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1979 May 16 - 1979 Nov 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/15
Defence (Modernisation of Theatre Nuclear Forces)(Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2009 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 226
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79 Oct 9 Tue Defence: FCO letter to No.10 (“President Brezhnev’s Speech in Berlin’) [attempt to influence NATO TNF plans] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 11 Thu Defence: UKE Washington telegram 583 to FCO (1820Z) (“US reactions to the Brezhnev speech’) [should not alter NATO thinking on TND] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 11 Thu Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Italian PM’s visit to Bonn: defence issues’) [Cossiga & Schmidt’s view of Brezhnev speech] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 14 Sun Defence: President Brezhnev letter to MT (Berlin speech proposals) [“we do not seek military superiority”] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 17 Wed Defence: UKE Washington telegram 3213 to FCO (1522Z) (“TNF Modernisation”) [Brezhnev proposal & US Senate debate] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 25 Thu Defence: Pym meeting with Dutch Defence Minister (Scholten) in London (record of conversation) [TNF modernisation] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 30 Tue Defence: Ministry of Defence to No.10 (follow-up to PM’s briefing for Bonn) [link between TNF modernisation & arms control] [declassified 2009]