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	*Cold War International History Project Update, March 2005*
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CWIHP March 2005 Update
Prepared by the Woodrow Wilson Center's
Cold War International History Project (CWIHP)
Christian F. Ostermann, Director
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UPCOMING CWIHP EVENTS:
"The Hottest Spot South of Havana: The U.S., Brazil and the Cuban
Missile Crisis
March 9, 2005, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
With James G. Hershberg, Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar;
Louis Bitencourt, Director, Brazil @ the Wilson Center; and Peter
Kornbluh, Senior Analyst, National Security Archive.
Copies of the paper by Dr. Hershberg will be available.
Refreshments will be served.

"Containing Arab Nationalism"
Salim Yaqub, University of Chicago
March 23, 4-5:30pm
Woodrow Wilson Center, 5th Floor Conference Room

For further information and online RSVP visit the CWIHP website at the
following web address.

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SAVE THE DATE
for the following CWIHP events:

April 6 -- Igor Lukes, "New Evidence on the Slansky Affair"

April 20-- Kai Bird, Martin Sherwin, "J. Robert Oppenheimer: American
Prometheus"

May 25, Gareth Porter, "Pearls of Dominance"

June 9 -- Malcolm Byrne and Vojtech Mastny, eds, "A Cardboard Castle?"

June 22 -- Mitch Lerner, Mark Lawrence, David Shreve and Peter Hahn,
"Looking Back at LBJ: White House Politics in a New Light"

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NEW DOCUMENTATION AND PUBLICATIONS
"POLAND AND VIETNAM, 1963"
CWIHP is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of "Poland and
Vietnam, 1963: New Evidence on Secret Communist Diplomacy and the
'Maneli Affair,'" CWIHP Working Paper No. 45, by Malgorzata Gnoinska
(George Washington University). Using new evidence from Warsaw archives,
Gnoinska brings missing pieces to a lingering mystery of the Vietnam
War: the rumored attempts by a Polish diplomat in Saigon to initiate a
secret dialogue between North and South Vietnam in the autumn of
1963--reports that intensified the Kennedy Administration's suspicions
toward the Diem regime in the period leading up to the 1 November 1963
coup. Gnoinska also discloses fresh evidence on a previously unknown
Polish peace initiative on Vietnam in 1963 involving JFK's ambassador to
India, economist John Kenneth Galbraith. The Working Paper, including
its extensive documentary appendix, will be available at the following
web address.

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CWIHP ARCHIVES UPDATE
"Inside the Securitate Archives"
Lavinia Stan (Center for Post-Communist Studies at St. Francis Xavier
University, Canada) takes a closer look at the state of the Romanian
state security archives. See
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=3D1409&fuseaction=3Dtopics.item&ne=
ws_id=3D109979=20

or go to the "Archives and Access Update" link on the CWIHP homepage.

"Flooding the Gobi Desert: Mongolian Archival Update." CWIHP affiliate
Sergey Radchenko reports on his campaign to further access to Mongolian
government records. See:
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=3D1409&fuseaction=3Dtopics.item&ne=
ws_id=3D105757=20



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COLD WAR NEWS
Studies in Intelligence
The Center for Study of Intelligence at CIA has added a large collection
of declassified articles from the in-house journal, "Studies in
Intelligence," to its website. According to the site, there are more
than 400 articles available online. See the "Cold War News" link on the
CWIHP home page.

Ostpolitik
German Ostpolitik, 1966-1974: The European and Global Response. Call for
Papers.
Dates: May 12-13, 2006
Place: The Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Co-Sponsor, The German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
For submission details see "Cold War news" link on CWIHP homepage.

Marshall Plan
In the Winter 2004-2005 issue of the JOURNAL OF COLD WAR STUDIES (Vol.
7, No. 1), Michael Cox and Caroline Kennedy-Pipe debate Marc
Trachtenberg, G=FCnther Bischof, John Bledsoe Bonds, L=E1szl=F3 Borhi and
Charles S. Maier on the meaning of the 1947 Marshall Plan. See:
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=3D1409&fuseaction=3Dtopics.item&ne=
ws_id=3D106717=20



Communist Security Apparatus
An International Conference "The Communist Security Apparatus in East
Central Europe, 1944-45 to 1989" will be held in Warsaw from 16 to 18
June 2005. The conference will take place in the monumental Soviet-style
Palace of Culture and Science which was Stalin's gift to the Polish
nation. For further information, see "Cold War News" link on the CWIHP
homepage.

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CWIHP IN THE NEWS
"Chronicling the Cold War"
The leading US library journal features CWIHP, its collections and
activities in its February 2005 issue. For a copy of the article, please
contact CWIHP at the following e-mail address.

"North Korea and the Kim Dynasty"
Reuters Television, Fuji Press (Japan) Yonhap News Agency (Seoul) and
Seoul Broadcasting System as well as C-SPAN Book TV covered CWIHP Korea
Initiative's February 9 event, "Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly
Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty," featuring Bradley K. Martin,
Manship Chair in Journalism, Louisiana State University and Nicholas
Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, American Enterprise
Institute. An event report is available on the CWIHP Korea Initiative
page on the CWIHP website.

CWIHP Seniors Scholar Bernd Schaefer and Vojtech Mastny and WWICS/CWIHP
Public Policy Scholar Jim Hershberg were featured in a documentary on
Australian radio. For links to the transcript, see "CWIHP in the News"
on the CWIHP website.

For further information, see the CWIHP website.
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THE COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY PROJECT (CWIHP) is a clearinghouse
and research institute for international Cold War history based at the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
CWIHP collects, translates, and publishes declassified documents from
former Communist world and other archives. It supports the full and
prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of
the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new
sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" and
other countries into Cold War historiography.

A tax-exempt public charity, the Cold War International History
Project/Woodrow Wilson Center receives funding from the Korea
Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation and other donors.

For further information, please visit the CWIHP website.

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