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Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1800Z) ("Terms of Reference for High-Level USG Mission to Europe on Soviet Sanctions") (NSC 0043) [Siberian gas pipeline; Reagan: "I must take the blame for having been careless. ... Maggie Thatcher has made me realise that I have been wrong"] [declassified Nov 2005]

Document type: Declassified documents
Venue: White House
Source: Reagan Library (NSC Meetings Box 5)
Editorial comments:

1300-1337 EST = 1800-1837 GMT. The attendance list surely errs by including "William A. Buckley". The Under-Secretary in question was his elder brother, James L. Buckley.

Read all other NSC minutes from the Reagan Administration on this site.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 6pp
Themes: Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), Foreign policy (Central & Eastern Europe), Defence (general), Energy, Trade, Science & technology