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Personal and party papers, Cambridge

Cold War: MT memoir (“Return to Moscow”) [personal account of Chernenko’s funeral] [released 2015]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: THCR 1/20/5
Editorial comments:

MT seems to have written some contemporary jottings as a basis of the memoir.

Importance ranking: Key
Word count: 15pp (32pp including interleaved transcript)
Themes: Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), Defence (general), Security services & intelligence, Leadership