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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 4 Fr Major Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Bundestag debate on INF: latest position") [deployment of missiles] [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 Oct 14 Fr Major Defence: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("INF: German attitudes") [analysis] [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]
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]
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 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 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 Sep 27 Tu Major Defence: MT letter to Andropov (Geneva talks on intermediate range nuclear forces) ["British nuclear strategic forces can have no place in any current negotiations at Geneva... If it is necessary for NATO to begin deployment of the new weapons by the end of this year, this can be discontinued or reversed at any time that a satisfactory [arms control] agreement is reached"] [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]
83 Dec 5 Mo Major Defence: MT message to Andropov (Geneva Arms Control Agreement) ["we cannot accept that you should maintain a monopoly of intermediate range missiles in Europe... We deeply regret your decisions to suspend the Geneva negotiations"] [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 10 Th Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers) ["INF": deployment and negotiation with Soviet Union on reduction] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 20 Fr Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Strategic co-operation with the French") [lines to take for meeting with Mitterrand] [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 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]
84 Apr 26 Th Major Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Netherlands/INF") [MT declines to send proposed draft message to Lubbers regarding his Cabinet's forthcoming decision on cruise missile deployment] [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 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 Oct 7 Fr Major Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine) ["INF": timetable for delivery of cruise missiles to UK & W. Germany] [declassified Jan 2014]