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1985 Dec 1 - 1986 Oct 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1759
Foreign Policy (East/West relations) (Part 6)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2015 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 329
Any docs withheld? 4

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86 May 28 We Major Cold War: “US scraps subs for Salt treaty” [Reagan “warned Moscow he will no longer abide by the limit of the Salt 2 treaty if the Russians continue to violate it”]
86 Oct 12 Su Major Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“Reykjavik meeting”) [proposed meeting with Soviet emissary Karpov] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 12 Su Major Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US-Soviet meeting in Reykjavik”) [discussion of “tentative deal” on INF] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 3 Fr Major Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US/Soviet meeting in Reykjavik: message to President Reagan”) [“I think the President’s eyes may glaze a bit”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jul 28 Mo Major Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US/Soviet summit”) [Ambassador expects summit to be held in November] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 2 Mo Major Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Draft Declaration on East-West Relations”) [“The text is better with the passages in square brackets included, but we could live without them”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 13 Mo Major Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“US Soviet summit”) [urges she call Reagan - worry that President will “use his television appearance this evening to point [sic] himself further into the corner on SDI”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 14 Tu Key Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [“Karpov said that the Soviet side had gone to Reykjavik in the hope of achieving concrete results”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 14 Tu Key Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [MT “said she had been very disturbed by Soviet tactics at Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 13 Mo Major Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting with Karpov”) [“By making agreement on all issues dependent on acceptance of their terms on SDI, they doomed the meeting to failure”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 13 Mo Major Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Points to make to President Reagan” - phone call) [“It is clearly the Soviet aim to sow dissension in the Alliance”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 21 Tu Major Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (Soviet diplomats) [Price checking reports on alleged American expulsion of 55 Soviet diplomats] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 14 Tu Key Cold War: Charles Powell minute to Price (record of MT’s meeting with Karpov”) [for Price’s eyes only] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 11 We Major Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“Message to Mr. Gorbachev”) [Howe still wants to send message] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 13 Fr Major Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“United States position on nuclear arms control and SDI”) [MT “suspects that the United States might not ultimately insist on a 50 percent cut in throw weight, a ban on the upgrading of the SS-18 or a ban on Soviet GCLMs”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Sep 30 Tu Major Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet pre-summit”) [advice to Reagan] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 9 Th Major Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet pre-summit”) [MT’s message to Reagan on Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 1 Su Major Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet Summit”) [MT on proposed draft to Gorbachev: “not enough new to say of substance at present to warrant a message”] [released Dec 2015]
86 Oct 13 Mo Major Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet summit”) [press points on outcome of Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015]
86 Sep 10 We Major Cold War: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Daniloff”) [“A Summit is now in jeopardy”] [released Dec 2015]