In the sixth interview session, conducted on December 18, 2002, Linde continues to discuss his work for the United Nations General Assembly from 1951 to 1953. He talks about the practice of not hiring communists at U.N. offices based in the United States, about the Soviet Union's activities in the U.N., and about attending U.N. General Assemblies in New York City. He speaks about U.S.-Soviet relations, as well as national politics during this time period, and about the procedures of the U.N. He shares his reasons for leaving the State Department in 1953 and returning to Portland to find a job as a lawyer. He speaks about how federal power policy in the 1950s affected Oregon, and describes how he became a professor of law at the University of Oregon in 1954, and later a legislative aide to U.S. Senator Richard Neuberger.