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Typescript transcript of interview with Georgy Arbatov, Russian scholar, foreign policy advisor to Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party, USSR, 1964-1982, relating to Soviet foreign policy under Brezhnev, including relations with the US, visit of Richard Nixon, US President, 1969-1974, to Moscow, 1971, and development of economic links between USSR and US following détente between the two nations, 1969-1975. 30pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Conrad Schumann, German Democratic Republic policemen, relating to his involvement in the construction of the Berlin Wall, 12 Aug 1961, and his defection to West Berlin, 15 Aug 1961. 11pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Yevgeni (Aleksandrovich) Yevtushenko, Soviet poet and critic of the Soviet regime, 1955-1990, relating to the Moscow youth Festival, 1957; censorship in the USSR, 1917-1990; the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968; the character and leadership of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953-1964; the impact of Yevtushenko's poetry on the youth of the USSR and the reaction of the Soviet authorities, 1955-1962; Yevtushenko's reaction in [1956] to the news of the existence of the Soviet Gulag labour camps following the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 1953; Khrushchev's support for the doctrine of social realism in art and his rejection of abstract art, 1963; the trial and imprisonment in the USSR of Yuli Markovich Daniel (pseudonym Nikolai Arzhak) and Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (pseudonym Abraham Tertz), charged with anti-Soviet propaganda for the publication of satirical short stories in the West, 1966; the influence of the life of Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960, on other Soviet writers and poets, and the importance of the publication of Doctor Zhivago (Feltrinelli, Milan, Italy, 1957) in the West, 1957, and in the USSR, 1988; the event, in Yevtushenko's opinion, that signified the end of the Cold War, the speech by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, to a forum of international intellectuals, stating that human values were above politics and the class struggle, [1989]; the influence of the Cold War on Soviet culture and society, 1945-1989; Khrushchev's decision 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. 49pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Allen Ginsberg, poet, relating to US social culture during the 1950s and 1960s, including his own philosophy and influences on his writing, his involvement in protest movements, and government censorship. 51pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Vassily Ambrosovich Poliakov, Soviet interceptor pilot, 1952-[1965], relating to US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reconnaissance missions over the USSR, 1956-1960; the Soviet deployment of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 19 'Farmer' fighter aircraft to intercept US reconnaissance aircraft over the USSR, 1956-1960; the shooting down, near Sverdlovsk, USSR, of a CIA Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, and the capture of the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, May 1960; the shooting down by Poliakov of a USAF Boeing RB-47 Stratojet aircraft over the Barents Sea and the rescue and capture of two of the aircrew, Capt John B McKone and Capt Freeman Bruce Olmstead, 1 Jul 1960; the imprisonment and treatment of the captured US aircrew, 1960. 19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Gennadi Osipovich, Soviet air force pilot, relating to his role in the shooting down of Korean Air Lines flight 007, over Soviet airspace, Aug 1983; Soviet air force training; his attitude to reforms in the Soviet Unions introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991. 10pp

