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1980 Jan 21 - 1980 Feb 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/136
Afghanistan (Soviet invasion) (Part 3)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2010 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 257
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Date Value Title
80 Jan 21 Mo Major Afghanistan: Armstrong briefing for MT ("OD: Afghanistan") [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 21 Mo Major Afghanistan: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Prime Minister Cossiga of Italy) [Afghanistan, Iran and the US] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 23 We Major Afghanistan: MT letter to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 23 We Major Afghanistan: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Attitudes to Afghanistan") [German response to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 24 Th Major Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 (text of Carrington's statement to the House of Lords on Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 29 Tu Major Afghanistan: FCO letter to No.10 ("Quadripartite Meetings") [Italian concerns about their exclusion from meeting of 24/25 January on Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 30 We Major Afghanistan: Armstrong letter to Palliser (message from Brzezinksi to Armstrong) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Jan 30 We Major Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister of Cossiga of Italy) [plenary meeting: US/Italian relations, US-USSR relations, Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 1 Fr Major Afghanistan: Carrington minute to MT ("Afghanistan: The Next Steps") [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 1 Fr Major Afghanistan: FCO letter to MT ("Soviet Foreign Policy After Afghanistan") [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 4 Mo Major Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Middle East, Iran] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 5 Tu Major Afghanistan: Armstrong letter to Palliser (message from Brzezinksi to Armstrong) [Pakistan, Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 6 We Major Afghanistan: Record of telephone conversation (Carrington-Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Olympic Games, French/German relations with the US] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 6 We Major Afghanistan: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Afghanistan: The Next Steps") [economic impact of UK actions against USSR] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 6 We Major Afghanistan: President Giscard letter to MT (French/German response to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) ["we have indicated our willingness to search for means and conditions permitting the maintenance of fruits of detente"] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 10 Su Major Afghanistan: President Carter letter to MT (thanks for support and proposals for the future) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Diego Garcia] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 14 Th Major Afghanistan: MT letter to President Giscard (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan) [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 23 Sa Major Afghanistan: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Brezhnev's Speech: Afghanistan") ["My preliminary assessment is that the the international pressure for withdrawal made some impression"] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 25 Mo Major Afghanistan: Record of conversation (Carrington-US Ambassador to the UK Brewster) [US response to Brezhnev's speech] [declassified 2010]
80 Feb 25 Mo Major Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Schmidt) [extract] [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]