The Kissinger transcripts
Subtitle: the top secret talks with Beijing and Moscow
By: edited by William Burr.
Contributors: Kissinger, Henry, 1923-; Burr, William.
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
Subjects: Kissinger, Henry, 1923- -- Archives.; National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.; Cabinet officers -- United States -- Archives.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1969-1974 -- Sources.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1974-1977 -- Sources.; China -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Sources.; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Sources.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Communist countries -- Sources.; Communist countries -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Sources.
Genres: Archives.; Sources.
Description: Now we have the unvarnished record of Henry Kissinger's high-stakes diplomacy during the Nixon years. Here are the transcripts, formerly classified "Top/Secret/Sensitive/Exclusive Eyes Only," of Kissinger's talks with Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Leonid Brezhnev, Andrei Gromyko, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George Bush, and others.

When Henry Kissinger left the State Department in January 1977, he took with him "personal papers" as well as copies of government papers that he had worked on and reviewed, and attempted to close off all access to them until five years after his death. However, transcripts of some of his most important conversations found their way into other files, where National Security Archive staffers tracked them down.

The Kissinger Transcripts offers an unparalleled view of American diplomacy as conducted by one of the most controversial Secretaries of State in modern U.S. history. With the record unmediated by Kissinger's spin, readers can begin to make up their own minds about the merits or flaws of a major effort to transform U.S. Cold War strategy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.