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Typescript transcript of interview with Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1949-1952, and Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, relating to the Soviet reaction to the detonation of the first Chinese atomic bomb, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Oct 1964; the Soviet leadership's relationship with Mao Zedong, Chairman of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; communications between the Soviet Embassy, Washington DC, USA, and the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab nations of Egypt, Jordan and Syria, 5-10 Jun 1967; the summit meeting between US President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA, Jun 1967; the US nuclear doctrines of massive retaliation, 1954-1960, mutually assured destruction (MAD), 1967, counterforce, 1962, and flexible response, 1961; the Soviet development of an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, [1968-1969]; the Soviet development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRV), [1970-1972]; US military involvement in the Vietnam War, 1965-1975; the Soviet reaction to the election of Richard Milhous Nixon as US President, Nov 1968; the character of US President Nixon, 1969-1974; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks I (SALT I), 1969-1972; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975; the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Jul 1968; the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Aug 1963; the Soviet reaction to the assassination of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Nov 1963; the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt and Syria, Oct 1973; covert negotiations on Strategic Arms Limitation between Dobrynin and Dr Henry (Alfred) Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1969-1972. 38pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Aleksandr Feklisov, [Soviet Diplomat], Washington DC, USA, 1962, relating to Feklisov's reaction to 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; Feklisov's first meeting with John A Scali, Diplomatic Correspondent for ABC News, Washington DC, USA, 22 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; Feklisov's second meeting with Scali, 26 Oct 1962; US fears of a Soviet invasion of West Berlin, Germany, Oct 1962; Feklisov's meeting with Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the USA, and Robert Francis Kennedy, US Attorney General, Soviet Embassy, Washington DC, USA, 27 Oct 1962; Feklisov's opinion of the Soviet decision to withdraw the missiles from Cuba, Oct 1962. 20pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Ambassador Aleksandr Ivanovich Alekseyev, Soviet Counsellor, Havana, Cuba, 1960-1962, and Ambassador to Cuba, 1962-1967, relating to the Soviet relationship with the Cuban government of President Fulgencio Batistá (y Zaldivar), 1954-1958; the Cuban revolution, 1956-Jan 1959; Alekseyev's opinion of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), Prime Minister of Cuba, and of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Argentinian communist revolutionary and Cuban Minister for Industries, [1959-1962]; the export of sugar from Cuba to the USSR, 1960; Castro's request for Soviet military aid, Apr 1960; Cuban fears of a US invasion of Cuba, 1960-1962; Operation MONGOOSE, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plan to destabilise Cuba and assassinate Castro, 1960; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; the Soviet decision to deploy SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; Alekseyev's opinion of the decision by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, to deploy Soviet missiles in 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; Soviet fears of a US invasion of Cuba, 27-28 Oct 1962; the Soviet decision to withdraw the missiles from Cuba and failure to consult Castro, Oct 1962. 49pp

Typescript transcript of Richard B (Dick) Cheney, US Secretary of Defense, 1989-1993, being interviewed by Richard Perle, 4 Dec 1991, in which he comments on events from Aug 1990 leading up to the Gulf War including Saudi Arabia's decision to allow US armed forces in their territory after Cheney's meeting with King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, 6 Aug 1990; meeting with Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt; communications with Soviet government concerning the UN Resolutions; US President George H W Bush's meeting with Sheikh Saad Al Abdullah Al Salim Al Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, 28 Sep 1990; the press conference following James Baker, US Secretary of State, and Tariq Aziz, Iraq Foreign Minister, 1983-1991, meeting in Geneva, 9 Jan 1991; and the beginning of the air attack on Iraq, 16 Jan 1991. Also describes the situation of Israel during the hostilities, and the role of the US Congress in the decision to send US forces into armed combat. 16pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Peter Földes, Hungarian, relating to his involvement in the demonstration that initiated the Hungarian uprising, Oct 1956. 16pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Nikolai Detinov, Soviet Defence Ministry, relating to negotiations between the Soviet Union and the US concerning arms limitation, and the deployment to of missiles within Europe during the 1970s, including the summit meeting between Carter and Brezhnev, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1979; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), 1974-1979; the Soviet response to US pressure to comply with the Helsinki Final Act, concerning protection of human rights. 27pp

Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Yasser Abed Rabbo, Culture and Arts Minister of the Palestinian National Authority 1994-2003, describing the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David, Maryland, USA, Jul 2000; the visit of Gen Colin Powell, US Secretary of State, 2000-2005, to Israel, 2002; talks with Michael Abraham Levy, Baron of Mill Hill, the British Prime Minister’s personal envoy to the Middle East, 2002-2007; the death of Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority 1994-2004, Nov 2004.

