"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=1409&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=109979 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=1409&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=105757

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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, Günther Bischof, John Bledsoe Bonds, László Borhi and Charles S. Maier on the meaning of the 1947 Marshall Plan. See: http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=106717

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.