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Typescript transcript of interview with Gergely Pongracz, Hungarian resistance leader, relating to his participation in the Hungarian uprising, Oct-Nov 1956. 23pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Raymond (Doc) Frazier, supporter of Ronald Reagan, relating to the election of Ronald Reagan as US President, 1981, his popularity and achievements. Also comments on the personal image of Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, compared to previous Soviet leaders. 12pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Majnoon, Afghan refugee in Pakistan, relating to the Soviet army attack on his village, and the rocket striking his house and killing his wife and children other family members. 5pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Ashuq, civilian Afghan refugee, relating to the Soviet Army attack on his village and execution of his mother, wife, and children by Soviet soldiers. 7pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Nikolai Bieloborodov, Red Army officer, commanded the construction of the Soviet missile sites on Cuba, 1962, relating to the reaction in the USSR to the Cuban revolution and to the socialist government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), 1959-1960; the Soviet opinion of US opposition to Castro's regime in Cuba, 1959-1962; the opposition within the Soviet military to the US possession of bases around the world, 1959-1962; the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; Operation MONGOOSE, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plan to destabilise Cuba and assassinate Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), Prime Minister of Cuba, 1960; the covert delivery of Soviet military equipment, personnel and nuclear warheads to Cuba, 1962; the strategic impact on the USA of the Soviet deployment of missiles to Cuba, 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the shooting down of a US Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, Cuba, 27 Oct 1962; the Soviet control of the launch procedures of the missiles deployed to Cuba, 1962; the discovery of the Soviet deployment Missiles to Cuba through US reconnaissance photography, 16 Oct 1962; Soviet speculation on a US invasion of Cuba, 27-28 Oct 1962; the telegram from Castro to Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, requesting the possible use of nuclear weapons against the USA, 1962; Bieloborodov's opinion on how close the USA and USSR came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the non-installation of the nuclear warheads on the Soviet missiles in Cuba, 1962; Bieloborodov's orders and preparations to repel the expected US invasion of Cuba, 27-28 Oct 1962; the Soviet decision to withdraw the missiles from Cuba, Oct 1962; the impact of the Cuban Missile Crisis on US-Soviet relations, 1962-1997. 33pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Grigory Romanovich Danilevich, Red Army officer, 1962, relating to the reaction in the USSR to the Cuban revolution and to the socialist government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), 1959-1960; Soviet economic, political, diplomatic and military support for Cuba, 1959-1962; the Soviet opinion of US opposition to Castro's regime in Cuba, 1959-1962; the disparity between the USSR and the USA on the numbers of deployed nuclear weapons, 1961-1962; Danilevich's posting and voyage to Cuba, 1962; the issue of civilian clothes to Soviet military personnel during the voyage to Cuba, 1962; the welcome given by the Cuban people on the arrival of the Soviet military personnel in Cuba, 1962; the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; the shooting down of a US Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, Cuba, 27 Oct 1962; Soviet fears of a US invasion of Cuba, 27-28 Oct 1962. 24pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Boris Goncharov, Red Army, Cuba, 1962, relating to the reaction in the USSR to the Cuban revolution and to the socialist government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), 1959-1960; Goncharov's support for Soviet aid to Cuba, 1960-1962; Goncharov's opinion of US foreign policy, 1960-1962; Goncharov's posting to a Red Army missile engineer unit, Lithuania, Jul 1962; the transfer of Soviet military engineering equipment from Lithuania to Sebastapol, Crimea, USSR, Jul 1962; the issue of civilian clothes to Soviet military personnel during the voyage to Cuba, 1962; Goncharov's account of the voyage to Cuba, 1962; the welcome given by the Cuban people on the arrival of the Soviet military personnel in Cuba, 1962; the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the siting of the missiles and the construction of bases in Cuba, 1962; US flights over Cuba by Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, Oct 1962; Soviet fears of a US invasion of Cuba, 27-28 Oct 1962; the Soviet withdrawal from Cuba, Oct-Nov 1962; Goncharov's opinion on how near the USSR and USA came to war during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. 24pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Alexander Gordeyev, Red Army, 1944-1945, relating to conditions in the formerly German occupied areas of the USSR, 1944-1945; the meeting between the Red Army and the US Army, Torgau, River Elbe, Germany, 25 Apr 1945; the destruction in Dresden, Germany, 1945; the liberation of Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 1945; the 'Iron Curtain' speech made by Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, USA, 5 Mar 1946; and the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1948. 8pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Valentina Gordeyeva, Red Army, 1941-1945, relating to Operation BARBAROSSA, the German invasion of the USSR, 22 Jun 1941; Gordeyeva's service with the Red Army, 1941-1945; and the announcement of the end of the war, May 1945. 8pp

