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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 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 Oct 26 We Major Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Parliamentary Affairs: INF Deployment") [Parliamentary debate; delivery date for missiles] [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 Oct 6 Th Major Defence: Department of Defence record of conversation ("INF") [Heseltine, Weinberger: "aware of the German request to delay the deployment [of ground-launched cruise missiles in the UK]... most concerned"] [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 Oct 7 Fr Major Defence: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Genscher) ["Genscher's meeting with Gromyko": deployment of cruise missiles in W. Germany] [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 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 Jan 16 Mo Major Defence: Heseltine minute to Howe ("INF - Shorter Range Systems") [role in Long Range INF negotiations; respective numbers of SS20, SS12/22, SS1/23 Soviet missiles deployed] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 4 Tu Major Defence: Heseltine minute to Howe ("The Second GLCM Base: RAF Molesworth") [ground-launched cruise missiles: case for delaying development of the base] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 20 Th Major Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Deliveries of Cruise Missiles to RAF Greenham Common - Parliamentary and public statements") [proposals] [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]
83 Oct 20 Th Major Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("RAF Greenham Common: Cruise missile deliveries and security arrangements") [details] [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 1 Tu Major Defence: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("INF Delivery Timetable") ["I am... enclosing for you only a summary of Mr Heseltine's three conversations... with Mr Weinberger on 27th/28th October"] [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 Oct 5 We Major Defence: Howe minute to Heseltine ("INF") [Howe opposed to Heseltine's inclination to comply with West German request to postpone delivery of ground-launched cruise missiles; No.10 notes that the minute raises issues requiring further discussion] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 13 Th Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Exchange of messages with Andropov") [advice on making public MT's responses] [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]
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]