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Typescript transcript of interview with Jack Joseph Valenti, Special Assistant to US President Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1966, and Chairman, Alliance Motion Picture and Television Producers Incorporated, 1966-[1996], relating to the personal and political character of Lyndon Baines Johnson, US Vice President, 1961-1963 and President, 1963-1969. 21pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Jack Joseph Valenti, Special Assistant to US President Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1966, and Chairman, Alliance Motion Picture and Television Producers Incorporated, 1966-[1996], relating to the US involvement in Vietnam, 1961-1975, the impact of the 'domino theory', a notion that if one country becomes communist, other states in the region would probably follow, on US foreign policy, 1961-1969; the impact of the policies of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, US President 1961-1963, and his successor Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969; the influence of Robert Strange McNamara, US Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968, on Johnson's prosecution of the war; Johnson's change in policy on Vietnam following the presidential election, 1964; the impact of television reporting of the war in Vietnam on US public opinion; the decision of Johnson not to seek re-election, 1968; policies of Richard Milhous Nixon, US President 1969-1974, concerning a new US offensive in Vietnam, 1968. 24pp

Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Noam Chayut, Israeli Defence Force Officer 1998-2003, describing the occupation of Tulkarem (Tulkarm), Oct 2001 and giving a detailed account of his experiences commanding an Israeli Defence Force regiment during Operation DEFENSIVE SHIELD, Jenin, Apr 2002; with analysis of the psychological and moral impact of the operation on the soldiers and civilians involved.

