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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 14 Fr Major Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: German attitudes") [analysis] [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 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 Nov 4 Fr Major Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Bundestag debate on INF: latest position") [deployment of missiles] [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 25 Fr Major Defence: UKDel NATO telegram to FCO ("INF briefing of NAC by Ambassador Nitze") [summary] [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]
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 Sep 22 Th Major Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) negotiations) [forthcoming announcement on "new steps intended to move the negotiations forward"] [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 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]
84 Jun 1 Fr Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers) ["Netherlands and INF": deployment of cruise missiles] [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 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]