1893-1976
Eastern Europe
(372) documents
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South Asia
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April 22, 1989
A group of Soviet officials propose that the KGB, among other institutions, investigate the circumstances and locations of the deaths of Polish officers interned in the Soviet Union during World War II.
December 21, 1989
This report states that the Mongolian authorities requested that Soviet troops be withdrawn following the 1989 Sino-Soviet summit and rapprochement. The writers included a draft decree ordering the removal of troops by July of 1991.
August 30, 1989
Cooperative and intelligence sharing agreement.
August 27, 1986
Cooperative agreement with a focus on shared intelligence work in the "Near East against the US, Britain, the FRG, France, and the other NATO countries, and also against Israel, the Arab countries, and Arab political forces and organizations."
November 1983
Cooperative agreement for the two intelligence agencies to work together to combat anti-Soviet Chinese propaganda.
January 26, 1990
In a conversation recorded by Chernyaev, Gorbachev candidly discusses the political situation in East and West Germany, the weakness of the Socialist Unity Party (SED), and the Soviet strategy for managing German reunification.
November 17, 1989
Concerns further Soviet relations with Ethiopia.
July 22, 1989
The protocol deals with the further arming of Afghanistan and the training of Afghan servicemen in the USSR.
March 12, 1989
This memo concerns further measures for urgent military aid to Afghanistan.
June 16, 1989
KGB Chief Kryuchkov reports that research into Soviet repression in the 1930’s through 1950’s reveals that Imre Nagy willingly worked for the NKVD as an informant. Using the pseudonym “Volodya,” Nagy information is said to have led to sentences for Hungarian émigrés. Kryuchkov states that the documents should be shown to the Secretary General of the HSWP and possibly used in response to calls for Nagy’s rehabilitation.