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 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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Showing items 61 - 73 of 73
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 84 Apr 24 Tu | Major | Defence: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Netherlands/INF") [main points from US Embassy briefing summarising US/Dutch talks since end of March] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 25 We | Major | Defence: FCO telegram to UKE The Hague ("Netherlands/INF") [record of "A meeting of the SCG 'Quint', minus the Netherlands, [which] took place in the US NATO delegation office... to consider... what, if anything, the other basing Allies can do... to help... [Netherlands] towards an acceptable outcome"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Apr 26 Th | Major | Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Netherlands/INF") [MT declines to send proposed draft message to Lubbers regarding his Cabinet's forthcoming decision on cruise missile deployment] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 9 We | Major | Defence: FCO telegram 866 to UKE Washington (1408Z) ("Italy/INF") [texts of Howe/Shultz messages to one another regarding Craxi proposal for "moratorium in NATO INF deployments should the Soviets be willing to return to the negotiating table"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 11 Fr | Major | Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("INF Deployment") [Howe "fully shares... [MT's] concern... [recent] developments can only be seen in Moscow as evidence of the progressive unravelling of the NATO 1979 dual-track decision"; advises personal call to Lubbers] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 16 We | Major | Defence: UKDel NATO telegram to FCO ("Defence Planning Committee, 16 May: Restricted Session") ["dominated by strong appeal to Dutch to stand firm on INF deployment"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 17 Th | Major | Defence: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Netherlands/INF") [deployment of cruise missiles: "Lubbers has always been opposed to an unconditional yes. The next stage is for him to become convinced that the kind of conditional no which he has been contemplating will not secure the survival of his government"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 31 Th | Major | Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1699 to FCO (0335Z) ("Super restricted session of North Atlantic Council meeting - deployment of INF in Holland") ["Van den Broek... spoke today in the general debate... situation... delicate... not certain that the Dutch Cabinet would survive"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 31 Th | Major | Defence: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Netherlands/INF") [deployment of cruise missiles: Dutch Cabinet decision expected imminently; MT advised on timing of call to Lubbers] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 May 31 Th | Major | Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Netherlands and INF") [deployment of cruise missiles: Dutch Cabinet decision expected imminently; MT advised on timing of call to Lubbers] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 1 Fr | Major | Defence: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("The Netherlands/INF") [deployment of cruise missiles in the Netherlands] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 1 Fr | Major | Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers) ["Netherlands and INF": deployment of cruise missiles] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 1 Fr | Major | Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Molesworth: the second GLCM Base") [deployment of Ground Launched Cruise Missiles: "I believe that, before proceeding, we should look again at the alternative option of concentration at RAF Greenham Common"] [declassified Jan 2014] |