CWIHP Conference on Vassiliev Notebooks Featured on CNN
CWIHP is pleased to announce that the 20-21 May 2009 conference Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks and the Documentation of Soviet Intelligence Operations in the United States, 1930-1950 was featured on the 21 May 2009 edition of CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.
The conference was convened to critically examine the contents of Alexander Vassiliev's 1000+ pages of handwritten notes on KGB operations in the United States in the pre- and early- Cold War period, and to integrate new findings into the existing historiography.
Video of the CNN segment on the conference can be viewed at http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/05/21/tsr.tatton.kgb.documents.cnn?iref=videosearch.
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