i discovered the papers, from the kremlin of vitaly leonidivich katayev. mr. katayev was a professional staff member in the central committee. he passed away in 2001, but as i was doing my research i found he had left behind a large amount of documents from the time that he served on the central committee as a staff member. he was in the defense department which was responsible for the entire military industrial complex and mr. katayev was one of those fellows who lived by the power and of the lift up his pencil and his pen. he still dozens of large notebooks with notes every day of technical details, things that had happened in the kremlin, arms control, weapons decisions, and what is so fascinating about this archive, which will be available publicly to everybody at the hoover institution is that you get an inside view of some of the most important turning points in decisions of soviet arms control, weapons development in the last years of the cold war. i think this is really important because a lot of us who are struggling to understand this period, certain

coming up, a car overturns in rock creek, sending cruise kremlin to try to get to the driver trapped inside -- sending crews >> the dc area is in the middle of a deep freeze, with some of the coldest air we have seen so far this winter. the powerful wind gusts made it feel like it was in the single digits. the wind brought down trees and knocked out power to thousands of people across the area. investigators are trying to figure out what led to a bizarre accident this morning. police say a car went off the rock creek parkway and into the icy rock creek. joshua kuhlman was pulled from the vehicle barely ali ad rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead this afternoon. there will be enhanced security measures for people coming to the u.s. from overseas. tsa says all passengers are eligible for random screenin anpeople coming from certain countries will undergo other security measures. getting back to the cold, we are looking at less windy. >> today is one of those days when it hurt to go outside. the wind is finally beginning to diminish, a good sign for those who may be walk

it was the occupancy of the kremlin, not the occupants of the white house or the vatican had locked thedoors to change. after three leaders in a row the polish leader chose the youngest leader. a lot of people took the view up to the mid-1980s and even beyond that the soviet system in particular was impervious to change from within. the kgb worked efficiently to eliminate the possibility of change from below. as for change from above, surely that was impossible. the idea that a reform will could climb all the way to the general secretaryship was regarded as far-fetched. gorbachev was much more of a reformer than he was prepared to reveal. and as years he became substantially more radical. he was chosen because he was already the second secretary of the party to seize the initiative. called a meeting within a few hours of his death and within 24 hours gorbachev had been chosen not only by the bureau, but by the central committee. no plausible alternative candidates. state funerals had become something of an embarrassment. that, however, did not stop russians from telling jokes about them

the assignment of liquidating trotsky, and the orders come directly from the kremlin. that assignment would be interested to a loan operative. they had managed to penetrate trotsky's inner circle. he was ramon mccotter, a spaniard recruited by the space in spain during the spanish civil war. in paris in the summer of 1938 disguised as a belgian student using the alias he seduced by a sister of one of trotsky's former secretaries, former assistants. she was a brooklyn trotskyist -- she was visiting paris -- bidinotto sylvia. mccotter menard arrived in new york in the fall of 1939 now using the name frank jackson, a canadian businessman. that was his new identity. silvia of new about this as a front and decided to go along with it for her own reasons. she had no idea what she was up to no idea he belonged to the nkvd. he maneuvered sylvia down to mexico city and used her to incinerate himself into trotsky's household. he claimed to be a heavy financial supporter of the french trotskyist in paris. of course by the summer of 1940 there is no way to verify this, there's no

but american reporters would constantly send written questions to the kremlin in the hope that stalin had something he wanted to say. a man named kings' barry smith, who was the chief foreign correspondent of the hearst news service had asked -- send questions to stalin and he chose to answer those five questions. no one, particularly dean acheson was the one who understood but one of stalin's answers meant. that is when he was asked about berlin airlift was still going on. when he was asked about berlin, he did not mention the currency reform, which after all was the stated reason for the blockade. .. is your leader open to solving this problem at this time? and the answer came back two weeks later, yes. it was a tremendous embarrassment to them. they knew they have lost once the loser -- the general winner had defeated the polling in the general winner had defeated hitler and he assumed general hitler -- general winter would defeat the airlift and when he didn't teeny the game was up. >> donations played a role -- back channel keeping the dialogue open. >> yes. yes. yes. it was one

far as anyone could tell but american reporters would constantly send of written questions to the kremlinnd the hope that stalin said something to say. a man named kingsbury smith it was the chief foreign correspondent on the hearst news service had sense questions to stalin, in stalin to answer those five questions. no one particularly come a dean acheson was the first one who understood what one of stalin's centers manned. that is when he was asked about berlin. the airlift was still going on. when he was asked about berlin he did not mention currency reform which after all would stand to reason for the blockade. acheson would to truman and told him that, and they then decided that acheson in his next press conference, he gave weekly press conferences, would mention the stalin answers were very interesting. that was the open part. behind the scenes part was that our delegation to the u.n. would ask their delegation, malik, was the omission of currency reform deliberate, and two weeks later mallach came back and said yes, it was. then the question was, at the next question was, is your l

the kremlin needs to accept the right of ukraine to its independence and to its right to live as a peaceful political democracy free of intimidation. the united states has a strong interest in seeing the rise of a sovereign, free democratic and prosperous ukraine. the presidential elections scheduled to take place next week in ukraine need to be conducted in a free and fair manner. the victor in those elections needs to leave ukraine in a democratic and noncorrupt manner in order to solidify the hard-won progress already made by the ukranian people. i urge my colleagues to render their full support for this resolution and with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from tennessee. mr. tanner: thank you, madam speaker. i don't have any other requests for speakers. i yield back. mr. boozman: i thank you, mr. chairman. we also do not have any requests for time to speak. with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. mr. tanner: we yield back. the speaker pr