The materials contain Nym Wales’s 1989 unpublished manuscript, in which she gave penetrating insights into the occurrences in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, Chinese-American relations, globalism, a reflection on her eighty-second birthday in 1989, as well as her correspondence with Communist Chinese provincial organizations and friends within and outside the United States in the late 1980s and the early 1990s.

Andrzej Pomian, who died three years ago in Washington, DC, at the age of ninety-seven, was a Polish émigré journalist and author, who worked for many years for Radio Free Europe. During World War II, he was a ranking officer in the Information and Propaganda Bureau of Poland’s clandestine Home Army, the largest underground organization in Nazi-occupied Europe. He kept a large metal trunk filled with his notes, documents, underground publications, and reports on the activities of the Home Army.The contents of that trunk, untouched in more than fifty years, have now arrived in the Hoover Archives as a large increment to the small Pomian collection already in the Archives.

This collection contains papers and memorabilia of Nikolai Khokhlov, a KGB defector sent to Germany in 1954 to assassinate the head of the anti-Soviet émigré organization NTS. Khokhlov declined and defected to the West, where he wrote his memoirs and became a specialist in Soviet military espionage and psychology. Most of the papers relate to those aspects of his career, including material on psychological warfare and research in parapsychology.

The Hoover Institution Archives has received an important increment, an album of photographs and a handwritten diary, to the personal papers of one of the wing commanders in the Polish Air Force in Britain, Lieutenant Colonel Bohdan Kleczynski (1902–1944). The Kleczynski diary, which covers the period September 1940 through March 1943, is in the form of long, melancholic letters that were never sent to his beloved wife who remained in German-occupied Poland.