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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1394
Soviet Union (UK/Soviet relations; visit to UK by Mikhail Gorbachev, member of Politburo, December 1984; meeting with Prime Minister) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 411
Any docs withheld? 3

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Date Value Title
84 Dec 12 Wed Soviet Union: UKE Moscow to FCO ("US/Soviet Relations") [recent US/USSR contacts] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 13 Thu Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Lunch for Mr Gorbachev") [speaking notes for MT] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 13 Thu Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT ("Gorbachev Visit: Meeting with Outside Experts") [brief; extensive MT annotations] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 14 Fri Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit of Mr Gorbachev: Lunch and Discussions with the Prime Minister at Chequers: 16 December") [further briefs and other documents] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 16 Sun Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [private lunchtime conversation: trade, USSR economy, human rights, miners' strike, communism and free enterprise] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 16 Sun Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [afternoon meeting: East/West relations, arms control, Anglo-Soviet relations] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 16 Sun Soviet Union: General Secretary Chernenko message to MT (Anglo-Soviet relations and the arms race) [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 16 Sun Soviet Union: Powell note to MT ("Gorbachev") [notes for MT speech at lunch; Marx joke: "If only Karl had made Capital...instead of just writing about it"] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 17 Mon Soviet Union: No.10 letter to FCO ("Gorbachev's Visit") [briefing allies on Gorbachev meeting] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 18 Tue Soviet Union: MAFF record of conversation (Jopling-Gorbachev) [agriculture, trade] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 19 Wed Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 3806 to FCO (2345Z) ("Gorbachev's Visit to Britain: US Press Coverage") [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 20 Thu Soviet Union: FCO to Hong Kong Government ("Gorbachev Visit") ["curious episode" during Gorbachev's visit: unannounced visit to No.10] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 20 Thu Soviet Union: FCO to Hong Kong Government ("Gorbachev Visit") [account of Luce's dinner conversation with Gorbachev] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 20 Thu Soviet Union: Howe message to US Secretary of State Shultz (Gorbachev's visit to the UK) [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 22 Sat Soviet Union: MT message to Reagan (account of MT's meeting with Gorbachev) [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 22 Sat Foreign Policy: MT message to Reagan (account of MT's meeting with Gorbachev) [released Dec 2014]
85 Jan 3 Thu Soviet Union: Account of Gorbachev's visit to the UK by K. A. Bishop, interpreter ("Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev: A Personal Assessment of the Man during his Visit to the United Kingdom, 15-21 December 1984") [declassified 2014]