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1987 Jan 5 - 1987 Mar 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2529
Soviet Union (Prime Minister's visit to Soviet Union, March-April 1987) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 603
Any docs withheld? 4

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87 Mar 25 We Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 454 to FCO (0900Z) ("The Soviet Union in March, 1987") [analysis; "deliberately cautious: April May or June could be quite different"; MT visit to Moscow] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 26 Th Major Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow: Bilateral Building Block") [cover letter only] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 26 Th Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow: Despatch on "Perestroika"") [summary & despatch from Ambassador Cartledge] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 26 Th Major Soviet Union: Howe PS note to Charles Powell (Prime Minister's & Foreign Secretary's Visit to Moscow) [draft Howe press releases] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 26 Th Major Soviet Union: Julian Amery MP letter to MT (Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow) ["a few notes which might conceivably be helpful"] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 26 Th Major Soviet Union: President Mubarak message to MT (Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow) [views on the Middle East peace process] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 26 Th Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Soviet Studies Research Centre, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow) [likely Soviet tactics on arms control discussions] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 26 Th Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to the Soviet Union: Miscellaneous Points") [Cambodia; Korea; Gorbachev family; Matisse exhibition] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 26 Th Major Soviet Union: MT letter to Sir Fitzroy Maclean (Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union) [thanks for piece sent in advance of visit] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 26 Th Major Soviet Union: MT message to Prime Ministers Martens, Lubbers & Craxi (FCO tel 79, 1200Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow") ["to let you know how I am approaching my visit"] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 26 Th Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 476 to FCO (1430Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit: Soviet Press Comment") [summary] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 26 Th Major Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 653 to FCO (0040Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow") [analysis of US administration sentiment towards Gorbachev on eve of MT visit] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 26 Th Major Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 654 to FCO (0041Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow: Arms Control") [Charles Powell: "A very important telegram"] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 27 Fr Major Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Tate Gallery's Proposed Exhibition of Matisse Paintings") ["You asked for a note on the... proposal to hold an exhibition... from the Soviet State collections"; MT requested by Tate to float the idea during her talks in Moscow] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 27 Fr Major Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT (Prime Minister's visit to Moscow) [updated programme] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 27 Fr Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to Moscow: Sakharov") ['Time' magazine article by Sakharov, on arms control; cover letter only] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 27 Fr Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("India/Pakistan Nuclear") [MT visit to Moscow: line to take on proposal for concerted US/UK/USSR approach] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 27 Fr Major Soviet Union: President Reagan message to MT (2320Z) (Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow) [thanks to MT for briefing on her intended approach] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 27 Fr Major Soviet Union: UKDel NATO telegram 146 to FCO (1359Z) ("SCG, 27 March") [record of conversation] [released Jul 2017]
87 Mar 27 Fr Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 483 to FCO (0900Z) ("Following is Agreed Text of Press Release") [amendment to protocol to the air services agreement governing services on the Trans-Siberian route between London & Tokyo via Moscow] [released Jul 2017]