1985 Jan 2 - 1985 Apr 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1444
Defence (Ballistic missile defence: United States Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI); UK participation in research programme) (Part 2)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 225 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 85 Jan 7 Mo | Major | Defence: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Briefing for the Prime Minister on BMD-SDI”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 8 Tu | Major | Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Professor Norman, MOD Chief Scientist) [Strategic Defence Initiative] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 30 We | Major | Defence: Hugh Thomas minute to MT (“Dinner with Doctor Keywirth”) [the SDI research programme] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 30 We | Major | Defence: Robert McFarlane message to MT (SDI) [forwards letters from Weinberger and Abrahamson] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 31 Th | Major | Defence: MOD letter to No.10 (“Strategic Defence Initiative”) [technical aspects from published sources] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 31 Th | Major | Defence: MOD letter to No.10 (“Strategic Defence Initiative: Effectiveness Against Cruise Missiles”) [MOD remain sceptical] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Jan 31 Th | Major | Defence: MT messages to Weinberger, Abrahamson and McFarlane (SDI) [thanks for briefing on technical progress] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 6 We | Major | Defence: Hugh Thomas minute to MT (breakfast with Henry Kissinger: SDI, arms control) [Kissinger: SDI "the only way out of our nuclear dilemma"] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 12 Tu | Major | Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO (“German Views on SDI”) [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 15 Fr | Major | Defence: Heseltine minute to MT (“Strategic Defence Initiative: Mr. Weinberger’s Views”) [conversations at Ditchley Park] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 18 Mo | Major | Defence: Robert Armstrong minute to No.10 (Cabinet Office note on SDI research) [benefits of collaboration with US research whether or not SDI succeeds] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Feb 28 Th | Major | Defence: FCO letter to No.10 (“SDI Testing-ABM Treaty”) [timetable for testing being brought forward] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 26 Tu | Major | Defence: Caspar Weinberger letter to Michael Heseltine (allied participation in SDI research programme) [requests response within 60 days] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 26 Tu | Major | Defence: Secretary of State Shultz message to Foreign Secretary Howe (SDI) ['distressed' at media detecting "serious differences" of approach with US from Howe's 15 March lecture] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 26 Tu | Major | Defence: COI London to FCO (“NATO Supports SDI Research”) [press coverage of Nuclear Planning Group meeting] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 27 We | Major | Defence: Powell note to MT (Heseltine’s proposal for joint European response on SDI research) ["he wants [to] build up a body of opinion sceptical of SDI"] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 27 We | Major | Defence: Heseltine minute to MT (“Strategic Defence Initiative”) [Weinberger like Shultz now canvassing possibility of US withdrawal from ABM Treaty] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 28 Th | Major | Defence: No.10 minute to MT (“Strategic Defence Initiative”) [Powell explains his policy on notetaking and circulation; MT-Bush meeting in Moscow, US position on ABM] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 29 Fr | Major | Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1106 to FCO (0105Z) (“SDI: Shultz Speech”) [arms control: objectives and prospects] [declassified 2014] |
| 85 Mar 29 Fr | Major | Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1107 to FCO (0110Z) (“Shultz Austin Speech: SDI”) [key passages] [declassified 2014] |