Typescript transcript of interview with Isabel Margarita Morel de Letelier, wife of Orlando de Letelier, Chilean Ambassador to the US, and Minister for Foreign Relations, Minister of the Interior, and minister of Defense, 1973, relating to the overthrow of the Allende government of Chile, Sep 1973, including her husband's career during Allende's government 1970-1973; US attitudes to Allende, and involvement in the military coup d'etat, Sep 1973; her husband's imprisonment, 1973, release, 1974, and murder, Sep 1976. 24pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Isabel Jaramillo Edwards, private member of staff to Salvador Allende (Gossens), President of Chile, 1970-1973, relating to US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activity to destabilise the government of Chile, 1970-1973; attempts by the USA to prevent Allende assuming the Presidency of Chile, 1970; the reaction within Allende's administration to the US interference in Chilean affairs, 1970-1973; US intervention in the internal affairs of Guatemala, 1954, and the Dominican Republic, 1965; the reaction of Allende to the possibility of a military coup d'etat in Chile, 1972-1973; the coup d'etat against Allende's government by the Chilean armed forces, led by Gen Augusto Pinochet, Sep 1973; Edwards' escape from the Presidential Palace to the Cuban Embassy, Santiago, Chile, 11 Sep 1973; the announcement of the formation of a Chilean military junta and the death of President Allende, Sep 1973; the summons by the Chilean military junta for all members of Allende's government and staff members to report to the Chilean Ministry of Defence, Sep 1973; the influence of the USA on the Chilean coup d'etat, Sep 1973. 29pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Irina Platanovna Drabkina, relating to Soviet relations with German civilians, Germany, 1946-1949; the Soviet blockade of West Berlin and the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949; the improved standard of living for the population of West Berlin over conditions in East Berlin, 1948-1949; the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 5 Mar 1953. 5pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Yuli Kvitsinsky, translator at the Soviet Embassy in Berlin, 1959-[1962] relating to the decision of the German Democratic Republic government to close the border in Berlin and construct the Berlin Wall, 1961, and the significance of Soviet relations. 22pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Werner Eberlein, interpreter to Walter Ulbricht, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party, 1950-1971, relating to relations between Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR), 1949-1961; relations between the GDR and the USSR,1949-1961; the closure of the GDR border and the construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961. 36pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Vladimir Yerofeyev, French language translator for Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, [1945]-1953, relating to the death of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 12 Apr 1945; the attendance at the United Nations Organisation Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, of (Skryabin) Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, Apr-Jun 1945; the Victory Day celebrations, Moscow, USSR, 9 May 1945; 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; the decision, by US President Harry S Truman, to inform Stalin of the USA's possession of the atomic bomb, Jul 1945; the relationship between Stalin and Molotov, 1941-1953; the character of Stalin, 1941-1945; the joint occupation of Iran by Soviet and British forces, 1941-1946; the reaction in the USSR to the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1948; the Soviet blockade of West Berlin and the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949; the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 1949; the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the Cominform (Communist Information Bureau), an organisation to co-ordinate Communist Party activities throughout Europe, Jun 1948; the 'Doctor's plot', an anti-Semitic conspiracy against Jewish Doctors who had treated leading members of the Soviet Communist Party, 1950-1953; and the death of Stalin, 5 Mar 1953. 54pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Victor Sukhodrev, interpreter to Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretaries of the Communist Party, USSR 1953-1982, Aleksei Kosygin, Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars, 1964-1980, and Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister,1957-1985, relating to Soviet US relations including meetings between Brezhnev, and Richard Nixon, US President 1969-1974, May 1972, and Jun 1973; the role of Henry Alfred Kissinger, US National Security Advisor, 1969-1972, in relations between the US and USSR; the first ever use of the hotline between Moscow and Washington during the Six Day War, Jun 1967; and Kosygin's meeting with Lyndon Baines Johnson, US President, 1963-1969, at Glassboro, New Jersey, Jun 1967. 55pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Alexander Bogomolov, Russian translator for the government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (East Germany), relating to the development of GDR as a communist state and German Soviet relations, (1950s). 21pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Dino Brugioni, Chief of Information branch, US National Photographic Interpretation Centre, 1962, relating to the use of aerial photography for intelligence purposes, particularly during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962. 20pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Gianni Agnelli, leading Italian industrialist, and Chairman of Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (FIAT), 1966-1996, relating to social and economic hardship in postwar Italy, 1945-1948; the influence of US Marshall Plan investment in saving FIAT from liquidation, Turin, Italy, 1948-1950; the Italian election campaign, Apr 1948; the popularity of the Italian Communist Party, 1948; the role of the Marshall Plan in preventing the spread of Communism in western Europe, 1948-[1952]. 9pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Kathy Fitzpatrick, US human rights campaigner, relating to her involvement in the US Helsinki Watch Committee, a group established to monitor abuses of human rights by countries which had signed the Helsinki Act, 1975, including the inclusion of human rights in the US foreign policy during the Carter administration; her visits to the USSR to gather information about the status of dissidents (1980s). 38pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Hortensia Allende, wife of Salvador Allende (Gossens), as President of Chile, 1970-1973, relating to the tensions between Chile and following the election of Allende, 1970; Allende's plans for a plebiscite, Sep 1973; and the military coup d'etat, Sep 1973. 8pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Vladeslav Zubok, historian and research fellow at the National Security Archive, Washington, relating to the causes, danger and demise of the Cold War. 12pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Mikhail Semiryaga, Red Army, [1941-1946], relating to the capture of Berlin, Germany, by the Red Army, Apr-May 1945; the destruction in Berlin, 1945; the feeding of the German civilian population of Berlin by the Red Army, 1945; the demilitarisation of Germany, 1945; the attitude of the Soviet population towards German civilians, 1945; Soviet support for the German Communist Party, 1945-1946; relations between the USSR and the Western Allies, 1945-1948; the Soviet blockade of West Berlin and the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949. 38pp

Transcript of filmed interview with Hugh Clowers Thompson Jnr, helicopter pilot, Warrant Officer 1, US Army, served in Vietnam during 1968, describing events he witnessed during the My Lai massacre 16 Mar 1968; rescuing a number of Vietnamese civilians; his attitude to members of C Company; reporting the massacre to his superiors and the chaplain; and his attitude to the later investigations and trials. 41pp

Transcript of filmed interview with Ronald Ridenhour, (mislabelled as Ron Haeberle,) C Company 1st Bn, 20th Inf, US Army, stationed in Vietnam 1968-1969, describing hearing reports of a massacre of Vietnamese civilians by US forces at Pinkville, his attitude to the soldiers involved, and reasons for instigating further inquiry into the incident. 37pp

Transcripts of filmed interview with Lawrence M Colburn, helicopter door gunner, 123rd Aviation Bn, US Army, describing his experiences at My Lai, Vietnam, 16 Mar 1968, as crew member in OH-23 helicopter piloted by Hugh Thompson, including the actions of Thompson in evacuating Vietnamese civilians from the village, and the execution of Vietnamese civilian by US Forces. 62pp