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Typescript transcript of interview with Nathaniel Davis, US diplomat, Ambassador to Guatemala, 1968-1971, and Chile, 1971-1973, relating to his experiences in Guatemala and Chile; the attitude of Richard Nixon, US President, 1969-1974, and Henry Alfred Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1969-1972 and Secretary of State 1973-1977, to the threat of communist governments taking power South American nations. 17pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Morton Abramowitz, US diplomat, and Director Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US State Department, 1985-1989, relating to US policy concerning the war in Afghanistan, 1979-1989, under the administration of US President Ronald Reagan, including US provision of military aid to anti-communist Mujahedin forces in Afghanistan; the role of Pakistan as a thoroughfare for military aid; US response to Soviet attempts to withdraw from the conflict. 10pp

Typescript transcript of interview with US Ambassador Marshall Green, US diplomat, Consul General to Hong Kong, 1961-1963, Ambassador to Indonesia, 1965-1969, relating to US foreign policy on East Asia during the 1950s-1970s, including the US China, relationships between US Presidents and their Secretaries of State, Chinese Soviet relations, and the policies of Richard Nixon, US President 1969-1974, in relation to China. 69pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Ambassador Lucius Battle, US diplomat, relating to the US involvement in the Korean War, 1950-1953 and relations between the US, China and the Soviet Union. 38pp

Typescript transcript of interview with John Paton Davies, China Office, US State Department, [1942]-1954, relating to the reaction in the USA to the declaration of the People's Republic of China, 1 Oct 1949; the relationship between the USA and Nationalist China, [1942-1949]; the popular opinion in the USA that China had been 'lost', 1949; the relationship between US officials and the communists in China during the war against Japan and the Chinese Civil War, 1942-1949; Davies' opinion of Gen Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China, 1928-1949, and President of Taiwan, 1950-1975; US support for Chiang Kai-shek during the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949; US fears of Soviet involvement in the Chinese revolution, 1945-1949; US President Harry S Truman's policy towards Taiwan, 1950-1953; the impact of the Korean War on US-Chinese relations, 1950-1953; the Chinese intervention in the Korean War, Oct 1950; the advance of UN forces to the Yalu River, Korea, Sep-Nov 1950; the importance of US Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy in shaping US public opinion and policy against China, 1949-1954; the 'loss of China' as an issue during the US Presidential election, Nov 1952; the visit to Taiwan by US Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, [1958]; Davies' opinion of Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Chou En-Lai (Zhou Enlai), 1949-1954; Chairman Mao's desire to achieve recognition from the USA, 1949-1972. 26pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Ambassador John Dimitri Negroponte, Second Secretary, US State Department, Saigon, Republic of South Vietnam, 1964-1968, Liaison Officer between the US Delegation and the North Vietnamese Delegation, Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam, France, May 1968-Aug 1969, Head of Vietnam Office, US National Security Council Staff, Sep 1970-Feb 1973, US Ambassador to Honduras, 1981-1985, and to Mexico, 1989-[1993], relating to the official peace talks on Vietnam, Paris, France, May 1968-Aug 1969, and the secret negotiations between North Vietnamese chief negotiator Le Duc Tho and US National Security Adviser Dr Henry Alfred Kissinger, Feb 1970-Jan 1973; the progress made during the secret peace negotiations, 1970-1973; the exclusion of an official US peace delegation from the negotiations, 1970-1973; the importance in achieving a total US withdrawal from Vietnam as quickly as possible, 1968-1973; the influence of the US Presidential election on the peace negotiations, 1972; the preparation of the draft peace agreement between North Vietnam and the USA, 8-11 Oct 1972; the reaction of Gen Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam, to the draft peace agreement, Oct 1972; the signing of the Paris Peace Accords on Vietnam, Jan 1973; Operation LINEBACKER II, the USAF conventional bombing by Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses of Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam, Dec 1972; speculation on whether the USA pressured the Republic of South Vietnam into agreeing to the peace settlement, Jan 1973; the influence of the Watergate scandal on the Vietnamese peace process, 1972-1973; the North Vietnamese offensive across the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) and into the Republic of South Vietnam, Mar-Apr 1972; the summit meeting between US President Richard Milhous Nixon and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, May 1972; Operation LINEBACKER I, the US bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam, in response to the North Vietnamese offensive against the Republic of South Vietnam, Mar-Apr 1972; the possibility of the cancellation of the Moscow summit because of the conflict in Vietnam, May 1972; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975; the achievements in US foreign policy under Nixon and Kissinger, 1969-1974; the character and leadership of Soviet First Secretary Brezhnev, 1964-1982. 