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1985 Jan 3 - 1985 Oct 25
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1647
Soviet Union (UK/Soviet relations) (Part 4)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 341
Any docs withheld? 26

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85 Sep 4 Wed Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Armstrong-'C'-Duff) [decision not to pursue release for HETMAN's family and to expel 25 Soviet GRU agents; line to take for the press; message to Reagan] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 16 Sun Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [Soviet economic system, standard of living, arms control, government of republics, UK miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 16 Sun Cold War: FCO record of conversation (MT-Gorbachev) [Soviet economic system, standard of living, arms control, government of republics, UK miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Feb 14 Tue Cold War: FCO record of conversation (“The Prime Minister’s Meeting with Mr Chernenko in February”) [UKE Moscow to FCO telegram] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 11 Mon Cold War: No.10 letter to FCO (“Death of President Chernenko”) [arrangements to attend funeral] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 12 Tue Cold War: FCO briefing for MT (“Meeting with Mr Gorbachev”) [talks after funeral] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 13 Wed Cold War: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with Mr Gorbachev: speaking note”) [talks after funeral] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 12 Tue Cold War: UKE Moscow to FCO (“Election of Gorbachev”) [Chernenko unmourned] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 13 Wed Cold War: Ingham minute for MT (“Press Conference”) [media see MT as most important visitor at Chernenko funeral] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 14 Thu Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“The funeral of President Chernenko”) [“The organisation has improved with practice. But this time we were only going through the motions”] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 21 Thu Cold War: UKE Moscow despatch to FCO (“The death of Chernenko and Gorbachev’s succession”) [“Despite his pragmatic personal style, [Gorbachev] is a dedicated communist”] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 13 Wed Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT - General-Secretary Gorbachev) [Geneva talks & SDI; Gorbachev: “We must continue to meet and talk to one another and have exchanges of views”] [declassified 2014]
80 Mar 14 Fri Cold War: Howard, Kedourie, Schapiro & Thomas report for MT ("Western Strategy in the Wake of Afghanistan") [declassified 2010]
85 Sep 3 Tue Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 811 to FCO ('Hetman') [family question, free travel area, effect on morale of retaliations] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Aug 28 Wed Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 811 to FCO ("Hetman") [Ambassador's paper for Foreign Secretary - essential to maintain dialogue] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 18 Wed Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1211 to FCO (1325Z) ("Gordiyevskiy") [Ambassador's reservations about making public more detail about exfiltration; Soviet desire to draw line under expulsions and counter-expulsions] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 16 Mon Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1185 to FCO (0900Z) ("Counter Retaliations against Soviet Expulsions") [Ambassador regrets ministers unwilling to follow his advice] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 14 Sat Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1180 to FCO (1905Z) ("Retaliatory Expulsion from Moscow") [analysis of Soviet action - exceeds worst expectations, "savage scale" suggesting they have established the means by which Gordievsky reached the West, but urges ministers to "dispense with the indulgence of counter-retaliation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 14 Sat Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1176 to FCO (1520Z) ("Retaliatory Soviet Expulsions from USSR") [Ambassador summoned to hear Soviet condemnation and list of 25 British representatives to be expelled] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 14 Sat Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1179 to FCO (1800Z) ("Expulsions from Moscow") [TASS statement underplaying expulsions] [declassified Dec 2014]