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 |
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Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
Release date: | 2014 Jan 3 |
Classification: | Top Secret |
Page count: | 369 |
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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] |
83 Nov 25 Fr | Major | Defence: UKDel NATO telegram to FCO ("INF briefing of NAC by Ambassador Nitze") [summary] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Oct 11 Tu | Major | Defence: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Denmark: INF") [threat to Ellemann-Jensen's majority support in Folketing on deployment issue] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 4 Fr | Major | Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Bundestag debate on INF: latest position") [deployment of missiles] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Dec 15 Th | Major | Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF Deployment: Announcement of Pershing II IOCS") [attainment of Initial Operating Capability: timing of public announcement] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Oct 27 Th | Major | Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: forthcoming Bundestag debate") [scheduling delayed as opposition insist on more than one day for the debate] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Oct 14 Fr | Major | Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: German attitudes") [analysis] [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 Sep 30 Fr | Major | Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: timing of Bundestag debate and deployment in the FRG") ["The US are angry about this postponement but will have to investigate the possibility of further compressing the deployment schedule"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Nov 3 Th | Major | Defence: UKE Copenhagen telegram to FCO ("Denmark/INF") [details of Danish Parliament debate on nuclear arms control] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Oct 10 Mo | Major | Defence: UKE Copenhagen telegram to FCO ("Denmark: INF") ["Assuming that the Government survives... it will shortly face two Parliamentary debates on nuclear weapons"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Dec 7 We | Major | Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("East-West relations and INF: Soviet policy and propaganda") [analysis/arms control talks; "lack of direction in the Soviet leadership... the Alliance should do what it can to encourage the Russians to decide in favour of quiet negotiation, not public declamation"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Oct 26 We | Major | Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("INF: Andropov interview with Pravda") [main points; "impossible to count on progress at the [Geneva arms reduction] talks so long as the US kept to its unrealistic and lopsided position"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Sep 23 Fr | Major | Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("INF: new American proposals: Soviet comment") [summary of main points from 22 Sep 'TASS' piece] [declassified Jan 2014] |
83 Dec 5 Mo | Major | Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("INF: Soviet press conference") [arms control talks; Western deployment; Andropov's health] [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 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 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 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 18 Fr | Major | Defence: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Italian Parliamentary debate on INF") [deployment of intermediate range nuclear missiles] [declassified Jan 2014] |