Archive

1986 Jun 2 - 1987 Jan 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2538
Soviet Union (UK/Soviet relations; internal situation) (Part 6)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 218
Any docs withheld? 15

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86 Dec 9 Tu Major Soviet Union: FCO record of conversation (sent 1100Z) (Howe, Shultz, Genscher, Raimond) ["Quadripartite Ministerial Meeting: Chevening: 9 December: Soviet Union/Eastern Europe"] [released Jul 2017]
86 Dec 15 Mo Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1504 to FCO (1930Z) ("Prime Minister's Message: Call on Gorbachev") [Cartledge, Gorbachev] [released Jul 2017]
86 Dec 16 Tu Major Soviet Union: Lord Bethell letter to Howe ("Prime Minister's Message: Call on Gorbachev") [thanks for assistance in securing visa to USSR] [released Jul 2017]
86 Dec 21 Su Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Seminar on the Soviet System") [proposed invitees] [released Jul 2017]
86 Dec 22 Mo Major Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Seminar on the Soviet System) [request that Cabinet Office be represented] [released Jul 2017]
86 Dec 22 Mo Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Seminar on the Soviet Union") [invitees] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jan 5 Mo Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Seminar on the Soviet Union") [invitees; draft Agenda] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jan 6 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Seminar on the Soviet Union") [invitees] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jan 6 Tu Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Seminar on the Soviet Union") [invitees] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jan 15 Th Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Walker PS ("Energy Collaboration with the Soviet Union") [MT "is sceptical of the wisdom of agreeing to a joint communique at the end of her visit... But you will wish to discuss it further with the FCO"] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jan 16 Fr Major Soviet Union: FCO record of conversation ("Prime Minister's Visit") [Llewellyn Smith, Soviet Department, FCO, N.N. Uspensky, 2nd European Department, MFA: agenda for MT talks with Gorbachev; inter-governmental agreements; hotline improvement; bilateral talks] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jan 19 Mo Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 066 to FCO (1445Z) ("Mr Renton's Visit to Moscow, 13-16 January") [summary; record of conversations with Shevardnadze, Dobrynin & others; agenda & programme for MT visit] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jan 28 We Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 (reform of the Soviet political economy) [Rodric Braithwaite report on visit to Moscow: "discussions... [that would] have been impossible even six months ago"; MT: "Fascinating - but more talk than action"] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jan 28 We Minor Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS (Imperial War Museum exchange of tanks with the Soviet Central Armed Forces Museum) [request for advice on proposal to coincide with MT visit to Moscow] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jan 28 We Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 109 to FCO (1600Z) ("Central Committee Plenum: Comment on Gorbachev's Speech") ["frank and hard-hitting... may be preparing the ground for more radical policies"] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jan 29 Th Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 116 to FCO (1300Z) ("Central Committee Plenum") [summary & analysis] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jan 30 Fr Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 (visit of Soviet delegation to UK) [MT advised she no longer needs to meet the delegation; programme] [released Jul 2017]
87 Jan 30 Fr Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 122 to FCO (1230Z) ("Central Committee Plenum: Gorbachev's Closing Speech") [summary & analysis] [released Jul 2017]