Witness
Statement of Tat'yana Aleksandrovna
Vasil'yevaI, Tat'yana Aleksandrovna
Vasil'yeva, working at the address 3,
Vyborgskaya ulitsa, Moscow 125212,
hereby declare the following.
1. I am currently the Head of the
Department for Ensuring the Safekeeping
of Documents Preserved at the Centre
for the Preservation of Collections of
Historical Documents situated in Moscow
(hereinafter referred to as the
"Centre"). I have worked at the Centre
since August, 1970.
2. At the beginning of July, 1992, I
was standing in for one of my
colleagues and was working in the
reading room of the Centre.
Irving was working in the
reading room of the Centre at that
time. Following the instructions of the
Director of the Centre, V. N.
Bondaryev, I requested Mr Irving to
write a memorandum to my Director
indicating whether Mr Irving had in his
possession original documents from or
microfiche copies of material belonging
to the diaries of J. Goebbels, Mr
Irving wrote such a memorandum on 3
July, 1992. This memorandum was passed
on to the Director of the Centre V. N.
Bondaryev.
3. The documents of the centre
include an order requesting the issue
of material dated 09 June, 1992,
bearing numbers of material from
archive 500: "Chief Administration of
State Security of Germany, Berlin",
which was issued to Mr
Peter Millar (representative of
the British press) for the purposes of
study.
4. The contents of this document are
accurate to the best of my knowledge
and belief.
SIGNED: [SIGNATURE]
TAT'YANA VASIL'YEVA
DATE: 16.12.1998
[Stamp:]
STATE
ARCHIVE CENTRE OF RUSSIA
Centre for the Preservation of
Collections of Historical
Documents
