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Defence: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Public opinion and Defence”) [“worrying ignorance of the basic facts on Soviet armaments”] [declassified 2016]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1690 f5
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 31pp
Themes: Defence (general), Defence (arms control), Public spending & borrowing, Foreign policy (International organizations), Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Labour Party & socialism, British relations with the US, British relations with the Soviet Union