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Russian presidential decree (no. 489-rp, dated 22 September 1994) is supposed to lead to massive declassification of materials more than 30 years old. ("Decree to Reveal Secrets," Moscow News [English] 40 (7-13 October 1994), 14.)

State Duma passes legislation on Freedom of Information giving citizens rights to state information resources, reports Rossiiskie vesti on 23 November 1994. (RFE/RL Daily Report 223 (28 November 1994).)

State Duma passes Russian "Federal Law on Information, Informatization, and the Protection of Information" on 25 January 1995; signed by Yeltsin on 20 February 1995. (Text in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 22 February 1995, 15-16, in FBIS-SOV-95-048-S (13 March 1995), 29-37

Yeltsin signs decree no. 180 dated 17 February 1995 to declassify and publish documents on Soviet nuclear weapons program up to 1954. ("Yeltsin Opens Archives On Soviet Nuclear History," Washington Post, 19 February 1995, A46; OMRI Daily Digest 36:1 (20 February 1995); Rossiskaya Gazeta, 1 March 1995, 14, in FBIS-SOV-95-058-S (27 March 1995), 1.) Commission formed to implement decree; members listed. (Rossiiskaia Gazeta, 7 June 1995, 5, in FBISSOV-95-115-S (15 June 1995), 67.)

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Joint Task Force on Archives, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and The American Historical Association, 1 April 1995," Slavic Review 54:2 (Summer 1995), 407-426.)

Interview with Rosarkhiv head R.G. Pikhoia. ("Rossiia atnositsoa 1 chislu belikikh archivnikh derzhav"" ["Russia Acts Toward a Time of Great Archival Power"], Rossiiski Vesti, 22 June 1995, 7.)

Interview with head of the Russian Presidential Archives (APRF) Aleksandr Korotkov. ("Dla chevo otkrivaiem ‘osobuyu papki"" [Why Open the "Special Files"], Krasnaia Zvezda, 9 August 1995, 2.)

Armenia

Document published purporting to confirm secret collaboration between Dashnak party (Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF)) and KGB during Soviet era. (Aragil Electronic News Bulletin (Yerevan), 4 March 1995, in FBIS-SOV-95-043 (6 March 1995), 93.)

Ex-KGB officer describes work in 1980s. (Golos Armenii (Yerevan), 6 July 1995, 1-2, in FBIS-SOV-95-136 (17 July 1995), 9294.)

Belarus

Belarus body aiding U.S.-Russian MIA/ POW commission facing disbandment. (Yevgeny Sulyga, "About Traces of the Vietnam War in the City of Minsk," Komsomolskaya Pravda [Moscow], 28 February 1995, 1, 3, in FBIS-SOV-95-040 (1 March 1995), 51-52.)

Estonia

Estonian government concerned by reports of KGB documents being sold on black market; Estonia's Archives Department acknowledges loss of "thousands of files on the activity of the KGB and other intelligence agencies." (Interfax report of 20 November 1994, in RFE/RL Daily Report 221 (21 November 1994).)

Parliamentary committee reports results of two-year investigation of KGB activities in Estonia, including review of archives.

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Archiv 28:3 (1995), 290-298; Gerhard Wettig, "Stalin - Patriot und Demokrat fur Deutschland?" and Loth, "Kritik ohne Gundlagen. Erwiderung auf Gerhard Wettig," Deutschland Archiv 28:7 (1995), 743-750; Wettig, "Die beginnende Umorientierung der sowjetischen Deutschland-Politik im Frühjahr und Sommer 1953," Deutschland Archiv 28:5 (1995), 495-507.

Stasi files disclose data on notorious terrorist "Carlos" and lawyer now defending him, Jacques Verges. (Peter Sandmeyer, “The Jackal and the Villain," Stern (Hamburg), 22 September 1993[4], 202-204, in FBIS-WEU94-185 (23 September 1994), 14-15.)

Social Democratic Party (SPD) chair Rudolph Scharping seeks Stasi files to rebut charges by Helmut Kohl and others that the SPD betrayed the goal of German unification in talks with GDR officials. (Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Munich), 8 February 1994, 4, in "Scharping Rejects CDU Accusations of SPD-Stasi Cooperation," FBIS-WEU-94-027 (9 February 1994), 31.)

