PREM19/1973: Soviet Union (Human rights and the position of dissidents in the Soviet Union: policy towards the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)) (Part 1)

Source:	TNA, PREM19 series
Release date:	2016 Feb 19
Classification:	Confidential
Page count:	324
Themes:	Civil liberties, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), Defence (general)

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Showing items 21 - 40 of 72

Date	Value	Title
81 Feb 11 We	Minor	Cold War: Ann Bergson-Romyn letter to MT (Raoul Wallenberg) [circumstances of Wallenberg's disappearance] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Feb 12 Th	Minor	Cold War: MT letter to John Eades (Yuri Orlov) [British members of CERN Council will raise Orlov's case] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Feb 16 Mo	Major	Cold War: UK Delegation Madrid telegram 12 to FCO (1055Z) ("CSCE Review Meeting: State of Play") [security negotiation, human rights cases, arms control] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Feb 26 Th	Minor	Cold War: Tom Lantos letter to MT (Raoul Wallenberg) [re-investigation of circumstances of Wallenberg's disappearance] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Mar 9 Mo	Minor	Cold War: Ann Bergson-Romyn letter to MT (Raoul Wallenberg) [circumstances of Wallenberg's disappearance] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Mar 10 Tu	Minor	Cold War: Nina Lagergren letter to MT (Raoul Wallenberg) [re-investigation of circumstances of Wallenberg's disappearance] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Apr 24 Fr	Major	Cold War: FCO briefing ("Mr Blaker's meeting with Mrs Avital Shcharansky: Monday, 27 April 1981: 1500 hours") [Shcharansky's condition, attitude of UK and Soviet governments] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Apr 27 Mo	Minor	Cold War: Peter Blaker note (meeting with Avital Shcharansky) [government will continue to draw attention to Mr Shcharansky plight] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Apr 28 Tu	Major	Cold War: Michael Alexander minute to Carrington PS (meeting with Avital Shcharansky) [expectation of campaign by Jewish pressure groups] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Apr 29 We	Major	Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Avital Shcharansky) [MT doubted whether it would be helpful to pursue Shcharansky's case in public] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 May 1 Fr	Minor	Cold War: Bryan Forbes letter to MT (human rights in Soviet Union) [worsening treatment of Jewish dissidents] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 May 13 We	Minor	Cold War: International Representation for the Council of Evangelical Baptist Churches of the Soviet Union news release ("KGB Rushes Trial of Baptist Pastor Dmitri Minyakov") [illegal investigation, further arrests] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 May 19 Tu	Major	Cold War: Lord Flowers letter to MT (Anatoly Shcharansky) [concern at persecution of Jewish scientists in Soviet Union] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 May 25 Mo	Minor	Cold War: John Eades letter to MT (Yuri Orlov) [health of dissident mathematician Shcharansky, request to intervene] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 May 29 Fr	Major	Cold War: MT letter to Lord Flowers (Anatoly Shcharansky) [CSCE process forces Soviet authorities to defend policies before a critical audience] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Jun 1 Mo	Major	Cold War: FCO notes ("CSCE Madrid Meeting") [wording of final document in areas of human rights, military security, human contacts and information] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Jun 12 Fr	Minor	Cold War: FCO letter to John Eades (Yuri Orlov) [British members of CERN Council will take soundings on possible resolution] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Aug 5 We	Minor	Cold War: FCO letter to John Eades ("Professor Yuri Orlov") [insufficient support for a CERN Council resolution] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Aug 25 Tu	Minor	Cold War: International Representation for the Council of Evangelical Baptist Churches of the Soviet Union news release ("Five Years in Labor Camp for Preaching the Gospel") [trial of Minyakov] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Oct 3 Sa	Minor	Cold War: Arthur Goldberg letter to MT (Madrid CSCE review meeting) [implementation of Helsinki Final Act] [declassified Feb 2016]

PREM19/1973Soviet Union (Human rights and the position of dissidents in the Soviet Union: policy towards the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)) (Part 1)

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PREM19/1973
Soviet Union (Human rights and the position of dissidents in the Soviet Union: policy towards the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)) (Part 1)