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Typescript transcript of interview with Joe Bulik, Chief of Soviet Operations, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1947-relating to Soviet double agent Oleg Penkovsky, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962. 43pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Jeanne Vertefeuille, soviet counterintelligence officer, Directorate of Operations, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), [1954-1993] relating to the role and activities of the CIA, during the Cold War, and the uncovering of the counterespionage operations of Aldrich Ames. 29pp

Typescript transcript of interview with E Howard Hunt, US Central Intelligence Agency espionage officer, relating to US opposition to communist movements in South America including the US backed operation to overthrow of the government Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala 1951-1954, and the Bay of Pigs operation, Cuba, Apr 1961. 24pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Gustavo Villoldo, Cuban exile, US Army and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, relating to his work against the internationalist activities of the Cuban President Fidel Castro, including training of Cuban exiles involved in the Bay of Pigs incident, and operations in Dominican Republic, Angola, Ethiopia, Bolivia and Nicaragua; and the capture and execution of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Argentinian communist revolutionary and Cuban Minister for Industries, [1959-19621] in Bolivia, 1967. 18pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Frank Anderson, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, and chief of the CIA's Afghan Task Force 1987-1989, relating to relating to US policy concerning the war Afghanistan, 1979-1989, including 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. 23pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Duane Ramsdell ('Dewey') Clarridge, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, and Chief of CIA Latin American Division, 1981-1984, relating to US foreign policy relating to South America including the Monroe Doctrine; strategic considerations for US defence; funding of CIA operations in South America; US relations with El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada; and attitudes to Soviet and Cuban influence in South America. 19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Donald Jameson, branch chief, Soviet division of Directorate of Operations, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), [1950s] relating to the establishment of the CIA and its operations during the Cold War, including infiltration techniques, counterespionage, and its role during the Korean War, 1950-1953. 44pp

Typescript transcript of interview with David Murphy, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), East European Division, relating to the intelligence operations of the CIA in Berlin 1947 to 1960s, including the activities of the Soviet security service and control of the citizens; the Berlin tunnel operation to monitor Soviet communications (1954-1955); the counterespionage activities of Kim Philby, George Blake, Dmitri Polyakov, and Aldrich Ames; and the activities of the Soviet security service (KGB). 53pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Charles Cogan, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer and Chief of Near East Operations and head of covert operation in Afghanistan, relating to US policy on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1979 and the ensuing war, 1979-1989, including US concern about the destabilisation of the region following the fall of the Shah of Iran, 1979; 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. 18pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Aldrich Hazen ('Rick') Ames, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer convicted of selling US secrets to the Soviet Union, relating to his career in the CIA and his activities as double agent for the Soviet Union. 53pp

Typescript transcript of interview with S Peter Karlow, Chief of Psychological Operations, Eastern Europe, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), [1956], relating to CIA operations in eastern Europe, 1947-1956; the Soviet intervention in Hungary, Nov 1956; CIA and other US operations to support the Hungarian uprising, 1956; the Suez crisis, 1956; the importance of Radio Free Europe broadcasts, Hungary, 1956; the role of the CIA during the Cold War, 1947-1990. 27pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Prof Melvin Goodman, senior analyst of Soviet affairs, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1966-1986, relating to the operation of the CIA throughout the Cold War. 46pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Frank Snepp, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Chief Strategy Analyst, Republic of South Vietnam, 1969-1975, relating to the experience of living in Saigon during the US involvement in Vietnam, 1969-1975; the impact of the Vietnam War in the Vietnamese countryside and in Saigon, 1969-1975; the security of US staff in the US Embassy, Saigon, Republic of South Vietnam, 1969-1975; the evacuation of Nguyen Van Thieu, President of the Republic of South Vietnam, from Saigon to Taiwan, Apr 1975; Snepp's opinion of Nha Duc Hoang, President Thieu's closest adviser, 1969-1975; Thieu's lack of information on the anti-Vietnam War sentiment in the USA, 1969-1975; Snepp's opinion of Graham Anderson Martin, US Ambassador to the Republic of South Vietnam, [1973-1975]; Ambassador Martin's role in the US withdrawal from Vietnam, 1973-1975; the capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), Apr 1975; the abandonment by the USA of South Vietnamese citizens who aided the US military and intelligence agencies during the Vietnam War, Apr 1975; the final helicopter evacuation from the US Embassy, Saigon, Apr 1975; the failure by the CIA to destroy or remove classified documents and intelligence information during the final US withdrawal and evacuation from Saigon, Apr 1975; the publication of Decent interval: an insider's account of Saigon's indecent end, told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam, Frank Snepp (Random House, New York, USA, 1977). 29pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Samuel Halpern, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent, relating to role of the CIA in the US government covert plan to eliminate Fidel Castro, Premier of Cuba, 1959-1976, including the Bay of Pigs incident, Apr 1961, CIA's Operation Mongoose, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962. 29pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Mikhail Kudriavtsev, Soviet émigré parachuted into Russia to spy for the CIA, 1953, relating to his CIA training, aims of their mission, arrival in the Byerlorus, USSR, and capture by the KGB, interrogation, propaganda press conferences, 1953, 1957. 24pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Mark W Wyatt, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1947-1948, relating to the CIA's covert operation of assistance to the Christian Democrat, Social Democrat, Republican and Liberal parties in Italian election campaign, Apr 1948, in order prevent a Communist Party victory, including the support of George C Marshall, US Secretary of State, 1947-1949; the authorisation of the operation by the US National Security Council; the development of the fledgling CIA; US funding for democratic parties in Italy (1948); Soviet funding for Communist Party activities in Italy, (1948); the influence of Italian communists in the Italian labour force; the implementation of the Marshall Plan for European reconstruction, in Italy. 42pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Joshua Chance, member of the Chinese Volunteer force, relating to the involvement of the Chinese Volunteers in the Korean War, 1950-1953. 22pp

Transcripts of filmed interview with Carl (Ned) Creswell, Division Artillery Chaplain, US Army, describing his role as an Army Chaplain; his response to Hugh Thompson's report of the massacre at My Lai, Vietnam, 16 Mar 1968; his response to the Peers Inquiry recommendation of his court martial and the effect of the My Lai incident on individual and national attitudes. 47pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), 1974-1982. relating to opposition to the deployment of medium range missile in the FRG (West Germany); negotiations with James Earl Carter, US President, 1977-1981; the Four Powers Summit at Guadeloupe, 1979 and the development of NATO's Twin Track Policy on missile deployment; negotiations between US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik, Iceland, 1986; and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nov 1989.19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Rt Hon Cecil (Edward) Parkinson, British Paymaster General, 1981-1983, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1982-1983, and Chairman of the Conservative Party, 1981-1983, relating to the British government response to Argentina's invasion of the Falkland islands, including, the House of Commons Debate of the response 3 Apr 1982; reaction of government members to news of the invasion and discussions at the meeting of the '1922 Committee'; the resignation of Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, Sixth Baron Carrington (Lord Carrington), as Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (3 Apr 1982) and appointment of Rt Hon Francis Leslie Pym as his successor; his membership of the Cabinet Subcommittee overseeing the British military operation against Argentina; the talks between Rt Hon Margaret Hilda Thatcher, British Prime Minster, 1979-1990, and Alexander Haig, US Secretary of State, 1981-1982, (12-13 Apr 1982); British policy of dual response, military and diplomatic, to the invasion; and the visit of Pym to Washington for talks with US officials (22-23 Apr 1982). 32pp