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Typescript transcript of interview with Fedor Mochulski, Soviet Embassy Official in China 1951-1966, relating to relations between the USSR and China, including their response to US involvement in the Vietnam conflict. 47pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Anatoly Kovaliov, Soviet assistant to High Commissioner, East Berlin, (1949-1952) relating to USSR relations with Germany, in particularly the German Democratic Republic (GDR), 1949-1956, and Hungary, 1956. 21pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Egon KrenzGeneral Secretary of the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party and responsible for internal security, and Chairman of the Council of State, German Democratic Republic (GDR), Oct-Dec 1989, relating to the response of the GDR government to political reforms in Hungary, and in the Soviet Union; relations between Erich Honecker, GDR Chairman of the Council of State, 1976-1989, and Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991; the anti-government demonstrations in Leipzig, his succeeding Honecker as Chairman of the Council of State, Oct 1989; the opening of the GDR border in Berlin, Nov 1989; and the re-unification of Germany, 1990. 23pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Yakov Pevzner, Soviet economist, relating to the closure of the Soviet Institute of World Economics, [Moscow], USSR, as it was perceived to support the US Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1947; the reaction to the Marshall Plan in the USSR, 1947-1948; Pevzner's opinion on whether the USSR should have accepted the Marshall Plan, 1948; the Soviet belief that the implementation of the Marshall Plan in Europe was to ensure the spread of capitalist ideals, 1947-1948; the opposition of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin to the Marshall Plan, 1947-1948.

Typescript transcript of interview with Werner Herbig, relating to the economic conditions in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1953; the opinion of Germans to the reality of partition, [1952]; the character and leadership qualities of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1951, and 1957-1963; the East Berlin uprising, 17 Jun 1953; industrial unrest in Goelitz, German Democratic Republic, 1953; the announcement, by Walther Ulbricht, leader of the Socialist Unity Party, of the integration of the economy of the German Democratic Republic with the economies of the other East European Soviet satellite states, Jul 1952. 22pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Brigitte Flunker, East German factory worker, relating to the building of the Berlin Wall, and her defection to West Berlin, Aug 1961. 12pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Nguyen Van Ich, NVA (North Vietnamese Army) doctor, Vietnam, 1962-1970, relating to Ich's service during the Vietnam War, 1962-1970; the use of Agent Orange by US forces to defoliate the jungle, South Vietnam, Jan 1965-Apr 1970. 13pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Elie Krakowski, relating to US response to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, the Soviet invasion 1979 and the subsequent war, 1979-1989, including US Afghan relations; US Pakistan relations; provision of US military aid to Mujahedin forces in Afghanistan. 21pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Antonin Sum, Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry, and Private Secretary to Jan Masaryk, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs 1941-1948, relating to the importance of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Czechoslovakia, 1945-[1948]; the reaction of the Czech government to the US proposals that later became the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, [Apr] 1947; Sum's opinion of the Marshall Plan, 1948; the Czech government's stronger links with the Western Allies, [1946-1948]; the visit of Klement Gottwald, Czech Prime Minister, and Jan Masaryk, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Moscow, USSR, Jul 1947; pressure from Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin on the Czech delegation for Czechoslovakia to reject the Marshall Plan, Jul 1947; Sum's account of the communist coup d'etat, Prague, Czechoslovakia, Feb 1948; Czech fears of a Soviet military intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1948; the reaction of Masaryk to the communist coup d'etat, Feb-Mar 1948; Sum's reaction to the reported suicide of Masaryk, Mar 1948; speculation that Masaryk was murdered, Mar 1948; Masaryk's funeral ceremony, Prague, Mar 1948.