Reports cite Stasi files showing Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) politician Gregor Gysi collaborated with secret police against his client, dissident Robert Havemann; Gysi denies charges. ("Meeting at 'Ellen,"" Der Spiegel (Hamburg), 17 October 1994, 21-26, in FBIS-WEU-94-201 (18 October 1994), 23-25; "Gregor's Reports," Der Spiegel (Hamburg), 7 November 1994, 26-30, in "Files Incriminate Gysi for Stasi 'Collaboration," FBIS-WEU-94216 (8 November 1994), 22.)

Charges lodged against couple for spying for Stasi against West Germany between 1971 and 1976. (Berlin DDP/ADN, 27 October 1994, in FBIS-WEU-94-209 (28 October 1994), 18.)

Interview with Markus Wolf, former head of GDR external intelligence service. ("East Germany's Old Spymaster Talks: So Many Regrets, but Uncontrite," NYT, 6 June 1995, A11.)

Publications: R.C. Raack, Stalin's Drive to the West, 1938-1945: The Origins of the Cold War (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995); Norman Naimark, The

Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995); Inventar der Befehle des Obersten Chefs der Sowjetischen Militaradministration in Deutschland (SMAD) 1945-1949 (Munich: K.G. Saur, 1995); Wilfried Loth, ed., Die deutsche Frage in die Nachkriegszeit (Berlin: Akademie, 1994); Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995).

Hungary

Recounting of case of school-teacher arrested in connection with show trials in Hungary under Matyas Rakosi in Stalin's last years. (Eva V. Deak, "A Show Trial Case History: The Story of Gyorgyi Tarisznyas," The Hungarian Quarterly 35:134 (Summer 1994), 75-91.)

Budapest Military Prosecutor's Office on 28 October 1994 presses charges against three army officers accused of killing unarmed demonstrators during 1956 events, according to MTI. (RFE/RL Daily Report 207 (31 October 1994).)

Survey of international dimension of 1956 Hungarian crisis, using new Eastern, Western, and Hungarian sources. (Csaba Bekes, "The 1956 Revolution and World Politics," The Hungarian Quarterly 36 (Summer 1995), 109-121.)

Recordings of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcasts during 1956 Hungarian crisis discovered. (NYT, 24 October 1995.)

Newly-available Hungarian archives inform account of Budapest's role in 1968 Czechoslovak crisis. (Istvan Vida, "Janos Kadar and the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968," The Hungarian Quarterly 35:135 (Autumn 1994), 108-123.)

Government abolishes Historical Investigation Committee established by previous Hungarian government to investigate “blank spots" in recent history, says radio Budapest on 22 December 1994. (RFE/RL Daily Report 241 (22 December 1994).)

Engelmayer, Hungarian ambassador to Poland, recounting influence of 1956, 1968, 1970, etc. ("Ambassador with a Rucksack," The Hungarian Quarterly 35:133 (Spring 1994), 123-128.)

Publications: Die Ungarische Revolution 1956 [findings of an Austrian-Hungarian Conference in Vienna, 6 April 1995] (Wien: Collegium Hungaricum, 1995).

Poland

Sejm considering State Secrets Bill barring release of information on intelligence activities for 80 years, national security or defense information for 40 years, and economic secrets for 30 years; media, liberals, oppose bill, which is returned to committee. (RFE/ RL Daily Report 163 (29 August 1994).) Government and media agree new constitution will guarantee freedom of information, press; parliament rejects restrictive secrecy law. (Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza reports, 25 October 1994, quoted in RFE/RL Daily Report 203 (25 October 1994).)

Ex-Soviet base near Szczecin seen as econological hazard. (Glos Szczecinski, 1 February 1995, 1, in JPRS-TEN-95-004 (28 February 1995), 21-22.)

