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US: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“President Reagan’s Message to the Prime Minister: US/Soviet Relations”) [proposed draft reply: “We cannot expect rapid changes. The Soviet system is too rigid for that”] [declassified 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1655 f86
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 5pp
Themes: Defence (arms control), Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), British relations with the US, British relations with the Soviet Union