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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)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 369
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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 Oct 6 Th Major Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (deployment of ground-launched cruise missiles in United Kingdom) ["While I am sensitive to the German domestic political situation, I do not believe it would help the Kohl government for us to delay equipment deliveries to the [UK]"] [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]
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 25 Fr Major Defence: UKDel NATO telegram to FCO ("INF briefing of NAC by Ambassador Nitze") [summary] [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 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]
84 Mar 1 Th Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by Mr Lubbers: INF") [lines to take for MT to call to Lubbers in event that Dutch Cabinet decides on reduced deployment of cruise missiles] [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 Oct 10 Mo Major Defence: MT letter to President Reagan (arrival of Cruise missiles in the United Kingdom) [MT conveys gist of her message to Chancellor Kohl - she and Reagan of one mind in wishing to stick to planned delivery timetable; forthcoming Bundestag debate; advises she, Reagan & Kohl discuss problem collectively should Kohl still feel agreed delivery dates impossible] [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]
83 Sep 21 We Major Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2703 to FCO (2315Z) ("INF") [text of Reagan's statement on moving forward the Geneva negotiations on reduction of intermediate-range nuclear forces] [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]
83 Oct 26 We Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine, Whitelaw, Wakeham) ["Cruise missile deployment in the United Kingdom"] [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 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]
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 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 Jun 1 Fr Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers) ["Netherlands and INF": deployment of cruise missiles] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 23 Mo Major Defence: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Netherlands/INF") [Dutch Cabinet decision imminent on deployment of cruise missiles; advice on timing of MT call to Lubbers] [declassified Jan 2014]