Russian Prime Minister Chernomyrdin on 9 September 1994 meets Polish team investigating Katyn massacre. (Gazeta Wyborcza cited in RFE/RL Daily Report 173 (12 September 1994).) Polish president Walesa, at ceremony marking 55th anniversary of Katyn massacres, calls on Russia to reveal full truth. (Warsaw TV, 3 April 1995, in FBISEEU-96-064 (4 April 1995), 32-33.) Criminal probe begun in 1993 by Smolensk Military Prosecutor's Office drawing to a close. (Komsomolskaya Pravda (Moscow), 29 April 1995, in FBIS-SOV-95-085 (3 May 1995), 6-7.) Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian prosecutors sign accord on cooperation regarding Katyn investigations. (Warsaw PAP, 31 May 1995, in FBIS-EEU-95107-A (2 June 1995), 23.) Walesa speaks at Katyn. (FBIS-EEU-95-107 (5 June 1995), 48-49.) Yeltsin sends message to ceremony. (Moscow Interfax, 3 June 1995, in FBISSOV-95-107 (5 June 1995), 9.)

Ministry of Internal Affairs considers openBiographical interview with Akos ing up archives up to 1956. (Warsaw Polskie

Radio, 30 March 1995, in FBIS-EEU-95061 (30 March 1995), 23.

Student groups demand release of secret police files on 1977 death of anti-government activist Stanislaw Pyjas. (RFE/RL Daily Report 41 (1 March 1994).

Publications: Tajne Dokumenty Biura Politycznego: Grudzien 1970 [Secret Documents of the Politbureau of the Polish Communist Party (PUWP) on Events of December 1970] (London: Aneks Publishers, 1991); Tajne Dokumenty: Biura Politycznego: PZPR a "Solidarnosc" 1980-1981 [Secret Documents of the Politbureau of the Polish Communist Party (PUWP). Party versus "Solidarity" 1980-1981] (London: Aneks Publishers, 1992); Tajne Dokumenty Biura Politycznego i Sekretariatu KC: Ostatni rok wladzy 1988-1989 [Secret Documents of the Politbureau of the Polish Communist Party (PUWP) and the Secretariat of the Central Committee: The Last Year in Power, 19881989) (London: Aneks Publishers, 1994); Andrzej Garlicki, ZTajnych Archiwow [From the Secret Archives] (Warsaw: Polska Oficyna Wydawnicza ‘BGW', 1993); Pawel Machcewicz, Polski Rok 1956 [The Polish Year 1956] (Warsaw: Oficyna Wydawnicza 'Mowia Wieki', 1993); Andrzej Garlicki and Andrzej Paczkowski, eds., Zaciskanie Petli: Tajne Dokumenty Dotyczace Czechoslowacji 1968 r. [Tightening of the Noose: Secret Documents Concerning Czechoslovakia 1968] (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, 1995); Michael Bernhard and Henryk Szlajfer, eds., From the Polish Underground: Selections from Krytyka, 1978-1993 (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Press, 1995).

Romania

Report on Soviet policy toward December 1989 Romanian events, including letter from Shevardnadze to Gorbachev and minutes of meetings. (“On the Events of 1989 in Romania," Diplomaticheskii Vestnik (Moscow) 21-22 (November 1994), 74-80.)

Appearing before "December 1989” parliamentary commission, President Ilescu denied allegations he sought Soviet assistance on 22 or 23 December 1989. (Adevarul (Bucharest), 20 December 1994, 2, in FBISEEU-94-249 (28 December 1994), 17.)

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Controversy erupts over documents claiming past collaboration by Bishop Laszlo Tokes, ethnic Hungarian priest whose arrest sparked 1989 revolt, with Romanian Securitate secret police [Romanian Intelligence Service, or SRI]. (Gyorgy Jakab, "UDMR Will Ask to See the SRI Files of All Political Leaders," Adevarul (Bucharest), 29 December 1994, in FBIS-EEU-95-001 (3 January 1995), 24.) Paper publishes purported documents showing Tokes was paid Securitate informer. ("According to Renasterea Banateana, Laszlo Tokes Informed the Securitate Under the Name of Laszlo Kolozsvar," Curierul National (Bucharest), 31 December 1994, in FBISEEU-95-003 (5 January 1995), 19.)

Account of Soviet intervention in 1984 Mongolian putsch. (Zorik Tsedenbal, "Novoe 'Delo Vrachei"" [A New "Doctor's Plot"], Nezavisimaia Gazeta (Moscow), 2 March 1994, 8.)

People's Republic of China

[Ed. note: For detailed lists of recent sources, see the essays by Michael Hunt and Chen Jian elsewhere in this issue of the Bulletin.]

