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1983 Sep 21 - 1984 Jun 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 369
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83 Dec 5 Mo Major Defence: MT message to Andropov (Geneva Arms Control Agreement) ["we cannot accept that you should maintain a monopoly of intermediate range missiles in Europe... We deeply regret your decisions to suspend the Geneva negotiations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 30 We Major Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (Ground Launched Cruise Missile delivery programme) [clarification of information provided in Heseltine letter of 24 November] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 28 Mo Major Defence: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("INF: Andropov/Craxi measures") [mutual public recriminations over deployment of missiles in Europe] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 25 Fr Major Defence: UKDel NATO telegram to FCO ("INF briefing of NAC by Ambassador Nitze") [summary] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 24 Th Major Defence: Andropov letter to MT (deployment of American medium-range nuclear missiles in UK) ["your Government does not value the maintaining of good relations with the Soviet Union... However we would not like to regard the situation arisen as irreversible"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 23 We Major Defence: COI London telegram to Information Item Addressees (Statement to House of Commons by Minister of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs: INF negotiations) [UK response to Soviet withdrawal from talks] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 19 Sa Major Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (arms reduction negotiations with the Soviet Union) ["the Soviet suggestions are unacceptable. They do not change the consistent Soviet demand for a monopoly in longer-range land-based INF missiles... the latest proposals we have advanced provide a sound basis for an agreement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 18 Fr Major Defence: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Italian Parliamentary debate on INF") [deployment of intermediate range nuclear missiles] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 18 Fr Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("INF negotiations: Soviet manoeuvring") ["The Soviet motive for turning the truth on its head is not clear yet"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 18 Fr Major Defence: FCO record of conversation (Geneva negotiations on reduction of Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces) [Soviet Ambassaor Popov, Richard Luce] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 17 Th Major Defence: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Mitterrand: East/West and Defence issues") [Geneva nuclear arms reduction negotiations with Soviet Union; Western Europe defence strategy] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 15 Tu Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("INF: Romanian initiative") ["an analysis of the messages which President Ceausescu... has sent to Western leaders"; proposed lines for FCO oral response to Ceausescu message] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 14 Mo Major Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (nuclear arms reduction negotiations with the Soviet Union) ["Despite the failure of the Soviet Union to move on the crucial issues... I know you share my belief that we should make every reasonable effort to achieve an agreement this year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 14 Mo Major Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Delivery of cruise missiles to RAF Greenham Common") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 10 Th Major Defence: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("INF numbers") [lines to take on US position for MT meeting with Trudeau] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 10 Th Major Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Romanian proposals on INF") ["The key question is whether the Romanians are playing the maverick in the Warsaw Pact or acting as stalking horse for the Russians"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 10 Th Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers) ["INF": deployment and negotiation with Soviet Union on reduction] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 8 Tu Major Defence: UKE Washington telegram 3364 to FCO (2345Z) ("Ceausescu's letters on INF") [Geneva arms reduction negotiations with Soviet Union] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 8 Tu Major Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: new US proposal and Romanian letter") [Geneva arms reduction negotiations with Soviet Union] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 7 Mo Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet attitude to INF negotiations") [Geneva talks: strategy advice in event that Soviets walk out of talks upon deployment of cruise missiles to Europe] [declassified Jan 2014]