Sverdlovsk Chronology

Combined file of telegrams, emails, and faxes concerning Sverdlovsk

Meselson to Donald E. Ellis February 12, 1981, requesting more information on visit

Ellis memorandum on Soviet Visit on discussions with Gubanov

Hughes to Meselson April 28, 1981 - re: publications on Sverdlovsk

Hughes to Meselson August 18, 1981 re: references

Meselson letter to Dumaev July 14, 1983 - Proposal for Meselson to visit Sverdlovsk to Deputy Chairma, State Committee of the USSR for Science and Technology, following up on Geneva meeting8

Kaplan to Diomayev July 25, 1983 - Kaplan letter re: proposal for Meselson to visit Sverdlovsk

Kaplan to Diomayev August 30, 1983 - Kaplan letter re: Acadamician Fokin and Acad, Velikhov on proposed Pugwash meeting in Soviet Union

Kaplan to Diomayev September 1, 1983 - Kaplan expressing disappointment no meeting in Venice, requesting yes or no answer

Kaplan to Meselson September 5, 1983 - Agenda for proposed Pugwash meeting with Fokin, and Markov's feedback on Dioymayev's non-appearance in Venice.

Dumaev letter to Meselson October 27, 1983

Kaplan to Dioumayev November 13, 1983

Kaplan to Diomayev February 26, 1986 - Kaplan urging decision on proposed Meselson visit to Sverdlovsk

Kaplan to Fokin February 26, 1986 - re: proposed Meselson visit to Sverdlovsk

Fokin to Kaplan May 8 1986 - refusing proposal

Meselson to Burgasov September 9, 1986 summarizing Kaplan meeting in Geneva

Meselon to Burgasov September 30, 1986, discussing proposed methods for study in Sverdlovsk

Meselson to Burgasov June 9, 1987 - inviting Burgasov to Harvard to edit manuscript

Kaplan to Chervov February 15, 1988 - Kaplan sharing schedule for June meeting, and describing timeline of communication re: permission for Meselson visit to Sverdlovsk

Mesleson to Adams October 6, 1988 - Meselson request for additional support from McArthur Foundation to pay for visit

Meselson to Kosenko November 4, 1988 - Meselson email to EV Kosenko, Chief, Foreign Relations, USSR Ministry of Health re: Meselson to Chazov, September 30, 1988 requesting permission to visit SverdlovskMeselson to Burgasov April 21, 1987 - Proposing meeting in Moscow

Federov to Meselson December 30, 1988 - re: efforts to approve Meselson

Meselson Letter to Federov March 9, 1989

Statement at hearings: 'Germ Wars'--Biological Weapons Proliferation and the New Genetics, Committee on Governmental Affairs and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, U.S. Senate, 17 May 1989, pp 207-211, 498-503, 523-528. SUDOC: Y4.G74/9:S.hrg.101-744.

Kaplan to Goldanski June 5, 1989 - Martin Kaplan to Vitalii Goldanski, Soviet representative to Pugwash re: Meselson Sverdlovsk visit

Statement at hearings: The Biological Weapons Act of 1989, Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives One Hundred First Congress, second session, on H.R. 237 and H.R. 4314, 1 May 1990, pp 50-64. SUDOC: Y4.J89/1:101/79.

Shevardnadze draft August 1, 1990 - Bio EBB Document 7, Comrade Shevardnadze’s response to J. Baker’s memo on the subject of the Soviet biological warfare program for the Soviet-American meeting of ministers in Irkutsk

Yablokov Spravka 1991 - needs date and translation

Yablokov to Yeltsin Month 2, 1991 - needs translation

Mishustina 1991 letter to Yeltsin and English translation

Bio EBB Document 7 - notes on Biological Weapons

Meselson Letter to Yablokov January 22, 1992 Asking if Meselson can help him in investigation

Meselson to Yablokov January 22, 1992 Letter/telex from Yablokov to me (the first one)

Yablokov letter to Meselson February 5, 1992 Letter from Yablokov to me, the second one (on Hyatt Regency letterhead)

Yablokov to Rossel Month 2, 1992 - needs translation

Meselson to Yablokov March 3, 1992

Yablokov to Suetin March 26, 1992 - needs translation

Yablokov to Meselson March 28, 1994

Yablokov to Grachev March 26, 1992 - needs translation