francis Leslie Pym, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1982-1983, to Washington, 20-22 Apr 1982; and his own visit to England for meetings with Rt Hon Margaret Hilda Thatcher, British Prime Minister, 1979-1990, and Sir Anthony Derrick Parsons, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 1979-1982, to develop the British Peace Plan, (May 1982). 30pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Rt Hon Sir John William Frederic Nott, British Secretary of State for Defence 1981-1983, relating to the British Government's response to Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands (2 Apr 1982), including his discussion of response alternatives with Rt Hon Margaret Hilda Thatcher, British Prime Minister, 1979-1990, and AF Sir Henry (Conyers) Leach, British Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord, 1979-1982, 30 Mar 1982; British Government Cabinet meetings and the establishment of a Cabinet subcommittee to oversee the military operations comprising of Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, Sixth Baron Carrington (Lord Carrington), Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1979-1982, Rt Hon William Stephan Ian Whitelaw, Home Secretary 1979-1983, Rt Hon Cecil Edward Parkinson, Paymaster General, 1981-1983 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1982-1983, Prime Minister Thatcher along with Nott; House of Commons debate on the Falklands conflict followed by the meeting of the '1922 Committee' (of Conservative Party back benchers) (3 Apr 1982); the resignation of Lord Carrington as Foreign Secretary (Apr 1982) and the appointment of Rt Hon Francis Leslie Pym as his successor. Also comments on the meetings with Alexander Meigs Haig, US Secretary of State, 1981-1982 during and discussion of a diplomatic solution (8, 12-13 Apr 1982); the purpose of Pym's visit to Washington, 22-23 Apr 1982; the announcement to the British media of the recovery of South Georgia; and the British cabinet's private rejection of the US proposal for joint administration of the islands [17 Apr 1982].

Transcript of interview with Sir (Arthur) Douglas Dodds-Parker, Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during the Suez Crisis of 1956, including Dodds-Parker's early career in the Sudan Political Service; the 'Dodds-Parker Committee', established in 1956 to initiate clandestine activities against the Egyptian Government; his reaction to being told on 31 Oct 1956 by Rt Hon (Harold) Anthony Nutting MP, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, of the prior discussions between Great Britain, France and Israel to attack Egypt, and of Nutting's intention to resign; the disapperance of sensitive official papers from the Foreign Office relating to the Suez Crisis. Two copies. 13pp

Transcript of interview with Sir Donald Arthur Logan, Assistant Private Secretary to Rt Hon John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn-Lloyd MP, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, during the Suez Crisis of 1956, mainly relating to the discussions between the governments of Britain, France and Israel at Sèvres, France, 22-24 Oct 1956, leading to the signing of the Protocol of Sèvres, stating the terms for an Anglo-French response to an Israeli offensive in Egypt. Two copies, minor variations. 19pp

Transcript of interview with Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright, Assistant Under Secretary of State at the Foreign Office during the Suez Crisis of 1956, mainly relating to the dissatisfaction of Wright and other Foreign Office officials with the policy of the British Government and Sir Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick, Permanent Under Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, towards Egypt and the USA during the Suez Crisis. Two copies, minor variations. 11pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Truong Tuong Vi, NVA (North Vietnamese Army) singer tasked with entertaining the troops ferrying supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, [1965-1975], relating to US bombing raids on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, [1965-1972]; the boost to morale that entertainment gave to NVA troops, [1965-1975]. 5pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Marta Kubisova, Czechoslovak singer, relating to the termination of her singing career in 1968; her participation in the anti-government protests, Nov 1989, and the fall of the Czechoslovak government, Nov 1989; and the popularity of Vaclav Havel, Czechoslovak dissident, later President, 1989-1992. 9pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Sergo Mikoyan, son of Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, relating to Soviet attitudes to Latin American nations, including Mikoyan's his father's visit to Cuba, 1960; the career of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Argentinian communist revolutionary and Cuban Minister for Industries, [1959-1962; and the provision of Soviet military aid to communist forces in Nicaragua. 17pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Sergei Khrushchev, son of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953-1964, chiefly describing his fathers actions and opinions relating to his aims for Soviet society, 1954-1964; the Soviet rejection of US President Dwight David Eisenhower's Open Skies proposal, to allow US and Soviet aircraft to overfly each other's countries to observe military installations, and for an exchange of military programmes to occur, [1953]; the official visit to the USA by Nikita Khrushchev, 1959; the visit to the UK by Khrushchev and Marshal Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin, Soviet Prime Minister, Apr 1956; the opposition in the USSR to Khrushchev's leadership, 1954-1964; his policies to improve living conditions in the USSR, 1954-1964; Soviet military expenditure, 1954-1964; Khrushchev's opinion of Soviet art and literature, 1954-1964; Khrushchev's decision, influenced by Aleksandr Trofimovich Tvardovsky, Editor of Novyy mir, to authorise the Soviet publication of One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, 1962, and The Heirs of Stalin (1961) by Yevtushenko, 1961; Khrushchev's fascination with the development of new technologies, 1954-1964; his removal from power and subsequent nervous breakdown, 1964; the rise to power of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, 1960-1964; the denunciation by Nikita Khrushchev, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Khrushchev's decision to install Soviet nuclear weapons on Cuba, 1962. 40pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Sergei Khrushchev, son of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953-1964, relating to Nikita Khrushchev's opinion of the USA, [1959]; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Soviet policies towards the eastern European satellite countries, 1953-1964; the denunciation by Nikita Khrushchev of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; Soviet intervention in Hungary, 1956; the re-establishment of cordial relations with Yugoslavia, 1955; Soviet relations with the People's Republic of China, 1953-1964; the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany and incorporation into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 1954; the Berlin Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961; the East Berlin uprising, 17 Jun 1953; Nikita Khrushchev's relationships with Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, [1932]-1953, Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, Commissar for Internal Affairs, 1938-1953, Georgiy Maksimilyanovich Malenkov, Prime Minister, 1953-1955, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1939-1949 and 1953-1956, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, Deputy Prime Minister, 1937-1964, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Bulganin, Premier and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, 1955-1958, and with US President Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-1961; Nikita Khrushchev's opinion of Dulles, Mao, the summit meeting between Nikita Khrushchev, and US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1961; the death of Stalin, Mar 1953. 30pp