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1979 May 4 - 1979 Jun 15
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/212
Defence (Arms control) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2010 Dec 30
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 199
Any docs withheld? 1

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79 May 4 Fr Major Defence: Hunt briefing for MT ("Comprehensive Test Ban") [MT: "Am very unhappy and suspicious about this"] [declassified 2010]
79 May 4 Fr Major Defence: Hunt briefing for MT ("Strategic Arms Limitation Talks") [MT: "I am less complacent [about supposed positive benefits of SALT II] - but will do nothing and say nothing to undermine the authority of the President"] [declassified 2010]
79 May 8 Tu Major Defence: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Comprehensive Test Ban") [MT's comments on Cabinet Office paper] [declassified 2010]
79 May 8 Tu Major Defence: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("SALT") [MT's comments on Cabinet Office paper] [declassified 2010]
79 May 9 We Major Defence: Walden minute to MOD ("SALT") [MT's comments on draft press release] [declassified 2010]
79 May 11 Fr Major Germany: FCO record of conversation (Carrington-FRG Minister of Foreign Affairs Genscher) [SALT, MBFR, TNF] [declassified 2010]
79 May 11 Fr Major Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1081 to No.10 (2052Z) ("SALT") [US Administration anxious about HMG position on SALT II] [declassified 2010]
79 May 11 Fr Major Defence: Carrington minute to MT ("SALT: The Government's Public Response") [declassified 2010]
79 May 11 Fr Major Defence: Hunt minute to MT ("SALT") [HMG's public position on SALT II] [declassified 2010]
79 May 11 Fr Major Defence: MOD letter to No.10 ("Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB)") [views of MOD officials] [declassified 2010]
79 May 14 Mo Major Defence: No.10 minute to FCO ("SALT II: The Government's Public Reaction") [MT comments on Carrington's minute] [declassified 2010]
79 May 18 Fr Major Defence: Cartledge minute to MT ("Your Talks with Mr. Cyrus Vance") [SALT, Rhodesia, Middle East] [declassified 2010]
79 May 21 Mo Major Defence: Hunt minute to MT ("SALT II: Non-Circumvention") [declassified 2010]
79 May 21 Mo Major Defence: Hunt minute to MT ("Comprehensive Test Ban: National Seismic Stations in the United Kingdom and Dependent Territories") [declassified 2010]
79 May 22 Tu Major Defence: FCO letter to No.10 ("Soviet Deployments in the Absence of SALT II") [declassified 2010]
79 May 23 We Major Defence: Carrington minute to MT ("Comprehensive Test Ban Negotiations") [declassified 2010]
79 May 23 We Major Defence: Hunt briefing for MT ("Comprehensive Test Ban: National Seismic Stations") [declassified 2010]
79 May 23 We Major Defence: Hunt minute to MT ("SALT II: Non-circumvention") [declassified 2010]
79 May 23 We Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Secretary of State Vance) [partial record] [SALT II, CTB] [declassified 2010]
79 May 23 We Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Soviet Minister of Foreign Trade Patolichev) [Anglo-Soviet relations, SALT] [declassified 2010]