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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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83 Oct 4 Tue Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1118 to FCO (0645Z) ("Soviet Anti-War Demonstration") [report on march & publication of letters in Soviet press] [declassified Dec 2018]
83 Oct 12 Wed Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1149 to FCO (1414Z) ("Unofficial Soviet Peace Group") [Soviet authorities' prevention of the handing over of MT's reply to Group; arrests; UK government protest] [declassified Dec 2018]
83 Oct 13 Thu Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible Call by Sir I Sutherland on the Prime Minister") [proposed date] [declassified Dec 2018]
83 Oct 18 Tue Soviet Union: MT letter to Campbell-Savours MP (Moscow Group for the Establishment of Trust Between the USSR and the US) [reported arrests and prevention of MT's reply to the Group being handed over] [declassified Dec 2018]
83 Nov 8 Tue Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo/Soviet Relations") [new date for postponed Rifkind/Kornienko talks] [declassified Dec 2018]
83 Dec 5 Mon Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet Unofficial Peace Movement") [attempts to hand over MT reply; press release; protest to Russians] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Jan 10 Tue Soviet Union: John Coles minute to MT ("I Vote for Peace" cuttings from Soviet citizens) [handling of response] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Jan 12 Thu Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Arms Control: TGWU reply to message from Soviet construction workers' unions) [copies of correspondence] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Jan 13 Fri Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Meeting with the Soviet Foreign Minister") [pros & cons of meetings in London or Moscow respectively; MT's preference for London but leaves it to Howe's judgement] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Jan 13 Fri Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Anglo-Soviet relations) [assessment of Soviet thinking behind the feeding to 'Times' newspaper of speculation on possible high-level talks] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Jan 17 Tue Soviet Union: David Steel MP letter to Edward du Cann MP (visit to Soviet Union) ["I propose to sound out the Russians on starting up a European contribution to the East/West dialogue at Parliamentary level"] [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]
84 Jan 30 Mon Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("'Peace' letters from Soviet citizens") [handling of replies] [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 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 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 Mar 5 Mon Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mr Chernenko's Speech on 2 March") [copy sent to MT: advice on the need for a reply] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Mar 5 Mon Soviet Union: Conservative Research Department Brief ("Relations with the Soviet Union") [brief for Parliamentary Debate on 9 March] [declassified Dec 2018]
84 Mar 7 Wed Soviet Union: Soviet Ambassador to the UK Popov letter to Howe (message from the Prime Minister on the death of Andropov) [thanks for condolences] [declassified Dec 2018]