Typescript transcript of interview with R Adm Roberto Moya, Chief of the Argentine Military Household, and Naval member of the Malvinas Working Group, 1982, relating to the character and role of Lt Gen Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, President of Argentina, 1981-1982 in the Argentine Military Junta; the apparent contradiction between the role of Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr, US Secretary of State, 1981-1982, in mediating between the Britain and Argentina, and US support of the British military operation against the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands; the US plans to evacuate staff from their Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Apr 1982; Haig's opinion on sovereignty of the Falkland Islands expressed at his meeting with the Argentine Military Junta [18 Apr 1982]; the meeting of the Organisation of American States (OAS) in Washington [26 Apr 1982]; the effect of sinking of the Argentine cruiser GENERAL BELGRANO, on the discussions of the Belaúnde peace proposal (2-3 May 1982). Page 1-12 of this transcript appears to overlap with the transcript of the interview with Lami-Dozo (see item 3/5). 26pp

Typescript transcript of interview with US R Adm John F Sigler, Commanding Officer, USS BELKNAP, Flagship of the US Sixth Fleet, Mediterranean, 1989, relating to the shipboard summit meeting between US President George (Herbert Walker) Bush and General Secretary Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Malta, Dec 1989; the inclement weather during the summit, Malta, Dec 1989; the banquet held aboard the USS BELKNAP during the summit, Dec 1989; the possibility of the USS BELKNAP being grounded during the storms, Malta, Dec 1989; Sigler's opinion that the Cold War began at the Yalta summit, Feb 1945, and ended at the Malta summit, Dec 1989; the collapse of the USSR, Dec 1991; Sigler's reaction to the Soviet coup d'etat against Gorbachev, Aug 1991; the use of anti-seasickness medication by the US delegation during the Malta summit, Dec 1989; the resignation of Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, and the dissolution of the Party, 24 and 29 Aug 1991; the television announcement, by US President Bush, that the Cold War was over, Dec 1991; the legacy of the Cold War, 1991-1997. 23pp

Transcripts of filmed interviews with Frederick Joseph Widmer, Radio Telephone Operator for Capt Medina, C Company, 1st Bn, 20th Inf, US Army, describing his activities in the US Army including, enlisting and training; arriving in Vietnam; contact with Vietnamese villagers; briefing prior to the operation at My Lai and his part in the massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, 16 Mar 1968; assisting the injured Herbert Carter, to the medical evacuation helicopter; the reaction of members of the Company to the massacre; and his feelings about his actions twenty years later. 60pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Roy Welch, Engineer, South Western Bell Telephone Company, Dallas, Texas, USA, 1957, relating to the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I Earth orbiting satellite, Oct 1957; Welch's use of amateur radio equipment to hear the beeps made by Sputnik I from space, Oct 1957; Welch's audio tape recording of the beeps from Sputnik I, 6 Oct 1957; Welch's feeling that the USA ought to have beaten the USSR into putting a satellite into Earth orbit, 1957. 17pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Anatoly Koriagin, psychiatrist and Soviet dissident, relating to his protest against psychiatric abuse of Soviet dissidents, including his own arrest, conditions of imprisonment and hunger strikes. 21pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor William Reid Kaufmann, Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996, relating to the differences in nuclear strategy between the administrations of US Presidents Dwight David Eisenhower and John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1960-1961; the US Strategic Air Command's Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) for the use of nuclear weapons against the USSR, 1960; the 'whiz kids', defence advisors brought into the US Pentagon mostly from the RAND Corporation and the Harvard Business School, by US Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara, 1961-1968; the poor relationship between the US military establishment and McNamara and the 'whiz kids', 1961-1968; the relationship between McNamara and the US Strategic Air Command (SAC), USAF, and particularly with US Gen Curtis E LeMay and Gen Thomas S Power, 1961-1968; a presentation given by Kaufmann on counterforce