19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Ambassador John Dimitri Negroponte, US diplomat, US National Security Council Staff, Sep 1970-Feb 1973, US Ambassador to Honduras, 1981-1985, and to Mexico, 1989-[1993], relating to US foreign policy towards south and central American nations including Cuba, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Grenada, during the term of office of James Earl Carter, US President, 1977-1981, and Ronald Reagan, US President, 1981-1989. 17pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Jeane Duane Jordan Kirkpatrick, political scientist and diplomat, US Representative to the United Nations, 1981-1985; White House cabinet member, 1981-1985, relating to the attitudes of the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), a lobby group concerned with the foreign and national security policies of the US; the failure of US détente policy to prevent the increase of Soviet military power; and the policies of the US Government concerning the Soviet Union during the term of office of James Earl Carter, US President 1977-1981 and Ronald Reagan, US President 1981-1989. 32pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Hugh Lunghi, [US Diplomat], Moscow, USSR, Jun 1943-[1946], relating to the atmosphere and conditions in the USSR, 1943; the Allied Teheran conference, codenamed EUREKA, to co-ordinate strategy between the USSR, the USA and the UK, Teheran, Iran, 28 Nov-1 Dec 1943; the non-intervention of Soviet forces during the Second Warsaw Rising, Poland, Aug 1944; the Allied Yalta conference, codenamed ARGONAUT, attended by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin and Prime Minister Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Yalta, Crimea, USSR, 4-11 Feb 1945; discussions at the Yalta conference on the future of eastern and central Europe, Feb 1945; the character and leadership of Soviet President Stalin, 1945; Victory Day, Moscow, 9 May 1945; the Soviet Victory Parade, Moscow, Jun 1945; the Allied Potsdam conference, codenamed TERMINAL, between the leaders of the USSR, USA and UK, Potsdam, Germany, 17 Jul-2 Aug 1945; the replacement of Prime Minister Churchill by Rt Hon Clement Richard Attlee, Jul 1945. 62pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Han Pyo-Wook [Philip Han], Republic of Korea (South Korea) diplomat based in Washington, 1949-1960, relating to the diplomatic response to the invasion of South Korea, by forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) 25 Jun 1950, including his meetings with Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary of State for Far East, Korean Ambassador Chang Myon (John M Chang), Harry S Truman, US President, 1945-1953, and Dean Acheson, US Secretary of State, 1949-1953, regarding South Korean requests for assistance. Also comments on the UN Security Council deliberations and resolution, Jun 1950. 21pp

Typescript transcript of interview with George Crews McGhee, Co-ordinator for aid to Greece and Turkey, US State Department, 1947-1949, Special Assistant to Dean Gooderham Acheson, US Secretary of State, 1949, US Ambassador, Chief American Mission for Aid to Turkey, 1951-1953, Consultant, US National Security Council, 1958-1959, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 1961-1963, and US Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, 1963-1968, relating to the development of US policy on aid to Greece and Turkey, Jan-Feb 1947, and the significance of the provision of US military and economic aid for any country threatened by Communism, announced by Harry S Truman, US President, 1945-1953, in a speech to Congress, Mar 1947; the development of the Marshall Plan for European reconstruction, 1948; the rebuilding of the Pireaus Harbour and Corinth Canal, Greece (1948); communist perception of the Marshall Plan; the visit of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, US President, 1961-1963, to Germany and Berlin, Jun 1963, and the German admiration for him; McGhee's opinion of the US policy on Vietnam and the decision to send in US troops, 1965; and his opinion on the causes of the cold war. 44pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Edward Mulcahy, US diplomat, Ambassador to the Republic of Chad, 1972-1974, and Tunisia, 1976-1979, relating to US policy regarding the conflict in Angola, 1974-1976; the provision of covert support for the Front for the National Liberation of Angola (FNLA) headed by Holden Roberto; US relations with South African forces in Angola; and the role of the Cuban forces in Angola. 52pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Charles Dunbar, Charge d'Affairs, US Mission to Afghanistan, 1981-1983, and 1985-1988, relating to US policy on the war Afghanistan, 1979-1989, including US attitude to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan; US provision of US military aid to anti-communist Mujahedin forces in Afghanistan; US relations with Pakistan; and US attitude to the Soviet moves towards withdrawal from Afghanistan.17pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Carlos Lechuga, Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations, [1960s], relating to South American communist movements including the Cuban revolution; the role of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Argentinian communist revolutionary and Cuban Minister for Industries, [1959-1962]; the government of Salvador Allende (Gossens), President of Chile, 1970-1973; Cuban relations with the Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua [1978-1981]; and US involvement in the conflict in Grenada, 1983. 15pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Boris Vardonovich Putilin, [Soviet diplomat, Angola, 1975-1976], relating to the Soviet reasons for involvement in Angola, 1975-1976; the socialist beliefs of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), 1975-1976; the distribution of Soviet military aid to Angola through Zambia and the Congo, 1975-1976; the celebrations in Luanda to celebrate Angola's independence from Portuguese rule, 10 Nov 1975; the acknowledgement of the MPLA as the legitimate Angolan government by the Organisation of African Unity, Feb 1976; Cuban involvement in Angola, 1975-1976; US aid for the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA), (1975-1976); the influence of third world conflicts on the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975; the strategic importance of Soviet involvement in Africa, [1975-1980]; the fragility of the peace process in Angola, the Alvor accords, (1974); the Soviet supply of Katyusha rockets to Angola, [1976]; the Soviet reaction to incursions into Angola by Zairean and South African forces in support of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), [1976]; South African operations in Angola against the South West African People's Organisation for Namibia (SWAPO), 1966-1988; Soviet aid to the MPLA and to SWAPO, 1976-1988; the spread of Soviet inspired Communism in Africa, [1970-1989]; the Soviet decision not to deploy the Red Army to Angola, 1975-1976; the influence of Angola on future Soviet policy in Africa, 1976; the waning of Soviet influence in the Middle East, [1973-1980]; the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sponsorship of mercenaries to fight for the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) in Angola, 1975-1976. 33pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1949-1952, and Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, relating to US Soviet relation during the term of office of James Earl Carter, US President, 1977-1981, including negotiations about US and Soviet missile deployment; the summit meeting between Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, and Carter, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1979; US reaction to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, 1979; Soviet involvement in the conflict in the Middle East, and negotiation of the ceasefire between Israel and Egypt 1973. 42pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1949-1952, and Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, relating to Soviet US relations including the visit of Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party, USSR, 1964-1982, to the US, 1969; the visits of Richard Nixon, US President 1969-1974, to Moscow, 1972 and 1974; the Soviet perspective on the Watergate scandal, 1972-1974; and the Soviet policy on Jewish emigration. 40pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Ambassador Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1949-1952, and Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, relating to Soviet relations with the US during the 1980s including their reaction to the election of Ronald Regan as US President, 1981; circumstances surrounding the shooting down of Korean Air Lines flight 007, over Soviet airspace, Aug 1983; reforms in the Soviet Union introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, and their impact on the end of the cold war; and the Soviet policy on Afghanistan. 23pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1949-1952, and Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, relating to the reaction in the USSR to the Cuban revolution and to the socialist government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), 1959-1961; the decision by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, to provide Soviet economic and military aid to Cuba, [1961]; the strategic importance of Cuba to the USSR, 1961-1962; Soviet fears of a US invasion of Cuba, 1961-1962; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; the Soviet supply of military aid to 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 television broadcast by US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy to the US public announcing the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba, 22 Oct 1962; the US naval blockade of Cuba, 1962; Dobrynin's opinion on not being informed of the Soviet deployment of missiles to Cuba, 1962; the meetings between Dobrynin and Robert Francis Kennedy, US Attorney General, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 23 and 27 Oct 1962; the US decision to agree to the withdrawal of Chrysler Jupiter SM-78 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) based in Turkey, Oct 1962; Dobrynin's opinion on how close the USA and the USSR came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Dobrynin's opinion of the leadership and characters of US President Kennedy and Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the relationship between Dobrynin and Robert Kennedy, Oct 1962; the Soviet opinion of the rapprochement between the USA and the People's Republic of China, 1969-1972; the reaction in the USSR to the visit to China by US President Richard Milhous Nixon, Feb 1972. 40pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1949-1952, and Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, relating to US Soviet relations including the visit of Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of Communist Party, USSR 1953-1964 to the US, 1959, for talks with Dwight L Eisenhower, US President 1953-1961; the summit meeting between Khrushchev and Eisenhower, Paris, France, May 1960; the summit meeting between Khrushchev and US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1961; Soviet attitude to US involvement in the Vietnam conflict 1961-1975. 43pp