Item WASHINGTON VERSION 4/6 - Transcript of interview with Stephen Solarz, Democrat member of Congress, [1991]

Typescript transcript of Stephen Joshua Solarz, Democrat member of US Congress, 1975-1993, being interviewed by Brian Lapping, describing his role in lobbying Congress to support the US President and allow the used of US forces in the liberation of Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion. Mentions the formation of a bi-partisan committee to raise support for military intervention in Kuwait and the arguments used; meeting of bi-partisan committee with George H W Bush, US President, 1989-1993; his own rationale for supporting military intervention; drafting of the Congress resolution giving the President the authority to take military action. Also recalls his meetings with Saddam Hussein, Iraqi President, in 1982 and 1987, and his Feb 1991 meeting with Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov, Soviet negotiator. 26pp Previous Ref: Roll 33 and 34