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PDF 83 Sep 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2703 to FCO (2315Z) ("INF") [text of Reagan's statement on moving forward the Geneva negotiations on reduction of intermediate-range nuclear forces] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) negotiations) [forthcoming announcement on "new steps intended to move the negotiations forward"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("INF: new American proposals: Soviet comment") [summary of main points from 22 Sep 'TASS' piece] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("INF: NATO's new negotiating position") [text of MT statement to media: "If a... [satisfactory] agreement cannot be reached soon, NATO will begin the process of new deployments. But even thereafter we remain ready to negotiate"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2765 to FCO (1903Z) ("Prime Minister's visit: Churchill Award speech") ["A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought... we wish to negotiate arms reductions... [and] ensure that world security is not undermined by the further spread of nuclear weapons"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Andropov (Geneva talks on intermediate range nuclear forces) ["British nuclear strategic forces can have no place in any current negotiations at Geneva... If it is necessary for NATO to begin deployment of the new weapons by the end of this year, this can be discontinued or reversed at any time that a satisfactory [arms control] agreement is reached"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKMIS New York telegram 7 to UKE Washington (1700Z) ("President Mitterrand's Speech: Disarmament") [excerpts from speech] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: timing of Bundestag debate and deployment in the FRG") ["The US are angry about this postponement but will have to investigate the possibility of further compressing the deployment schedule"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Heseltine) ["GLCM deployment timetable"; ground-launched cruise missiles: delay due to Bundestag debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to Howe ("The Second GLCM Base: RAF Molesworth") [ground-launched cruise missiles: case for delaying development of the base] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2887 to FCO (2259Z) ("INF") ["Russians have been continuing to threaten to interrupt the negotiations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2878 to FCO (2007Z) ("INF") ["The Bundestag debate... [risks] becoming a fulcrum on which... deployment in all three basing countries would depend"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to Heseltine ("INF") [Howe opposed to Heseltine's inclination to comply with West German request to postpone delivery of ground-launched cruise missiles; No.10 notes that the minute raises issues requiring further discussion] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (deployment of ground-launched cruise missiles in United Kingdom) ["While I am sensitive to the German domestic political situation, I do not believe it would help the Kohl government for us to delay equipment deliveries to the [UK]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Department of Defence record of conversation ("INF") [Heseltine, Weinberger: "aware of the German request to delay the deployment [of ground-launched cruise missiles in the UK]... most concerned"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine) ["INF": timetable for delivery of cruise missiles to UK & W. Germany] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Genscher) ["Genscher's meeting with Gromyko": deployment of cruise missiles in W. Germany] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Copenhagen telegram to FCO ("Denmark: INF") ["Assuming that the Government survives... it will shortly face two Parliamentary debates on nuclear weapons"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to President Reagan (arrival of Cruise missiles in the United Kingdom) [MT conveys gist of her message to Chancellor Kohl - she and Reagan of one mind in wishing to stick to planned delivery timetable; forthcoming Bundestag debate; advises she, Reagan & Kohl discuss problem collectively should Kohl still feel agreed delivery dates impossible] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Chancellor Kohl (arrival of Cruise missiles in the United Kingdom) [MT emphasises that she and Reagan are of one mind in wishing to stick to the planned delivery timetable; notes her appreciation of the significance of the forthcoming Bundestag debate; and advises that she, Reagan & Kohl discuss the problem collectively should Kohl still feel it impossible to stick to the agreed delivery dates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Denmark: INF") [threat to Ellemann-Jensen's majority support in Folketing on deployment issue] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Exchange of messages with Andropov") [advice on making public MT's responses] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: German attitudes") [analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("RAF Greenham Common: Cruise missile deliveries and security arrangements") [details] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Deliveries of Cruise Missiles to RAF Greenham Common - Parliamentary and public statements") [proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("INF: Andropov interview with Pravda") [main points; "impossible to count on progress at the [Geneva arms reduction] talks so long as the US kept to its unrealistic and lopsided position"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine, Whitelaw, Wakeham) ["Cruise missile deployment in the United Kingdom"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Parliamentary Affairs: INF Deployment") [Parliamentary debate; delivery date for missiles] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: forthcoming Bundestag debate") [scheduling delayed as opposition insist on more than one day for the debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("INF Delivery Timetable") ["I am... enclosing for you only a summary of Mr Heseltine's three conversations... with Mr Weinberger on 27th/28th October"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Copenhagen telegram to FCO ("Denmark/INF") [details of Danish Parliament debate on nuclear arms control] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Bundestag debate on INF: latest position") [deployment of missiles] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet attitude to INF negotiations") [Geneva talks: strategy advice in event that Soviets walk out of talks upon deployment of cruise missiles to Europe] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 3364 to FCO (2345Z) ("Ceausescu's letters on INF") [Geneva arms reduction negotiations with Soviet Union] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: new US proposal and Romanian letter") [Geneva arms reduction negotiations with Soviet Union] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("INF numbers") [lines to take on US position for MT meeting with Trudeau] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Romanian proposals on INF") ["The key question is whether the Romanians are playing the maverick in the Warsaw Pact or acting as stalking horse for the Russians"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers) ["INF": deployment and negotiation with Soviet Union on reduction] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (nuclear arms reduction negotiations with the Soviet Union) ["Despite the failure of the Soviet Union to move on the crucial issues... I know you share my belief that we should make every reasonable effort to achieve an agreement this year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Delivery of cruise missiles to RAF Greenham Common") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("INF: Romanian initiative") ["an analysis of the messages which President Ceausescu... has sent to Western leaders"; proposed lines for FCO oral response to Ceausescu message] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Mitterrand: East/West and Defence issues") [Geneva nuclear arms reduction negotiations with Soviet Union; Western Europe defence strategy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Italian Parliamentary debate on INF") [deployment of intermediate range nuclear missiles] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("INF negotiations: Soviet manoeuvring") ["The Soviet motive for turning the truth on its head is not clear yet"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO record of conversation (Geneva negotiations on reduction of Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces) [Soviet Ambassaor Popov, Richard Luce] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (arms reduction negotiations with the Soviet Union) ["the Soviet suggestions are unacceptable. They do not change the consistent Soviet demand for a monopoly in longer-range land-based INF missiles... the latest proposals we have advanced provide a sound basis for an agreement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 19 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 note to MT (Phone call from Prime Minister Craxi to discuss Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces) [scheduling] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: COI London telegram to Information Item Addressees (Statement to House of Commons by Minister of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs: INF negotiations) [UK response to Soviet withdrawal from talks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Andropov letter to MT (deployment of American medium-range nuclear missiles in UK) ["your Government does not value the maintaining of good relations with the Soviet Union... However we would not like to regard the situation arisen as irreversible"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDel NATO telegram to FCO ("INF briefing of NAC by Ambassador Nitze") [summary] [declassified Jan 2014]

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