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Typescript transcript of interview with Yevgeni Khrushchev, Soviet Army officer, relating to his role in the department of Special Propaganda in the Soviet Army occupying Afghanistan [1983], including his training and experiences during the war in Afghanistan, 1979-1989, and the psychological impact of the war on Soviet soldiers there. 19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Tong Viet Duong, former Viet Minh and NVA (North Vietnamese Army) officer, 1945-[1975], and NVA adviser to the Viet Cong, South Vietnam, [1963-1975], relating to Duong's service with the Viet Cong, South Vietnam, 1966; the Tet offensive, Jan-Feb 1968; the Viet Cong and NVA attack on the US Embassy, Saigon, during the Tet offensive, Jan 1968; the capture of Saigon by the NVA, Apr 1975. 16pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Luibov Kozinchenko, Red Army Medical Sanitary Instructor and Nurse, 1941-1945; relating to the Red Army's advance through the USSR and Eastern Europe, 1942-1945; the meeting between the Red Army and the US Army, Torgau, river Elbe, Germany, 25 Apr 1945; the devastation in the formerly German occupied areas of the USSR, 1945-1946. 26pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Karl Mautner, former US Army intelligence officer, and liaison officer for the Berlin US military government, 1947-1948, relating to intelligence provided by German refugees from eastern Europe, 1945; German's attitude to Soviet occupying forces, and Soviet dismantling German industrial plant for removal to the Soviet Union as reparations in kind. 1945-46; Soviet pressure on German political parties, and the activities of the city government in Berlin, including the Ella Barowsky, German Social Democratic Party member of Berlin City Council (Stadt Verordneten Versammlung), 1946-1950, Louise Schroeder, German Social Democrat and Deputy Lord Mayor, and Acting Lord Mayor, Berlin, 1947, Ferdinand Friedensburg, Christian Democratic Union, Acting Mayor, Berlin, (1948) and Ernst Reuter, Social Democrat Mayor of Berlin 1948-1953; conditions in West Berlin during the Soviet blockade, demonstration rallies, 6 Jun [1948] and 9 Sep 1948; and the impact in Berlin of the West German currency reforms, 1948. 35pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Wolfgang Schade, German Democratic Republic (GDR) National Defence Army conscript, 1989, relating to the preparation of the army in response to the anti-government demonstrations in Leipzig, Oct-Nov 1989, including the isolation of soldiers from information about the demonstrations. 8pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Nikolai Movchan, Soviet Army conscript 1982, relating to his experience in the war in Afghanistan [1979-1989]. 8pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Ivor Kovalchuk, Soviet Army conscript, relating to his experience in the fighting in Afghanistan [1979-1989]. 14pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Rennie Davis, US Anti-War movement leader, National director of the community organizing program of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and member of the 'Chicago Eight', eight men who were tried for conspiracy to incite riot, 1969-1970, relating to his involvement with the student protest movement of the 1960s, including the anti-government demonstration at the Democrat National Convention, Chicago, Aug 1968, his arrest and trial, the anti-war movement, his visit to Hanoi, Democratic People's Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), and US popular culture during the 1960s. 56pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Mary Sue Planck, San Francisco hippie, relating to youth culture in the US during the 1960s and 1970s, including drug taking, anti-war movement, sexual liberation and popular music. 19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Pat Arrowsmith, an organiser of the first march from London to the British nuclear research site at Aldermaston, Berkshire, 1958, relating to 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; US anti-Soviet propaganda, 1945-1954; the US thermonuclear tests, Operation CASTLE, Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, Mar 1954; the radioactive contamination of the Japanese fishing vessel FUKURYU MARU (LUCKY DRAGON) and its crew, from nuclear fallout from the Operation CASTLE US thermonuclear tests, Pacific Ocean, Mar 1954; the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War, [1958]; the first march from London to the British nuclear research site at Aldermaston, Berkshire, 1958, the foundation of the Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Tests, [1957]; the foundation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 1958; the creation of anti-nuclear movements in Europe, [1958-1962]; the activities of CND to protest against the US deployment of General Dynamics BGM-109G Gryphon Ground Launched Cruise Missiles (GLCM) to RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire, 1980-1984; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962. 41pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Ulrike Poppe, East Berlin citizen, relating to her opposition to the government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the surveillance of opposition members by the GDR state security forces, participation in anti government demonstrations, reaction to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and visiting West Berlin, Nov 1989. 13pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Tobias Hollitzer, citizen of German Democratic Republic (GDR), relating to his opposition to the government of the GDR, participation in anti-government demonstrations in Leipzig, 1989. 12pp

