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 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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Showing items 61 - 73 of 73
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Title |
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| 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 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 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] |
| 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 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 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] |
| 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] |
| 83 Sep 26 Mo | Major | Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2765 to FCO (1903Z) ("Prime Minister's visit: Churchill Award speech") ["A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought... we wish to negotiate arms reductions... [and] ensure that world security is not undermined by the further spread of nuclear weapons"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Oct 5 We | Major | Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2878 to FCO (2007Z) ("INF") ["The Bundestag debate... [risks] becoming a fulcrum on which... deployment in all three basing countries would depend"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Oct 5 We | Major | Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2887 to FCO (2259Z) ("INF") ["Russians have been continuing to threaten to interrupt the negotiations"] [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 Sep 26 Mo | Major | Defence: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("INF: NATO's new negotiating position") [text of MT statement to media: "If a... [satisfactory] agreement cannot be reached soon, NATO will begin the process of new deployments. But even thereafter we remain ready to negotiate"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 29 Th | Major | Defence: UKMIS New York telegram 7 to UKE Washington (1700Z) ("President Mitterrand's Speech: Disarmament") [excerpts from speech] [declassified Jan 2014] |