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- 1989 Jan 30 (Creation)
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Typescript transmission script of episode 5 of The Nuclear Age, entitled 'At the brink', transmitted on Central Independent Television, 30 Jan 1989, relating to the election to the US Presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Nov 1960; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; the construction of the Berlin wall, Berlin, Germany, Aug 1961; the deployment by the USSR of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) in Cuba, [Aug-Sep] 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; including extracts of interviews with Dave Powers, Aide to US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Valentin Mikhailovich Falin, Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1952-1971, and Soviet Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, 1971-1978; Aleksandr Alekseev, Soviet Ambassador to Cuba; McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to US Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1961-1966; Robert Strange McNamara, US Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968; Dr Ray Steiner Cline, Deputy Director of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1962-1966; Theodore C Sorensen, Special Counsel to US President, 1960-1964; Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1957-1985; (David) Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State, 1961-1969; Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, US Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1961-1964; US Adm George Waldo Anderson, Jr, US Chief of Naval Operations, 1961-1963; US Brig Gen Chester V Clifton, Military Aide to President Kennedy [1961-1963]; Vladimir Bogachev, Soviet TASS (Telegrafnoe Agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza - Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) Correspondent, New York, USA; US Maj Gen William Fairbourne; Fedor Mikhailovich Burlatsky, Soviet Speechwriter for Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953-1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, 1958-1964; Roger Hilsman, Jr, Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research, US State Department, 1961-1963, and Director of Intelligence, US State Department.
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