Mao: The Unknown Story

Consul General, Shenyang,1950–52; embassy, 1940s; China scholar with special archive access

Lobov, Lt. Gen. Georgi

Commander, Soviet Air Force in Korean War

Mirovitskaya, Dr. Raisa A.

China scholar with special access to Defense Ministry archives

Plotnikov, Col. Georgi

senior North Korea expert, Institute of Military History

Rogachev, Igor

ambassador to China

Selivanov, Gen. Igor V.

adviser to the head of the Medical Department of the North Korean army, 1950–52

Shevelyov, Konstantin

top expert on Comintern archives and CCP

Sidikhmenov, Vasili

interpreter on secret Russian mission to Yenan, 1945; head, interpreters’ bureau, Moscow summit, 1957

Sozinov, Gen. Valentin

Chief Soviet adviser to chief of staff, North Korean Army in Korean War, 1950–52

Tikhvinsky, Sergei L

.

intelligence officer; special access to archives

Troyanovsky, Oleg

senior foreign policy adviser to Khrushchev and Kosygin; ambassador to China

Zagvozdin, Gen. (KGB)

supervised exhumation of Lin

Aleksandr

Biao in Mongolia, 1971

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INGAPORE

Lee Khoon Choy

senior China policy adviser to Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew

Prime Minister

Rajaratnam, S

.

Foreign Minister

SPAIN

Carrillo, Santiago

head, Communist Party; at Comintern, 1930s–1940s

T

ANZANIA

Babu, Abdul Rahman

Minister of Trade and Commerce, 1965 (negotiated Tan-Zam Railway); earlier, Foreign Minister, Zanzibar

T

HAILAND

Chatichai Choonhavan

Foreign Minister; later Premier

Mme Pridi

wife of former Thai Premier; long-term exile in China

UK

Bosshardt, Alfred

Swiss missionary kidnapped on Long March

Condron, Andrew

Korean War POW who went to China

Croft, John

code-breaker on intercepts of Russian broadcasts to foreign Communist Parties, 1940s

Gordievsky, Oleg

Former Soviet intelligence officer

Heath, Edward

Prime Minister

Morgan, Sir John

British diplomat, Peking, 1970

Needham, Joseph

British embryologist; on germ warfare investigation team, 1952

USA

Bush, George H. W.

head, US Liaison Office, Peking 1974–75; CIA Director; President

Colby, William

CIA Director under Nixon and Ford

Colling, John

US mission to Yenan (“Dixie” Mission)

Davies, John Paton

US State Department; to Yenan

Ford, Gerald

President

Haig, Gen. Alexander

head, advance party for Nixon visit, 1972

Helms, Richard

CIA Director

Hitch, Herbert

US mission to Yenan (“Dixie” Mission); on Marshall Mission

Kissinger, Henry

National Security Adviser, 1969–73; Secretary of State, 1973–77

Lilley, James

Top CIA China expert; CIA station chief, Peking

Lord, Winston

Assistant Secretary of State

Odeen, Philip

(T)

National Security Council staff

Polevoy, Leonid S.

(T)

son of man who tried to teach young Mao Russian

Roderick, John

AP correspondent, Yenan, 1945–47

Rusk, Dean

(T)

Secretary of State

Schlesinger, James

Secretary of Defense; CIA Director

Scowcroft, Gen. Brent

National Security Adviser

Service, John

State Department; mission to Yenan (“Dixie” Mission)

Solomon, Richard

Assistant Secretary of State

Snow, Helen Foster

Yenan, 1937; first wife of Edgar

[Nym Wales]

Snow

Snow, Lois Wheeler

second wife of Edgar Snow; to China with Snow, 1970

Stokes, William

Vice-Consul, Shenyang (and Jadwiga)

Williams, Robert

(T)

black militant; resident in China, 1960s

Yang Chen Ning

(T)

Nobel Prize — winning physicist

VIETNAM

Bui Diem

South Vietnamese ambassador to USA

Bui Tin, Col.

North Vietnamese army, at Dien Bien Phu

Ngo Manh Lan

adviser to Gen. Giap

Nguyen Dinh Uoc,

North Vietnamese army, at Dien

Lt. Gen.

Bien Phu; director, Institute of Military History, Hanoi

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UGOSLAVIA (FORMER)

Jojic, Prof. Dimitri

former army officer (exile in Albania); worked in Radio Peking, 1960s and 1970s

ZAIRE (NOW CONGO)

Mobutu Sese Seko

President

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