Typescript transcript of interview with Valery Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut, relating to his career as a cosmonaut and participation in the first international space operation the Apollo Soyuz Test Project, Jun 1975. 15pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Maj Gherman Stepanovich Titov, the second Soviet Cosmonaut, relating to the Soviet selection and training of the first Cosmonauts, 1960-1961; the character of Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin, the first Soviet Cosmonaut, 1960-1961; Gagarin's space flight, Apr 1961; launch of Soviet spacecraft Vostok II, with Titov on board, 6 Aug 1961; the US/Soviet space race, 1957-1969; the US Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, Jul 1969; the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Ukraine, USSR, 25-26 -Apr 1986. 10pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Oscar Manuel Sobalvaro ('Comandante Ruben'), Chief of Staff, Nicaraguan Contra Army, relating to the opposition to the government of Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in Nicaragua, 1979-1985, the activities of the Anti-Sandinista People's Militias (MILPAS); and aid from the US to the Contra forces. 10pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Heinz Homuth, relating to the Stalinallee construction project, East Berlin, 1952-1953; the East Berlin uprising, 17 Jun 1953; the objectives of the East Berlin uprising, 1953. 12pp

Music 5. John Cage: typescript of Mottram 1972 interview with John Cage, with numerous manuscript corrections; photocopy typescript of a different version of the same interview; copy of magazine Spanner 1 (1974) publishing the second version of the interview above; Mottram typescript notes for the Cage interview, opening 'Silence -1961-a sound...'; typescript essay headed 'Silence'; manuscript and typescript essay headed 'John Cage: Silence and after'; note on John Cage, headed 'for The Independent', kept with Cage's obituary in The Independent, 14 Aug 1992; Mottram manuscript and typescript notes on Cage and his work and on secondary sources; copy of article 'Milton Babbitt and John Cage' by Eric Salzman from Stereo Review (no publications details); information folder titled Cage at 70, produced for the Almeida Festival, London, 1982; John Cage: etchings 1978-1982 (Point Press, Oakland, California, 1982); unsourced photocopy catalogue of Cage's work; programme for concert by John Cage and David Tudor, Royal Albert Hall, London, 22 May 1972; photocopy of article 'John Cage & Morton Feldman' from Circuit 4 (1967)

