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 81 - 99 of 99
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Major | Cold War: FCO draft (Lady Young statement to House of Lords on Reykjavik) [“We believe it imperative that both sides return to the Geneva Nuclear and Space Talks”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Major | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2619 to FCO (0330Z) (“President Reagan’s television address”) [“we’re closer than ever before to agreements that could lead to a safer world without nuclear weapons”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 14 Tu | Major | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2128 to FCO (2345Z) (“Reykjavik summit: US reactions”) [“Widespread concern among the experts at the US proposal for mutual abolition of all ballistic missiles”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 15 We | Major | Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram 860 to FCO (1400Z) (“Reykjavik summit: German views”) [Teltschik said “perhaps it was just as well that the meeting in Reykjavik had broken up when it did”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 15 We | Major | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1205 to FCO (1200Z) (“Reykjavik meeting: Politburo communique”) [failure “was the stubborn unwillingness of the American administration to create conditions for reaching these agreements”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 15 We | Major | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1209 to FCO (1630Z) (“Reykjavik meeting: Gorbachev’s television statement”) [“performance designed to show the extent of Soviet efforts to secure agreement”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 15 We | Major | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1211 to FCO (1600Z) (“Reykjavik meeting”) [Soviet position on arms control, human rights] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 16 Th | Major | Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram 874 to FCO (1815Z) (“ Karpov’s visit to Bonn”) [prospects of agreements on arms control] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 16 Th | Major | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1213 to FCO (1900Z) (“Reykjavik: INF/SDI linkage”) [contrasting reports on Soviet position] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 17 Fr | Major | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2665 to FCO (2358Z) (“Reykjavik: President’s conversation with the Prime Minister”) [Reagan said the summit “had cleared the way for an agreement on INF despite Soviet insistence on linkage”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 18 Sa | Major | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2666 to FCO (1900Z) (“Reykjavik”) [“President launches SDI as Congressional election campaign issue … Polls show support for the President’s handling of the issue at Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 20 Mo | Major | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2667 to FCO (1915Z) (“Reykjavik”) [Shultz: “the elimination of ballistic missiles was quote a long way down the road unquote”; "Allied military staffs exaggerated the extent of the Warsaw Pact advantage" in conventional weapons in Europe] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 21 Tu | Major | Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (Soviet diplomats) [Price checking reports on alleged American expulsion of 55 Soviet diplomats] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 21 Tu | Key | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1235 to FCO (1134Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [proposal for follow-up meeting between Hartman and Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 21 Tu | Major | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2415 to FCO (1925Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“Lengthy Shultz/Shevardnadze discussions, over-shadowed by hand pounding, and no progress, on Daniloff”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 23 Th | Major | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1243 to FCO (0745Z) (“Expulsion of US diplomats from the Soviet Union and measures to restrict US Embassy activities”) [five declared persona non grata, all locally employed staff to be withdrawn] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 23 Th | Major | Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1245 to FCO (1200Z) (“US/Soviet relations: television address by Gorbachev”) [Gorbachev “insisted that his package of arms control proposals remain on the table”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 28 Tu | Key | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2734 to FCO (2200Z) (“Reykjavik aftermath”) [Acland discussion with Reagan: “The President said that he understood British and European concerns about the imbalance in non-nuclear forces”] [released Dec 2015] |
| 86 Oct 30 Th | Key | Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2768 to FCO (2200Z) (“Post-Reykjavik arms control negotiations”) [“Unsatisfactory discussion with Poindexter”] [released Dec 2015] |