Typescript transcript of interview with John (Herschel) Glenn, Jr, US Senator for Ohio, 1975-[1997], relating to Glenn's qualification as a fighter pilot and his arrival in Korea, Dec 1952; Glenn's opinion on whether the USA was justified in its involvement in the Korean War, 1950-1953; the popularity of US military involvement in Korea amongst the US population, Jun 1950; the air war in Korea, 1950-1953; Glenn's participation in jet versus jet air combat, 1953; Glenn's awareness that Soviet pilots were serving in North Korean and Chinese units in Korea, 1953; Glenn's respect for enemy pilots in Korea, 1953; the operational flying of Grumann F-9 Panthers and North American F-86 Sabres over Korea, 1953; the comparison between the US F-86 Sabre and the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 'Fagot' as fighter aircraft, 1953; the US operational instruction for pilots not to pursue enemy aircraft across the Yalu River into Chinese airspace, 1953; Glenn's accounts of air combat over Korea, 1953; the human cost of US military involvement in Korea, 1950-1953; the lack of US public interest in the Korean War, 1953. 19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Pierre Salinger, Press Secretary to US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963, relating to the importance of the Federal Republic of Germany to the western alliance and the influence of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1951, and 1957-1963, on Kennedy's approach to the Berlin Crisis, 1961; the Federal Republic of Germany as an integral part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and to the defence of western Europe, 1955-1963; the attempt by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, to achieve détente with the USA by removing the problem of Berlin, 1958; the influence of the Bay of Pigs incident, Cuba, Apr 1961, on the summit meeting between Khrushchev and Kennedy, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1961; a meeting between Salinger and Khrushchev, May 1962; the speech made by Kennedy, broadcast on US television, on the Berlin Crisis, 25 Jul 1961; the slowness of the US response to the Soviet construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961; the visit of US Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson to West Berlin, Aug 1961; the reaction of Kennedy to a letter by Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, complaining of US inaction over the construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961; the ordering of US troops to travel through the German Democratic Republic on the autobahn in order to reinforce West Berlin, 1961; the influx of refugees from East Berlin to West Berlin, 1961; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the discovery of the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba through US reconnaissance photography, 16 Oct 1962; the television broadcast by US President Kennedy to the USA announcing the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba, Oct 1962; the US naval blockade of Cuba, Oct 1962; communications between the White House and the Kremlin during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the character and leadership of Kennedy during the crisis, Oct 1962. 39pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Herbert Frank York, Physicist, Manhattan Project, 1942-1946, Director, Defense Research and Engineering, Office of the US Secretary of Defense, 1958-1961, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego, USA, 1964-[1988], and US Ambassador to the Comprehensive Test Ban Negotiations, 1979-1981, relating to the US reaction to the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, 29 Aug 1949; US development of thermonuclear weapons (Hydrogen bombs), 1949-1952; the opposition by Dr Julius Robert Oppenheimer, to the US development of thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs) 1948-1952; the importance of Professor Edward Teller in the US thermonuclear development programme, 1949-1952; detonation of the first US hydrogen bomb, MIKE test, Operation IVY, Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, 31 Oct 1952; the US BRAVO test, Operation CASTLE, Bikini Atoll, Marshall islands, Pacific Ocean, 28 Feb 1954; the radioactive contamination of the Japanese fishing vessel FUKURYU MARU (LUCKY DRAGON) and its crew, from US thermonuclear tests, Operation CASTLE, Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, Mar 1954; the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) investigation against Robert Oppenheimer, 1953-1954; Oppenheimer's connections with left wing organisations, [1942]-1954; the 'bomber gap', the US belief that the USSR had more strategic bombers in operational service than the USAF, [1955-1957]; the US use of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) piloted Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft in missions over the USSR to search for Soviet ICBM silos, 1956-1960; US reaction to the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites via SS-6 'Sapwood' Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), Oct and Nov 1957; the role played by German scientist Wernher von Braun in the development of US ICBMs and rockets for the US space programme, [1955-1970]; the failed attempt by the USA to launch the Vanguard rocket, Dec 1957; von Braun's involvement in the German development of the V2 rocket, Peenemünde, Germany, 1943-1945; the Gaither Report, a Ford Foundation Commission Study, that concluded that the USSR was ahead of the USA in the production of nuclear missiles, Oct 1957; 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; the US Lockheed Corona reconnaissance satellite programme, 1956-[1960]; the 'missile gap', a US perception of the advantage held by the Soviets in the production of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), [1958]-1960; York's work for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), US Department of Defense, in the search for a US earth orbiting satellite, 1958; the importance of the RAND Corporation in US defense programmes, [1955-1970]; the detonation by the USSR of a 50 megaton nuclear weapon, Novaya Zemlya Island, USSR, 30 Oct 1961; the detonation of the first British thermonuclear weapon, Operation GRAPPLE, Malden Island, Line Islands, Pacific Ocean, May 1957; competition in US nuclear research and development between the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, 1945-1954. 55pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Professor Edward Teller, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, USA, 1960-1975, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, California, USA, 1975-[1989], relating to the US reaction to the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, 29 Aug 1949; the Soviet exploitation of espionage to further the development of nuclear weapons, 1945-1949; the arrest of Dr Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, a nuclear physicist, for passing atomic secrets to the USSR, 1950; the US thermonuclear (Hydrogen bomb) development programme, 1949-1952; the US BRAVO test, Operation CASTLE, Bikini Atoll, Marshall islands, Pacific Ocean, 28 Feb 1954; the radioactive contamination of the Japanese fishing vessel FUKURYU MARU (LUCKY DRAGON) and its crew, from US thermonuclear tests, Operation CASTLE, Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, Mar 1954; the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites via SS-6 'Sapwood' Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), Oct and Nov 1957; the deterrent role of thermonuclear weapons during the Cold War, 1952-1990; the opposition by Dr Julius Robert Oppenheimer, to the US development of thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs) 1948-1952; the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) investigation against Robert Oppenheimer, 1953-1954. 16pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Harold Melvin Agnew, former Director, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, 1970-1979, relating to the reaction in the USA to the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, JOE 1, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, 29 Aug 1949; the role of espionage in the Soviet nuclear development programme, 1945-1949; the arrest of Dr Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, a nuclear physicist, for passing atomic secrets to the USSR, 1950; nuclear research at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1946-1949; US military requirements for nuclear weapons, 1945-1949; US development of thermonuclear weapons (Hydrogen bombs), 1949-1952; the detonation of the first US hydrogen bomb, MIKE test, Operation IVY, Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, 31 Oct 1952; the conflict between US military and civilian control of nuclear energy, 1946-[1955]; competition between Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California, USA, during the Operation IVY hydrogen bomb tests, Oct-Nov 1952; the build up of the deployment of US nuclear weapons, 1961-1969; the radioactive contamination of the Japanese fishing vessel FUKURYU MARU (LUCKY DRAGON) and its crew, from US thermonuclear tests, Operation CASTLE, Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, Mar 1954; the US reaction to the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites via SS-6 'Sapwood' Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), Oct and Nov 1957; the Korean War, 1950-1953. 33pp