Typescript transcript of interview with Jose Manuel Fortuny Arana, Secretary General of Communist Party of Guatemala, [Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo] 1950, relating to the policies of the government of Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala 1951-1954; the expropriation of land owned by the US based United Fruit Company; the US response to Guatemalan agrarian reform; purchase of armaments from Czechoslovakia; and the fall of the Arbenz government. 19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Wolfgang Leonhard, member of the German Communist Party working with Walther Ulbricht to establish a communist controlled administration in Soviet occupied Berlin, 1945-47, instructor at the Academy of the Socialist Unity Party Karl Marx, Zehlendorf, 1947-1949, worked for International Broadcasting of Radio Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1949, Professor of History at Yale University, 1966-1987, relating to Leonhard's employment as a radio announcer on Radio Broadcast, National Committee Free Germany, a Moscow based radio station pretending to be a German opposition, anti-Nazi radio station, 1944-1945; Leonhard's ten years in the USSR, 1935-1945; the hope amongst the population of Moscow, USSR, that the Soviet regime would become more liberal after the defeat of Germany, 1944-1945; Leonhard's inclusion in the 'Ulbricht group', the founder members of the German Socialist Unity Party, 1945; Leonhard's journey from Moscow to Berlin, Apr-May 1945; the destruction and the living conditions in Berlin, 1945; the establishment of a new governing administration in Berlin, with the inclusion of democratic party candidates but with communists in key positions, 1945; the creation of a new German Communist Party, the Socialist Unity Party, within a democratic framework, 1945-1946; the use of pro-communist propaganda in Berlin, 1945-1946; the arrival of the Western Allies in Berlin, Jul 1945; the brutal behaviour of Red Army troops towards German civilians in Berlin, 1945; the removal of industrial plant and equipment by the Soviets from occupied Germany as war reparations, 1945; the de-nazification programme employed by the Western Allies in occupied Germany, 1945-1946; the employment of former Nazis as informers for the NKVD (Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) in the Soviet zone of occupation, Germany, 1945-1946; the operations of the NKVD in Berlin, Germany, 1945-1946; the impact of the use, by the USAAF (US Army Air Force), of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 6 and 9 Aug 1945, on relations between the USSR and the Western Allies, 1945; the rejection of the Marshall Plan by the USSR, [Aug] 1947; the foundation of the German Socialist Unity Party, Apr 1946; the process of unification between the German Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party, Oct 1945-Apr 1946; the exclusion and removal of Social Democrats opposed to unification with the Communists, 1945-1946; the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949; the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the Cominform (Communist Information Bureau), an organisation to co-ordinate Communist Party activities throughout Europe, Jun 1948; the ejection of democratic councillors from the Berlin City Council by Communist activists, 6 Sep 1948; Leonhard's opinion of Josip 'Broz' Tito, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, 1945-1953, and President, 1953-1980; Leonhard's decision to escape from the Soviet zone of Germany and his journey to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Mar 1949; the arrests and trials in the East German Socialist Unity Party for anti-Soviet activity, 1949; the character and leadership of Walther Ulbricht, Secretary of the East German Socialist Unity Party, 1950-1971; Leonhard's experience and opinion of the communist system in Yugoslavia, 1949-1970; Leonhard's decision to settle in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1950; the threat to Stalinism posed by Tito's rule in Yugoslavia, 1948-1953; the construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961. 53pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Su Shaozhi, (member of the Chinese Communist Party), relating to the 'golden age' of Sino-Soviet relations, 1950-1956; the employment of Soviet experts, advisers and technicians in China, 1950-1959; the deterioration in relations between the USSR and the People's Republic of China, 1956-1959; the Chinese reaction to the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; Khrushchev's visit to China, Oct 1959; speculation on the possibility of China becoming a satellite of the USSR, [1953-1959]; Soviet opposition to the personality cult of Chairman Mao Zedong, 1956-1959; the Chinese nuclear development programme, [1958]-1964; the detonation of the first Chinese atomic bomb, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Oct 1964; the breakdown in relations between the USSR and the People's Republic of China, 1959; Su Shaozhi's reaction to the rapprochement between the USA and the People's Republic of China, 1972-1979; Chairman Mao's foreign and domestic policies, 1949-1976; the rivalry between Mao and Chou En-Lai (Zhou Enlai), Premier of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976; relations between the Chinese government and the Soviet regime of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1964-1982, especially during the Cultural Revolution, the reassertion of Maoist doctrines in China, 1965-1968. 14pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Giuseppe Mainardi, Italian communist, relating to social and economic hardship in post-war Turin, Italy, 1945-1947; the anti-Fascist industrial unrest in Turin, 1943; the Italian election campaign, Apr 1948; the excommunication, by Pope Pius XII, of Roman Catholic members of the Italian Communist Party, [Jun] 1949; the election victory of the Italian Christian Democrats over the left wing Popular Front, Apr 1948; the dismissal of members of the Italian Communist Party from the FIAT factories, Turin, Italy, 1949-1959; the impact of the Marshall Plan in Italy, 1948-[1959]. 11pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Miklos Jakes, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 1987-1989, relating to the political change in Czechoslovakia during 1989, including the impact of changing Soviet policy, the influx of refugees from German Democratic Republic (GDR) to the Federal Republic of Germany Embassy (FRG) in Prague, the opening of the Hungarian borders, Sep 1989, anti-government demonstrations, Nov 1989, and the resignation of the government, Nov 1989. 17pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Jorges Risquet, member of Central Committee of Communist Party of Cuba, relating to the role of the Cuban government in assisting the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in Angola, during the Angolan civil war, 1975. 19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Jorges Risquet, member of Central Committee of Communist Party of Cuba, relating to the Cuban revolution, 1959; the US response to the revolution, the Bay of Pigs incident, Apr 1961, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962. 52pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Jarmila Potùèkova, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, [1948]-1951, and member of the Czech Control Party Commission, [1948]-1951, relating to Potùèkova's arrest, on the same day as the arrest of Rudolf Slánský, the Jewish Vice Premier of Czechoslovakia, 1951; Potùèkova's imprisonment and interrogation, Nov 1951-Jun 1952; Potùèkova's release from prison, 1960; Potùèkova's opinion of the Czech Communist Party, 1951-1960; Potùèkova's discovery on her release from prison, of the deaths, in 1953, of Klement Gottwald, Czech Prime Minister, and of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 1960; the execution of Slánský, 2 Dec 1951; the role of NKVD (Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) advisers in Potùèkova's arrest, interrogation and imprisonment, 1951-1960; Potùèkova's belief that the arrests, imprisonment and execution of leading members of the Czech Communist Party was inspired by Soviet anti-Semitism and fears of espionage, 1951.