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1983 Sep 21 - 1984 Jun 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1182
Defence (Deployment of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) in Europe) (Part 4)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 369
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83 Oct 11 Tu Major Defence: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Denmark: INF") [threat to Ellemann-Jensen's majority support in Folketing on deployment issue] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 13 Th Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Exchange of messages with Andropov") [advice on making public MT's responses] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 14 Fr Major Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: German attitudes") [analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 20 Th Major Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("RAF Greenham Common: Cruise missile deliveries and security arrangements") [details] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 20 Th Major Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Deliveries of Cruise Missiles to RAF Greenham Common - Parliamentary and public statements") [proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 26 We Major Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("INF: Andropov interview with Pravda") [main points; "impossible to count on progress at the [Geneva arms reduction] talks so long as the US kept to its unrealistic and lopsided position"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 26 We Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine, Whitelaw, Wakeham) ["Cruise missile deployment in the United Kingdom"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 26 We Major Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Parliamentary Affairs: INF Deployment") [Parliamentary debate; delivery date for missiles] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 27 Th Major Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: forthcoming Bundestag debate") [scheduling delayed as opposition insist on more than one day for the debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 1 Tu Major Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("INF Delivery Timetable") ["I am... enclosing for you only a summary of Mr Heseltine's three conversations... with Mr Weinberger on 27th/28th October"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 3 Th Major Defence: UKE Copenhagen telegram to FCO ("Denmark/INF") [details of Danish Parliament debate on nuclear arms control] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 4 Fr Major Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Bundestag debate on INF: latest position") [deployment of missiles] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 7 Mo Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet attitude to INF negotiations") [Geneva talks: strategy advice in event that Soviets walk out of talks upon deployment of cruise missiles to Europe] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 8 Tu Major Defence: UKE Washington telegram 3364 to FCO (2345Z) ("Ceausescu's letters on INF") [Geneva arms reduction negotiations with Soviet Union] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 8 Tu Major Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: new US proposal and Romanian letter") [Geneva arms reduction negotiations with Soviet Union] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 10 Th Major Defence: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("INF numbers") [lines to take on US position for MT meeting with Trudeau] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 10 Th Major Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Romanian proposals on INF") ["The key question is whether the Romanians are playing the maverick in the Warsaw Pact or acting as stalking horse for the Russians"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 10 Th Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers) ["INF": deployment and negotiation with Soviet Union on reduction] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 14 Mo Major Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (nuclear arms reduction negotiations with the Soviet Union) ["Despite the failure of the Soviet Union to move on the crucial issues... I know you share my belief that we should make every reasonable effort to achieve an agreement this year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 14 Mo Major Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Delivery of cruise missiles to RAF Greenham Common") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]