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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Selections from this file
Showing items 61 - 80 of 99
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Major | Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US-Soviet meeting in Reykjavik”) [discussion of “tentative deal” on INF] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Major | Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram 283 to FCO (1253Z) (“Reykjavik summit: NAC briefing by Shultz”) [“Shultz said that beneath the disappointment of the moment was a positive sense that possibilities had been opened up for far-reaching arms control agreements”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 12 Su | Major | Cold War: UKE Reykjavik telegram 95 to FCO (2330Z) (“Reagan/Gorbachev meeting”) [Gorbachev said “an historic opportunity had been missed”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Major | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2613 to FCO (0140Z) (“Reykjavik meeting”) [“The US media are baffled by the breakdown of talks”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Major | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2617 to FCO (0250Z) (“Reykjavik summit”) [“a set-back for the President … there is now no immediate prospect of the substantive summit here on which he had set such store”] [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] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Major | Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“US Soviet summit”) [urges she call Reagan - worry that President will “use his television appearance this evening to point [sic] himself further into the corner on SDI”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Major | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Points to make to President Reagan” - phone call) [“It is clearly the Soviet aim to sow dissension in the Alliance”] [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 | Major | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1195 to FCO (1500Z) (“Reykjavik summit: preliminary view from Moscow”) [“Gorbachev put an unexpectedly high price - severe SDI constraint - on agreement in other arms control areas … which me must have known Reagan would be unlikely to pay”] [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 13 Mo | Major | Cold War: Radio Interview for BBC (1200Z) (“Mr Tim Renton on World at One, Monday 13 October 1986”) [“what I think is surprising is that President Reagan and Mr Gorbachev did get so far in discussing important details”] [this copy released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Major | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Reykjavik summit”) [draft message from MT to Reagan: “I want to congratulate you on getting so close to a new range of agreements”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Major | Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Reykjavik summit”) [draft message from MT to Reagan designed “to deny Gorbachev the easy propaganda points for which he may now be looking”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 13 Mo | Major | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting with Karpov”) [“By making agreement on all issues dependent on acceptance of their terms on SDI, they doomed the meeting to failure”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 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 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 14 Tu | Major | Cold War: Press Office bulletin (“Call by Mr Karpov”) [“both sides agreed it was vital to find a way forward”] [released Dec 2015] |