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Personal and party papers, Cambridge

US: President Carter phone call to MT (Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [“extremely grave development”] [released 2010]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR 3/1/4 (Personal Message T180A/79T)
Editorial comments: The US version of this conversation is also on the site, from the Carter Library. Read it here.
Importance ranking: Key
Word count: 6pp
Themes: Foreign policy (International organizations), Foreign policy (Middle East), Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), MT messages to and from world leaders