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Personal and party papers, Cambridge

Cold War: MT notes (Chernenko funeral) [jottings to aid writing of her memoir] [released Oct 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Venue: Moscow
Source: Thatcher MSS, Churchill Archive Centre: THCR 1/9/18A/ 8 f34
Editorial comments:

MT wrote a memoir of the funeral when she got back to the UK, following the outline given in these notes which were presumably jotted down at some moment during the visit itself for later use. Nothing quite like this has been found anywhere else in her papers. See her 1985 Moscow memoir here.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 5
Themes: Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states)