Typescript transcript of Ambassador Thomas Reeve Pickering, US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 1989-1992, being interviewed by Brian Lapping, in which he describes the events surrounding the first UN Security Council resolution following the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, 2 Aug 1990, and also the process of negotiation between Soviet, US and Arab nations relating to later Security Council resolutions. 15pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Ambassador Gustavo Figueroa, First Secretary, Argentine Foreign Ministry, 1982, relating to his reaction to information of the Argentine government's intention to reoccupy the Falklands Islands (Islas Malvinas), Mar 1982; celebration gatherings of Argentines in Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires; meetings between Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr, US Secretary of State, 1981-1982 and Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1981-1982, at the Argentine Foreign Office and later Casa Rosada (Pink House) Argentine Government house (9-10 Apr 1982); lack of coherence between Argentine diplomatic and military policy in relation to the US mediated negotiations; Argentine justification of the invasion of the Falkland Islands, 2 Apr 1982, and their estimations of the probable British response to it. Also comments on the role of Gen Vernon Anthony Walters, US Ambassador-at-large, 1981-1985, in Haig's negotiating team. 29pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Alexei Kalashnikov, Soviet Strategic Missile Force, relating to the creation of the Soviet Strategic Missile Forces, 1958; the detonation by the USSR of a 50 megaton nuclear weapon, Novaya Zemlya Island, USSR, 30 Oct 1961; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Soviet first strike capability, [1960-1969]; the Soviet opinion of the US strategic doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD), 1967. 19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Sir Frederick Alfred Laker, British aviator, relating to his career in the aviation industry and his involvement in supplying aircraft for the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949. 19pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Heinz Weber, aircraft unloader, Tempelhof Airport, West Berlin, 1948-1949, relating to German currency reform, Jun 1948; Weber's employment as an aircraft unloader during the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949; the unloading of coal at Tempelhof Airport; conditions in West Berlin during the Soviet blockade; the disruption to the domestic supply of electricity during the blockade; Weber's journeys into the Soviet occupied zone of Berlin during the blockade, 1948-1949; the importance of Radio in Amerikanischer Sektor (RIAS) for the population of Berlin during the airlift, 1948-1949; the speech made by Ernst Reuter, Social Democrat Mayor of Berlin, 1948-1953, to the large public demonstration in Berlin against communist inspired anti-democratic activity and the attempt to prevent the introduction of the Deutschmark in Berlin, 9 Sep 1948; the local elections in Berlin, 5 Dec 1948; the theft of supplies by German airport workers during the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949. 16pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Guilam Guilani, former Col in Afghan Army [1978], relating to his opposition to Soviet military advisors in the Afghan army; joining the Mujahedin fighters following the Soviet Army invasion of Afghanistan, 1979; and the ensuing war (1979-1989.) 5pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Prof Roald Sagdeev, Director of Vlatch Institute [Soviet Space programme] relating to the change in the Soviet political administration under Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, including the Soviet response to the announcement by US President Ronald Reagan of his Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI), 1983; Dagdeev's attitude to Gorbachev's appointment as General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1985; and increasing openness in Soviet government. 21pp

Typescript transcript of interview with Gennady Serusevich Kudriavtsev, Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces, 1961-1973, relating to Kudriavtsev's military service, 1961-1973; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the USSR reaching parity with the USA in the numbers of strategic nuclear weapons deployed, 1969; the US deployment of the Martin-Marietta LGM-25C Titan II Heavy Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), 1962-[1987]. 22pp