Typescript transcript of interview with Col Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, Soviet KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopastny, the Soviet Committee for State Security) Officer, 1962-1985, relating to the role of the KGB during the Cold War, 1953-1990; Gordievsky's commitment to the role of the KGB at the height of the Cold War, 1962-1963; the spread, via the KGB, of Soviet influence throughout the world, 1953-1990; how KGB operations could enable the USSR to win the Cold War, 1962-1985; the role of the GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye), the Soviet Military Intelligence Service, during the Cold War, 1953-1990; KGB and GRU operations in the UK, the USA and France, [1962-1985]; the effectiveness of intelligence gathering techniques of the KGB and GRU, 1962-1985; the useful intelligence that could be gathered from western newspapers, magazines and journals, 1962-1985; the expulsion of 105 Soviet agents from London, UK, by the British Government, 1971; the influence of the major spies, such as Oleg Penkovsky, Dmitri Polyakov, George Blake (Georgy Ivanovich Behar) and Harold 'Kim' Philby, on the Cold War, 1945-1989; Gordievsky's opinion of Penkovsky, executed by the Soviets for treason, Oct 1962; the influence of other defectors on Gordievsky's decision to spy for the West, 1973; Gordievsky's defection to the West, 1985; the background to the reasons why Soviet GRU Gen Dmitri Polyakov spied for the USA, 1961-[1981]; the treatment by the KGB of captured Soviet spies who worked for the USA, [1962-1989]; intelligence provided by the KGB and the GRU on the US development of 'smart' weapons and the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), [1983-1985]; the Aldrich Ames case, [1986]; Gordievsky's arrest and imprisonment by the KGB, May-Jul 1985; the role of intelligence gathering agencies in preventing war, [1953-1989]. 33pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Yakov Raskin, Latvian Jewish refusenik, relating to his attempt to emigrate with his family to Israel, his arrest by the KGB, and conditions of imprisonment in Riga (1970s). 16pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Mircea Dinescu, Romanian dissident and poet, relating to the conditions in Romania during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, President of the Romanian Socialist Republic, 1967-1989; Dinescu's background as a well known dissident in Romania, [1980]-1989; the non-existence of an organised resistance movement in Romania against Ceausescu's regime, 1989;the release of Dinescu from custody, [1989]; Dinescu's appearance on Romanian television to announce the Romanian revolution, [23] Dec 1989; the public celebrations at the overthrow of Ceausescu, and the subsequent outbreak of violence, Bucharest, Romania, 23-24 Dec 1989; the rapid rise to power of Ion Iliescu, leader of the National Salvation Front, Dec 1989; the execution of Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, 25 Dec 1989; the violence between the Romanian public and the secret police, the Securitate, Dec 1989; the role of television as a provider of information on the Romanian revolution to the population, Dec 1989; Ceausescu's escape by helicopter from the Central Committee building, Bucharest, and capture by members of the National Salvation Front, 23 Dec 1989. 17pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Susanna Pechuro, relating to social, economic and political conditions in the USSR, 1945-1946; the Victory Day celebrations, Moscow, USSR, 9 May 1945; Pechuro's arrest for being a member of an underground, pro-democracy organisation, [1948]; anti-Semitism in the USSR, 1948-1953; Pechuro's experience of imprisonment in the Soviet Gulag slave labour camps, [1948-1955]; Pechuro's interrogation by Viktor Abakumov, Soviet Minister of State Security, [1948]. 36pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Jose Fernandez, Director, military training, Cuba, relating to the bombing of Cuban aircraft and the Bay of Pigs incident, Cuba, Apr 1961.

Typescript transcript of interview with Boris Pokrovsky, Soviet artist and opera director, [1948-1996], relating to the censorship of art and the restrictions placed on the work of artists in the USSR, [1948-1953]; the artistic tastes of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, [1948]-1953; the ideological control on Pokrovsky's work by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR, [1948-1953]; the criticism of art in the USSR, [1948-1953]; Stalin's interference in artistic matters concerning the work of the Bolshoi Theatre company, Moscow, USSR, [1948-1953]; the Soviet anti-cosmopolitan campaign and its effect on art, [1950-1953]; the 'Doctor's plot', an anti-Semitic conspiracy against Jewish Doctors that had treated leading members of the Soviet Communist Party, 1950-1953.

