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 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 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 Price (record of MT’s meeting with Karpov”) [for Price’s eyes only] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Key | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call on Reykjavik summit) ["Reagan said he had put forward a radical proposal under which the US would guarantee not to deploy a strategic defence system for ten years in return for an undertaking to eliminate all US and Soviet nuclear weapons over that same period"] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Key | Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call) ["particularly sensitive" points on ABM, Reagan's pride in proposal to eliminate nuclear weapons in ten years; President's admiration for Tom Clancy book] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Key | Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram 858 to FCO (1815Z) (“Reykjavik: initial German reactions”) [“the door is not closed”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 21 Tu | Key | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1235 to FCO (1134Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [proposal for follow-up meeting between Hartman and Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 10 We | Key | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2314 to FCO (1545Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Weinberger: 9 September”) [“A disturbing insight into right-wing attitudes on arms control”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 28 Tu | Key | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2734 to FCO (2200Z) (“Reykjavik aftermath”) [Acland discussion with Reagan: “The President said that he understood British and European concerns about the imbalance in non-nuclear forces”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 30 Th | Key | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2768 to FCO (2200Z) (“Post-Reykjavik arms control negotiations”) [“Unsatisfactory discussion with Poindexter”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Sep 30 Tu | Major | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet Relations: Gorbachev’s approach march to a summit”) [“the indications are that he sees the potential gains as outweighing the risks”] [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] |
| 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] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Major | Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet summit”) [press points on outcome of Reykjavik] [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 Jul 28 Mo | Major | Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US/Soviet summit”) [Ambassador expects summit to be held in November] [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] |