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Original Articles

Backlash of the Free World: the US presence at the World Youth Festival in Helsinki, 1962

Pages 230-255 | Published online: 25 May 2011

References

Archival sources

  • Archives of the Finnish Secret Police, Helsinki.
  • Archives of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Helsinki.
  • Hoover Institution Archives (HIA), Stanford, CA Boris Nicolaevsky Collection RFE/RL Corporate Archives.
  • J. F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, MA National Security.
  • The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), College Park, MD Record Groups 84, 273.
  • People's Archives (PA), Helsinki Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 1944-.

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