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Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 593 to FCO (1310Z) (“Gorbachev meeting with Hammer and Gale on 15 May”) [Gorbachev “accused official Washington of exploiting the accident to discredit the Soviet Union”] [released Dec 2015]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1759 f279
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Civil liberties, British relations with the Soviet Union, British relations with the US, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy - theory and process, Defence (general), Defence (arms control), Energy