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Typescript transcript of interview with Choi Yong-Gu, Republic of Korea Marine Corps, 1949-[1955], relating to his experience of the Korean War, including the landing at Inchon, Sep 1950, the liberation of Seoul, fighting against the Chinese army, the Chosin Hungnam evacuation, Dec 1950. 12pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Anika Vajda, veteran of the Hungarian uprising, Oct-Nov 1956, relating to Soviet intervention in Hungary, Nov 1956; the broadcasts of Radio Free Europe, 1956; the conditions in Hungary under Soviet control, 1945-1956; the activities of the Hungarian Communist Party, 1955-1956; the Hungarian reaction to the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 5 Mar 1953. 24pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Raymond 'Doc' Frazier, US Army Ambulance Driver, Guam, Jun 1950, and POW, People's Democratic Republic of (North) Korea, May 1951-[Aug] 1953, relating to the popularity of the Korean War in the US Army, Jun 1950; Frazier's arrival in Korea, Jan 1951; conditions in Korea, Jan-Apr 1951; Frazier's relations with Korean civilians, 1951; the over-running of 1 and 2 Bn, 38 Regt, US 2 Div, by overwhelming numbers of Chinese troops, May 1951; Frazier's capture by the Chinese, May 1951; Frazier's account of the forced march by POWs to a mining camp in North Korea, May-Jul 1951; living conditions, food and sanitation in the POW camp, Jul 1951; disease and malnutrition during captivity, Jul-Oct 1951; Frazier's move to Chngson POW camp, North Korea, Oct 1951; the employment of communist indoctrination and brain-washing techniques on UN POWs, Chngson camp, North Korea, 1951-1953; the organised disruption, by US POWs, of the Chinese communist indoctrination programme, Chngson camp, [1952]; physical tortures inflicted on the POWs by the Chinese, 1952-1953; Frazier's reaction to the end of the Korean War, Jul 1953; Frazier's release from captivity and his greeting in South Korea from President Syngman Rhee and US Gen Maxwell Taylor, [Aug] 1953. 27pp

Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel, 1984-1986 and 1995-1996; Minister for Foreign Affairs, 2001-2002, describing the funeral of King Hassan of Morocco, Jul 1999; meeting between Peres and Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority 1994-2004, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan 2001; the assassination of Gen Rehavam ‘Ghandi’ Zeevi, Israeli Minister of Tourism, Oct 2001; the capture of a weapons shipment from the Palestinian freighter KARINE A, Jan 2002; the assassination of al-Asqsa Martyrs’ Brigade member Raed Karmi, Jan 2002; the Hamas suicide bombing of the Park Hotel, Netanya, Israel, Mar 2002; debate over how the Israeli government should deal with Yasser Arafat; the visit of Gen Colin Powell, US Secretary of State 2001-2005, to Israel, 2002; the UN Security Council resolution to send a fact finding mission to investigate Operation DEFENSIVE SHIELD, Jenin, Apr 2002; negotiations with the US administration to end the first siege of Arafat’s compound, Ramallah, West Bank, Mar-May 2002; his opinion of Yasser Arafat.

Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel 1996-1999, and Foreign Minister 2002-2003, describing his opinion on how the Israeli government should deal with Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority 1994-2004 and reduce terrorist attacks; the Israeli government’s reaction to the road map for peace plan, Nov 2002; the effectiveness of the security fence; problems with the new Abu Ala’a (Ahmed Ali Mohammed Qurei), Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority 2003-2006, Sept 2003; the decision to assassinate Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas leader, Mar 2004; the reception by the Israeli government to the disengagement plan from Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel 2001-2006, Dec 2003.

Typescript transcript of interview with Ja Wong Dong, Republic of Korea Army, 1950, relating to his capture by forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), May 1951, and his experiences as a prisoner of war camps in North Korea. 10pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Zoria Serebriakova, daughter of Leonid Serebriakov, a leader of the 1917 Russian revolution, and the member of the Left Opposition, 1923, who was executed 1937, relating to the reaction in the Soviet Union, to the death of Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1953; the Soviet policy under Nikita Khrushchev, and General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1953-1964; and her experience in Soviet Gulag labour camp, 1937. 10pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Aga Gul, former Afghan police officer, relating to his arrest for involvement with coup d'etat plot against Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan President of Afghanistan, 1973-1978; joining the Mujahedin, and the war against the Soviet invasion forces, 1979-1989. 4pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Ge Yang, a soldier with the New Force Army and the People's Liberation Army, China, 1941-1949, and ran the New Observer Magazine, 1950-[1970], relating to the reaction, amongst the Chinese population, of the victory of the communists in the Chinese Civil War, Oct 1949; the support and enthusiasm for the Communist Party in China, 1950-1953; the opinion of the Chinese people on the actions of the USA and the Nationalist Chinese Party, the Kuomintang, 1950-1953; the reaction in China to the US military involvement in the Korean War, 1950-1953; the reporting of the Korean War in China, 1950-1953; the 'golden age' of Sino-Soviet relations, 1950-1956; speculation on Soviet influence in China's decision to intervene in the Korean War, 1950; the deterioration in relations between China and the USSR, 1956-1959; the denunciation of Ge Yang as a 'rightist', 1958; the reaction in China to the breakdown in relations with the USSR, 1959; the publication of anti-Soviet propaganda in China, 1959-1960; the Mao personality cult, 1944-1976; the detonation of the first Chinese atomic bomb, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Oct 1964; the Chinese nuclear development programme, [1958]-1964; the Cultural Revolution, the reassertion of Maoist doctrines in China, and its impact on China's international standing, 1965-1968; speculation on the possibility of a war between China and the USA over Chinese aggression against Taiwan, 1969. 14pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Kim Ngoc Quang, NVA (North Vietnamese Army) soldier and truck driver on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, [1964-1975], relating to Quang's service driving supplies along the Ho Chi Minh Trail prior to the Tet offensive, 1967-1968; US Boeing B-52 Stratofortress raids on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1967-1968; the capture of Saigon by the NVA, Apr 1975. 9pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Bui Van Tung, former NVA (North Vietnamese Army) soldier, 1975, relating to the capture of Saigon by the NVA, Apr 1975; the arrest of South Vietnamese President Gen Duong Van Minh, Saigon, Apr 1975; the announcement by President Minh of the South Vietnamese capitulation, Apr 1975. 9pp

Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Michael Abraham Levy, Baron of Mill Hill, British Prime Minister’s personal envoy to the Middle East, 1999-2007, describing his visit to Damascus, Syria, to encourage the resumption of negotiations between Israel and Syria, 1999, and the Palestinian decision to appoint a Prime Minister for the Palestinian Authority, Jan 2003.

Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Shams Badran, Egyptian Minister of Defence, 1966-1967.

Typescript transcript of interview with Lev Mischenko, student and researcher, Academy of Sciences Institute, Moscow University, USSR, [1940-1942], relating to his service with the Red Army, 1944; his capture by the German Army and imprisonment at Buchenwald concentration camp and a slave labour camp, Saxony, Germany, 1944-1945; his liberation by the US Army, Apr 1945; his arrest for espionage by the Red Army, 1945, and imprisonment in the Soviet Gulag slave labour camps, 1946-1954; and the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 5 Mar 1953. 24pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Anatoly Bondarev, member of Komsomol, the Soviet Communist Party youth organisation, [1961-1965], relating to Bondarev's opinion of the Cuban revolution and to the socialist government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), 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 deployment of Soviet military equipment and personnel to Cuba, 1962; the high level of secrecy maintained during Bondarev's voyage to Cuba, 1962; US reconnaissance flights over Soviet ships bound for Cuba, 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the US naval blockade of Cuba, 1962; Bondarev's account of his voyage from the Baltic to Cuba on board the supply ship BRODSK, 1962; Soviet attempts to avoid the US blockade of Cuba, 1962; the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, Oct-Nov 1962. 19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Zdenek Mylnar [or Mlynar], Czech reform communist, relating to the attempts in Czechoslovakia to reform communism including his role in the authorship of the 1968 Action Programme document which set out socialist reforms; the response of Leonid Brezhnev, Gen Secretary Communist Party, USSR, 1964-1982, to these reforms; the summoning of Alexander Dubcek, Czechoslovakian First Secretary 1969-1969, to Moscow for meeting with Soviet leaders; the invasion of Prague, Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops, 20-21 Aug 1968; Dubcek's negotiations with Soviet leaders in Moscow, Aug 1968; Mylnars resignation from the Communist Party; development of reform movements during the 1970s and the significance of the Charter 77 document published on Jan 1977, and signed by over 200 individuals calling for Czech fulfilment of the Helsinki Final Act, 1975, relating to human rights, to which it was a signatory; and the relationship between Brezhnev and Dubcek. 22pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Raul Vergara, Chilean Air Force officer, relating to the character of the Chilean armed forces; his appointment to work in the Ministry of the Economy to assist in the distribution of consumer goods, 1973; his experience of the military coup d'etat, 11 Sep 1973; his arrest, torture, imprisonment and expulsion from Chile, 1978; exile in Britain and contact with Nicaraguan Sandinista Front; and his role in building the Nicaraguan Air force. 26pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Morton H Halperin, Deputy Assistant Secretary, US Department of Defense, Washington DC, USA, 1966-1969, Senior Staff Member, US National Security Council, 1969, and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 1969-1973, relating to the US involvement in the Vietnam conflict, 1961-1975, including US reaction to the North Vietnamese Tet offensive, 1967-1968; the character of US public opposition to involvement in Vietnam, 1968; US President Richard Nixon's plans for withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam; US President Gerald Ford's support for withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam, 1974; US public reaction to the fall of Saigon, 1975; US support for French during the French Indochina War 1946-1954; failure of successive US administrations to learn from the past concerning Vietnamese political aspirations; deployment of 50000 US troops in Vietnam and percentage of this number engaged in actual fighting; and the lack of an overall US strategy for Vietnam operations. 17pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Director, Office of Research on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, US Department of State, 1952-1969, Senior Staff Member, US National Security Council, 1969-1974, Counsellor, US Department of State, 1974-1977, and Guest Scholar, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA, [1996], relating to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), 1969-1972; the US strategic policy of flexible response, 1961; the summit meeting between US President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA, Jun 1967; the US and Soviet development of anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs); the omission of discussions on the limitation of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs) during the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), 1969-1972; the increase in the number of US and Soviet nuclear warheads deployed following the ratification of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), 1972; the relationship between the US and Soviet negotiating teams during SALT, 1969-1972; the difficulty in translating complex technical terminology into understandable Russian and English, SALT, 1969-1972; the importance of the 'back channel' negotiations between Dr Henry (Alfred) Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1969-1972, and Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, during SALT, 1969-1972; the role of Kissinger during SALT, 1969-1972; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975. 27pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Anatoly Sergeyevich Cherniayev, assistant to Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1985-1991, relating to Gorbachev's foreign policies and recognition of the need for reform within the Soviet political system, including his meeting with Margaret Hilda Thatcher, British Prime Minister 1979-1990, 1984; the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster, Apr 1986; the Nineteenth Party Congress, 1988; Soviet relations with the Reagan administration, and the decision to withdraw Soviet forces from Afghanistan, 1988. 17pp