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1982 Apr 21 - 1984 May 14
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1393
Soviet Union (UK/Soviet relations) (Part 2)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2018 Dec 28
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 275
Any docs withheld? 7

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84 May 11 Fri Soviet Union: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (1605Z) ("Soviet concern about a surprise NATO attack") [MT agrees paper to be passed to US on confidence-building measures relating to nuclear command post exercises] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 May 10 Thu Soviet Union: Michael Alison minute to MT (Lord Soames' report on his visit to the USSR) [copy attached] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 May 10 Thu Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Contacts with the Soviet Union") [summary of scheduled & prospective meetings] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Apr 16 Mon Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UK/Soviet Relations") ["revised guidelines for contacts between British Ministers and Soviet representatives in London"; "other areas where we are moving forward... [towards] increased contact at all levels"] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Apr 16 Mon Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Ministerial Contacts with the Soviet Union") ["social and business contacts between Ministers and the Russians in London... modified guidelines"; Ministerial visits to USSR] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Apr 11 Wed Soviet Union: Howe minute to MT ("Proposed Visit to the Soviet Union by the Secretary of State for Energy") [suggestions regarding timing of visit; MT notes that dealing with coal strike must be top priority] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Apr 10 Tue Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Heseltine, Whitelaw, Robert Armstrong, Patrick Wright, "C") ["Soviet concern about a surprise NATO attack"] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Apr 9 Mon Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Murray ('Encounter' interview with Zinoviev) [MT request for copy] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Apr 9 Mon Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet 'Peace' Letters") [advice regarding possible reply to Tereshkova letter published alongside MT's own in 'Komsomolskaya Pravda'] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Apr 9 Mon Soviet Union: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet Fears of a Preemptive Nuclear Attack") [MT request to see American studies on likely course of developments on the ground in the early stages of a nuclear war] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Mar 26 Mon Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Soviet Union: concern about a surprise NATO attack") [MT requests meeting to discuss "disturbing" intelligence report] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Mar 14 Wed Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Mr William Ross (Soviet 'Peace' letters) [request for names & address of the Soviet citizens who wrote to MT, from Linlithgow Churches Peace Concern group] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Mar 13 Tue Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 330 to FCO (0747Z) ("Peace letters") [text of Chair of Soviet Women's Committee response to MT letter: both letters published simultaneously in 'Komsomolskaya Pravda'] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Mar 9 Fri Soviet Union: Lord Thomas minute to MT ("Conversations with the Russians") [note by Soviet Group of the Centre for Policy Studies: advocates meeting with new Soviet leadership] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Feb 29 Wed Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Keston College: Mrs Alyona Kojevnikov") [feedback following distribution of report on visit to USSR: "lively, interesting and perceptive"] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Feb 20 Mon Soviet Union: John Coles minute to MT (Lord Thomas: invitations to visit Russia and Argentina) [MT approves of visit to Russia] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Feb 17 Fri Soviet Union: John Coles minute to MT (""Peace" letters from Soviet citizens") [handling of replies] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Jan 30 Mon Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("'Peace' letters from Soviet citizens") [handling of replies] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Jan 19 Thu Soviet Union: FCO record of conversation (1900Z) (Howe, Gromyko) [trade & economic relations; US negotiating behaviour; arms control; human rights] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Jan 19 Thu Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Sixtieth Anniversary of the Establishment of Anglo-Soviet Diplomatic Relations") [proposals for marking the anniversary] [declassified Dec 2018]