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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/926
Soviet Union (Relations between the UK and Soviet Union) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 214
Themes: British relations with the Soviet Union, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Defence (general), Security services & intelligence

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Date Value Title
81 Apr 3 Fr Major Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Brezhnev’s message to the Prime Minister”) [MT response - rules out “talks at all levels”] [declassified 2012]
81 May 14 Th Major Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Exposure of KGB operation in Norway”) [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 3 Mo Major Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Anglia”) [message from MT for USSR-distributed magazine] [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 27 Th Major Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Expulsion of the British Cultural Attache in Moscow”) [espionage counter-accusations] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 17 Th Major Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“President Brezhnev’s 75th birthday”) [MT: “I really don’t think we should send a message”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 20 We Major Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Intelligence activities by Warsaw Pact civil aircraft over the United Kingdom) [Joint Intelligence Committee report] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 17 We Major Soviet Union: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Vadim Fedorovich Zadneprovsky”) [handling of his expulsion for spying] [declassified 2012]