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PREM19/1182
Defence (Deployment of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) in Europe) (Part 4)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 369
Themes: Foreign policy - theory and process, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), Defence (general), Defence (arms control), British relations with Italy, British relations with Netherlands, British relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, British relations with the Soviet Union, British relations with the US

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Date Value Title
84 Apr 24 Tu Major Defence: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Netherlands/INF") [main points from US Embassy briefing summarising US/Dutch talks since end of March] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 25 We Major Defence: FCO telegram to UKE The Hague ("Netherlands/INF") [record of "A meeting of the SCG 'Quint', minus the Netherlands, [which] took place in the US NATO delegation office... to consider... what, if anything, the other basing Allies can do... to help... [Netherlands] towards an acceptable outcome"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 26 Th Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Netherlands/INF") [MT declines to send proposed draft message to Lubbers regarding his Cabinet's forthcoming decision on cruise missile deployment] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 9 We Major Defence: FCO telegram 866 to UKE Washington (1408Z) ("Italy/INF") [texts of Howe/Shultz messages to one another regarding Craxi proposal for "moratorium in NATO INF deployments should the Soviets be willing to return to the negotiating table"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 11 Fr Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("INF Deployment") [Howe "fully shares... [MT's] concern... [recent] developments can only be seen in Moscow as evidence of the progressive unravelling of the NATO 1979 dual-track decision"; advises personal call to Lubbers] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 16 We Major Defence: UKDel NATO telegram to FCO ("Defence Planning Committee, 16 May: Restricted Session") ["dominated by strong appeal to Dutch to stand firm on INF deployment"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 17 Th Major Defence: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Netherlands/INF") [deployment of cruise missiles: "Lubbers has always been opposed to an unconditional yes. The next stage is for him to become convinced that the kind of conditional no which he has been contemplating will not secure the survival of his government"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 31 Th Major Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1699 to FCO (0335Z) ("Super restricted session of North Atlantic Council meeting - deployment of INF in Holland") ["Van den Broek... spoke today in the general debate... situation... delicate... not certain that the Dutch Cabinet would survive"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 31 Th Major Defence: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Netherlands/INF") [deployment of cruise missiles: Dutch Cabinet decision expected imminently; MT advised on timing of call to Lubbers] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 31 Th Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Netherlands and INF") [deployment of cruise missiles: Dutch Cabinet decision expected imminently; MT advised on timing of call to Lubbers] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 1 Fr Major Defence: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("The Netherlands/INF") [deployment of cruise missiles in the Netherlands] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 1 Fr Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers) ["Netherlands and INF": deployment of cruise missiles] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 1 Fr Major Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Molesworth: the second GLCM Base") [deployment of Ground Launched Cruise Missiles: "I believe that, before proceeding, we should look again at the alternative option of concentration at RAF Greenham Common"] [declassified Jan 2014]