USSR

Correspondence, receipts, financial records, film descriptions, and journal publication editorial files documenting the activities of the American-Soviet Medical Society generated by Robert Leslie as the Society's business manager and an incomplete copy of the FBI's file on Leslie and the society.

Correspondence, reports, drafts, psychological testing instruments, subject files, and audio and video recordings which document a 1989 joint NIMH/U.S. State Department delegation visit to the Soviet Union to assess the state of Soviet psychiatry. The delegation focused on the diagnosis status, treatment, and human rights protections given to political and religious dissidents who had been involuntarily committed to psychiatric hospitals.

Microfilm copy, a copy in Russian, and an English translation of one chapter of International Scientific Cooperation and National Boundaries by Zhores A. Medvedev.