Typescript transcript of interview with Yuri Pavlov, relating to, Soviet diplomat, Ambassador to Costa Rica and Chile, and Head of Soviet Foreign Ministry Latin American Division, 1987-1990, relating to Soviet foreign policy in relation to South American nations including the Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Grenada. 23pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Yuri Ivanovich Modin, [Soviet Diplomat], Soviet Embassy, London, UK, 1947-[1963], relating to the intelligence acquired by the NKVD (Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) on the US economic proposals for Europe that later became the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1947-1948; the attendance of (Skryabin) Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, at the Conference on European Economic Cooperation to discuss the Marshall Plan, Paris, France, Jul 1947; the implementation of the Marshall Plan, [1948-1950]; Soviet support for communist organisations in France, Italy and the UK, 1947-1949; Modin's relationship with British spies working for the USSR, including Guy (Francis de Moncy) Burgess, Anthony (Frederick) Blunt, Harold Adrian Russell 'Kim' Philby and Donald (Duart) Maclean, 1951-1963; the information passed by British spies to the USSR, 1951-1963; the transfer of intelligence to Moscow, USSR, and the provision of copies for Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, Molotov and Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, Commissar for Internal Affairs, 1951-[1953]; Modin's opinion on the characteristics of a good spy, 1996; Soviet knowledge of British and US wartime research into the atomic bomb, 1942-1945; Stalin's reaction to US President Harry S Truman's announcement at the Potsdam conference, codenamed TERMINAL, Jul-Aug 1945, of the TRINITY Atomic Test, the detonation of the first atomic bomb, Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, Alamogordo Desert, New Mexico, USA, 16 Jul 1945; the supply of intelligence to the USSR on the implementation of the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1947-1948; the impact of British spies working for the USSR on the Cold War, 1951-1963.

Typescript transcript of interview with Ambassador Winston Lord, US Foreign Service, Special Assistant to US President for National Security Affairs, 1970-1973, Director of Policy Planning Staff, US State Department, 1974-1977, US Ambassador to China, 1985-1989, relating to US relating to US relations with the People's Republic of China, Henry Kissinger's secret visit to China, 1971, and meetings between Richard Nixon, US President, Kissinger and Mao Zedong, Chairman Communist Party of China, 1935-1976. 43pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Ambassador Winston Lord, member of staff, Congressional Relations, Political, Military and Economic Affairs, US State Department, Washington DC, USA, 1961-1964, and Geneva, Switzerland, 1965-1967, member of staff, International Security Affairs, US Defense Department, 1967-1969, member of staff, US National Security Council, 1969-1973, Special Assistant to Dr Henry Alfred Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1970-1972, Director, Policy Planning Staff, US State Department, 1973-1977, and US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, 1985-1989, relating to Lord's opinion of Kissinger, 1970-1972; Kissinger's relationship with US President Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974; the reaction in the US State Department to Kissinger's close working relationship with President Nixon, 1969-1974; Nixon and Kissinger's policy towards the US involvement in Vietnam, 1969-1974; the US 'Vietnamisation' programme, the gradual withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam coupled with an increased role for the armed forces of the Republic of South Vietnam, Jun 1969-1973; the secret US bombing of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) sanctuaries in Cambodia, [1970]; the US invasion of Cambodia, May 1970; US preparations for the summit meeting between Nixon and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, May 1972; the North Vietnamese offensive across the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) and into the Republic of South Vietnam, Mar-Apr 1972; Operation LINEBACKER I, the US bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam, in response to the North Vietnamese offensive against South Vietnam, Mar-Apr 1972; the reaction of the USSR to the improved relations between the USA and China, 1972; the relationship between Nixon and Brezhnev, Moscow summit, USSR, May 1972; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975; Kissinger's negotiations with the North Vietnamese, Paris, France, and his official visit to Hanoi, North Vietnam, Oct 1972; the exclusion of representatives from the Republic of South Vietnam during Kissinger's peace talks with the North Vietnamese, Oct 1972; Operation LINEBACKER II, the USAF conventional bombing, by Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses, of Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam, Dec 1972; the Watergate scandal, Washington DC, USA, 1972-1974; Lord's discovery that his telephone had been bugged during the Watergate scandal, 1972-1974; the speech made by Kissinger on the connection between US foreign policy and morality, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Apr 1975; the inclusion of the human rights clause in the Helsinki accords, Jul-Aug 1975; the Middle East crisis over the Yom Kippur War, Oct 1973; the relationship between Kissinger and Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, during the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), 1969-1972; the USA's contribution to the continuance of the Cold War, 1945-1990; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Lord's opinion that the USA was the victor of the Cold War, 1990. 60pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Wayne Smith, US diplomat, Havana, Cuba, 1958-1960, 1979-1982, relating to the political situation in Cuba and US Cuban relations during the 1960s, including the Bay of Pigs incident, Apr 1961, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962. 17pp