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Foreign and Commonwealth Office files, Western European Department

Italy: UKA Rome despatch to FCO (“Fourth and Fifth Andreotti Governments, March 1979 to March 1979”) [Communists pulled down government for internal reasons, PSI still 'mesmerised' by PCI, have "not yet lived up to the promise of their 1978 Congress in Turin"] [declassified 2009]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: FCO33/4048 f171
Editorial comments: An internal FCO minute responding follows the despatch. Item listed by date on which the call itself took place. The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here can be seen here. Read other documents selected from this file.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 22pp
Themes: Foreign policy - theory and process, Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), British relations with Italy