theory at SAC Headquarters, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, and the opposition to the theory shown by US Gen Power, [1962]; the employment of McNamara's 'whiz kids' on the 'ninety six trombones', ninety six separate studies into aspects of US defense policy, 1961-1968; the US nuclear doctrine of counterforce, emphasising limited nuclear strikes against an enemy's armed forces and not against civilian populations, 1962; the US strategic doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD), 1967; the planned US deployment of one thousand LGM-30A Minuteman I Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), [1962]; the targetting of Moscow, USSR, by US ICBMs, 1961-1968; speeches made by McNamara on US defense policy in Athens, Greece, and Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, USA, [1961-1962]; the US reaction to the detonation of the first Chinese atomic bomb, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Oct 1964; the summit meeting between US President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA, Jun 1967; the Soviet development of an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, [1968-1969]; the US development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs), [1968-1972]; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), 1969-1979; the omission of discussions on the limitation of MIRVs during the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), 1969-1972; the Palomares incident, the collision of a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and a Boeing KC-135 tanker aircraft over Spain resulting in the loss of the two aircraft and the crash landing of four thermonuclear weapons, Jan 1966; the face off between Soviet and US tanks, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Germany, Oct 1961. 36pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Theodore Geiger, Economist, US State Department, [1945-1947], and assistant to deputy of Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) administering the Marshall Plan in the US, [1948-1951], and Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, relating to the instigation and development of the Marshall Plan for European reconstruction, 1948, including the impact of the US President Truman's speech to the US Congress concerning US military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey, Feb 1947 (Truman Doctrine speech); the alteration in direction of US foreign policy Jan-Jun 1947 the announcement of the Marshall Plan, Jun 1947; the passage of the plan's legislation through Congress, Mar 1948; the establishment of bodies such as the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA), the European Reconstruction Program (ERP), the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC); the strategy of the plan for reducing inflation in European countries; the logistics of the plan; the cost of he plan and its impact on the US economy; the short and long term impact of the plan on Europe. 52pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Roger Hilsman, Jr, Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US State Department, 1961-1963, US Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, 1963-1964, and Professor of Government, Columbia University, New York, USA, 1964-1986, relating to US involvement in the Vietnam conflict, 1961-1975; the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; and US Soviet relations. 59pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Prof Robert C Tucker, US civilian attaché, Moscow, 1945-46, academic and author, relating to the Victory Day celebrations, Moscow, USSR, following the German surrender, 9 May 1945 and US Soviet relations at that time; working in the US Embassy in Moscow with George F Kennan, US diplomat and author of the 'long telegram', an analysis of Soviet policies in the light of Russian history, Feb 1946; post-war atmosphere in the Soviet Union and the reaction of the Soviet people to the reintroduction of five year plans by Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 1946; response of the Soviet Union to the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1948, and Soviet pressure on eastern European countries to reject the plan; the influence of the Stalin cult and its impact on Stalin's seventieth birthday celebrations, Dec 1949; Stalin's anti-foreign policies including the Anti-marriage act 1947, preventing Soviet women citizens married to non-Soviet citizens from leaving the country; and Tucker's views on the legacy of the Cold War in the US and in Russia. 51pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Marianne Debouzy, French academic and author, relating to the popularity of the French Communist Party, France, 1947; speculation on whether France was on the verge of becoming a communist state, 1947-1948; US fears that France and Italy would become communist states, 1947-1948; social and economic hardship in post-war France, 1945-1948; industrial unrest in France, 1947; the effects of the strikes by transport and power workers in Paris, France, 1947; the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1948. 14pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies, King's College London, relating to the causes, danger and demise of the Cold War. 6pp