Transcript of filmed interview with Ronald L Haeberle, photographer, 31st Public Information Office, US Army, describing events at My Lai, Vietnam, 16 Mar 1968, the photographs that he took during the operation, and the reaction of American to the photographs following his return to the US. 64pp

Typescript transcript of interview with David Rubinger, Israeli photographer, relating to Israeli conflict with Egypt, including his experiences during the Six Day War, Jun 1967; the Yom Kippur War, Oct 1973; and the visit of Anwar Al Sadat, Egyptian President 1970-1981, to Israel, 1977. 22pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Susanne Willems, German Peace Movement activist, relating to the German Peace Movement campaign against the deployment of nuclear missiles in Western Europe (1978-1983). 26pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Jochen Laessig, relating to opposition to the government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and participation in the protests in Leipzig, Nov 1989. 14pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Paul Robeson, Jr, son of the US singer and actor Paul (Bustill) Robeson, relating to the career and activities of his father including his immense popularity as a black American; his friendship with the US President Franklin D Roosevelt; his outspoken challenge to cultural racism in the US; his investigation by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 1943; the defeat of the Progressive Party in the 1945 US election; his confrontation with US President Harry S Truman over the treatment of black Americans; the cancellation of his 1948 US tour due to FBI pressure; his tour of Europe and address to the World Congress of Partisans of Peace in Paris, France, 19 Apr 1949; visit to the Soviet Union and meeting with Jewish-Soviet poet Yitzhak Pfeffer; the final concert of his Soviet tour [1949]; threats to his life (1949); events at the Civil Rights Congress benefit concert at Peekskill, New York, cancelled due to rioting, 27 Aug 1949 and the rescheduled concert 3 Sep 1949, followed by rioting; the press reaction to the marriage of Paul Robeson Jr to a white woman, a the withdrawal of his passport, 1950, and restriction of freedom to travel; the impact of this on his performance career. 33pp

Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Ziad Abu Amar, academic and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, describing his talks with Hamas on behalf of Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), President of the Palestinian National Authority 2005-2008 ; the ceasefire declared by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Jun 2003; the Hamas suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus, Aug 2003. Also transcript of the same filmed interview, with minor differences in text and editing.

Typescript transcript of interview with Brigadier Mohammad Yousaf, Pakistan Army, head of Afghan Bureau of Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), 1983-1987, relating to the involvement of Pakistan in the war in Afghanistan 1978-1988, including the strategic importance of Afghanistan; reasons for the Soviet invasion, 1979; role of the US Central Intelligence Agency and US Military aid for Pakistan and the anti-Soviet Mujahedin fighters in Afghanistan. 30pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Martin Mejstrik, Czechoslovak student, and opposition leader, relating to his opposition to the Czechoslovak government, including his presence at the Leipzig anti-government demonstrations, Oct 1989; his role in the organisation of the anti-government demonstration in Prague, 17 Nov 1989; the development of the opposition movement and his role in the foundation of Civic Forum, organisation of reform supporters. 10pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Florence Galing, US Army officer wife, relating to her impressions of the personality of Ronald Reagan and his success as US President, 1981-1989. 8pp