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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1495
Foreign Policy (East/West relations) (Part 5)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 424
Any docs withheld? 7

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85 Nov 22 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Howe letter to Shultz ("US Arms Sales to Argentina") [UK concerns about security implications for Falklands] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 6 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Geneva Arms Control Talks: Western Strategy") [cover minute for FCO paper] [released Dec 2014]
85 Aug 1 Th Major Foreign Policy: Howe press conference transcript ("Press Conference Given by the Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, in Helsinki, on Thursday, August 1, 1985") [Meeting of Foreign Ministers: 10th anniversary of Helsinki Final Act: human rights & East/West relations; Howe's account of his meetings with Shultz and Shevarnadze] [released Dec 2014]
85 Oct 4 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Geneva Talks: Soviet Counter-Proposals") [preliminary analysis & advice on UK response] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 29 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("US/Soviet Summit") [MT dismisses FCO's proposed draft message to Gorbachev regarding outcomes; "I will try to draft another if time permits"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 28 Th Major Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (US/Soviet Summit: UN meeting to discuss outcomes) [cover note for background papers; lines to take] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 4 Mo Major Foreign Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("President Reagan's Briefing of NATO") ["your voice will count for more than any other after the de-briefing... we should together consider the kind of media programme... you should undertake"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 27 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Ministry of Defence briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with US National Security Advisor McFarlane) [Mobile Subscriber Equipment: case for UK firm Plessey's bid (Ptarmigan) over rival French bid for contract to supply combat phones to US army] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 2 Sa Major Foreign Policy: MT letter to President Reagan ("President Reagan's Briefing of NATO") [MT signs off on Charles Powell's amendments to FCO draft, highlighting her recent meeting with Kadar & his insights into Gorbachev's thinking on arms control/SDI] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 20 Fr Major Foreign Policy: MT letter to President Reagan (Prime Minister's meeting with US National Security Advisor) ["I am just completing a visit to Egypt and Jordan and wanted to let you know personally straight way how worried I am by the absence of progress in following up King Hussein's peace initiative"; proposals] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 12 Th Major Foreign Policy: MT letter to President Reagan (US/Soviet Summit in Geneva, November 1985) [countering Gorbachev 'propaganda' campaign; stresses need to aim for substantial outcomes from Summit; SDI/arms control; human rights; Afghanistan; McFarlane pre-meeting with MT] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 19 Tu Major Foreign Policy: MT letter to Secretary General of NATO ("Reagan/Gorbachev Summit: News Blackout") [President Reagan to address NATO meeting on outcomes of US/Soviet summit: handling of the meeting] [released Dec 2014]
85 Oct 3 Th Major Foreign Policy: MT message to President Reagan (1040Z) (US/Soviet Talks) [meeting of the seven economic summit countries to discuss Reagan's forthcoming meeting with Gorbachev] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 22 Fr Major Foreign Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit of Mr McFarlane") [proposed questions to put to US National Security Advisor, following his recount of US/Soviet summit] [released Dec 2014]
85 Jul 31 We Major Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("US/Soviet Summit") [request for draft of an MT letter to Reagan expressing UK thoughts on the forthcoming Summit] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 23 Mo Major Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS (Prime Minister's meeting with US National Security Advisor) [request for briefing] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 4 We Major Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["US/Soviet Summit": MT message to Reagan in advance of Summit] [released Dec 2014]
85 Nov 23 Sa Key Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, McFarlane, Price) ["US/Soviet Summit: Briefing by Mr McFarlane"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 28 Sa Major Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert McFarlane) [summary note of topics discussed, with records-by-topic attached] [released Dec 2014]
85 Sep 17 Tu Major Foreign Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (1529Z) (US/Soviet Summit in Geneva, November 1985) [human rights; SDI/arms control negotiations; McFarlane pre-meeting with MT] [released Dec 2014]