Evidence on early wrangling between Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Moscow over Soviet seizure of Chinese industrial equipment in Manchuria at close of World War II. (Liu Guowu, "Zhanhou zhongsu liangguo chuli dongbei rewei chanyede jiufen" [The Argument Between China and the USSR After the War Over How to Deal with the Japanese Puppet's Industry], Modern Chinese History (Chinese People's University Publications Reprint Series) 1 (1995), 100-104.

Reassessment of early stages of relations (and non-relations) between U.S. and PRC. (Thomas J. Christensen, "A 'Lost Chance' for What? Rethinking the Origins of U.S.PRC Confrontation," The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 4:3 (Fall 1995), 249-278.)

Account of alleged attempt by Guomindang (Kuomintang) to murder PRC Premier Zhou Enlai in 1955. (Steve Tsang, "Research Note:

Update

Target Zhou Enlai: The 'Kashmir Princess' Incident of 1955," The China Quarterly 139 (September 1994), 766-782.)

Article based on CCP sources explores Zhou Enlai's handling of the 1958 Taiwan Straits crisis, including data on secret communications between PRC and Taiwan. (Liao Xinwen, "Zhou Enlai yu heping jiejue taiwan wentide fangzhen" [Zhou Enlai and the Initiative to Peacefully Solve the Taiwan Problem], Dangde Wenxian [Party Documents] 5 (1994), 32-38.)

Reassessment, using new Chinese sources, of Mao's evolving views of U.S. (He Di, "The Most Respected Enemy: Mao Zedong's Perception of the United States," The China Quarterly 137 (March 1994), 144-158.)

Publications: Michael H. Hunt and Niu Jun, eds., Toward a History of Chinese Communist Foreign Relations, 1920s-1960s: Personalities and Interpretive Approaches (Washington, DC: Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, n.d.); John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai, China's Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994); Nicholas Eftimiades, Chinese Intelligence Operations (Annapolis, MDL Naval Institute Press, 1994); Robert S. Ross, Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969-1989 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995); Thomas J. Christensen, Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and SinoAmerican Conflict, 1947-58 (forthcoming in 1996 from Princeton University Press).

Korean War

Soviet policy toward Korea immediately following World War II assessed. (Kan In Gu, "The Soviet Union's Korean Policy Following the Second World War (19451948), Vestnik Sankt Peterburgskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta 16 (1994),

91-93.)

Soviet documents on the Korean War, including military reports to Stalin. ("The Participation of the USSR in the Korean War (New Documents)," Voprosi istorii 11 (1994), 30-46.)

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English translations of newly released Russian materials, with commentary. (Vladimir Petrov, "Soviet Role in the Korean War Confirmed: Secret Documents Declassified," Journal of Northeast Asian Studies 13:3 (Fall 1994), 42-67.)

Kathryn Weathersby, "New Russian Archival Materials, Old American Debates, and the Korean War," Problems of Post-Communism 42:5 (September-October 1995), 2532.

A conference on "The Korean War: An Assessment of the Historical Record," was held at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, on 24-25 July 1995, sponsored by The Korea Society, Korea-America Society, and Georgetown University. Please consult the sponsors for copies of papers delivered.

Publications: William Stueck, The Korean War: An International History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995); Shu Guang Zhang, Mao's Military Romanticism: China and the Korean War, 1950-1953 (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995)

Vietnam/Vietnam War

USSR sent 3,000 troops to Vietnam during U.S. involvement there, and 13 were killed, writes former Tass correspondent, citing interviews with ex-Soviet ambassador I. Shcherbakov and other former officials. (AP dispatch citing article Aleksandr Minaev in Ekho Planety [Echo of the Planet], November 1995.)

Vietnamese evidence on reactions to 1965 U.S. peace overtures. (Robert K. Brigham, "Vietnamese-American Peace Negotations: The Failed 1965 Initiatives," forthcoming in The Journal of American-East Asian Relations.)

Survey of PRC policy toward Vietnam War, using recently opened Chinese sources. (Chen Jian, "China's Involvement in the Vietnam War, 1964-1969," The China Quarterly 142 (June 1995), 356-378.)

Former Chinese People's Liberation Army official Zhu Kaiyin writes that Mao scaled back military aid to North Vietnam in late

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