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1980 May 14 - 1985 May 3
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 324
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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]
83 Apr 18 Mo Major Cold War: MT message to Heads of Government of non-aligned and neutral states (Madrid CSCE review meeting) [proposed concluding document requires improvements as put forward by western governments] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 May 19 Th Major Cold War: MT message to Heads of Government of non-aligned and neutral states (Madrid CSCE review meeting) [proposed concluding document requires improvements as put forward by western governments] [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]
80 Jun 9 Mo Minor Cold War: MT letter to Leonard Schapiro (repression of dissidents) [UK government has been making private representations to the Kremlin] [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]
83 Oct 14 Fr Minor Cold War: Michael Bourdeaux letter to John Coles (repression in Soviet Union) [asks if MT is willing to take up individual cases] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Oct 26 Mo Minor Cold War: Michael Alexander minute to Carrington PS (repression in the Soviet Union) [will keep up pressure when CSCE meeting reconvenes] [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 Oct 19 Mo Minor Cold War: Michael Alexander letter to Arthur Goldberg (Madrid CSCE review meeting) [implementation of Helsinki Final Act] [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]
80 May 14 We Major Cold War: Leonard Schapiro letter to MT (human rights in Soviet Union) [request that UK government "speak out strongly" and denounce Kremlin on the issue] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Jan 26 Mo Minor Cold War: John Eades letter to MT (Yuri Orlov) [request for a discussion at next CERN meeting] [declassified Feb 2016]
80 Nov 6 Th Minor Cold War: John Eades letter to MT (Yuri Orlov) [hopes Madrid CESC conference will discuss Orlov's case] [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]
82 Aug 30 Mo Minor Cold War: John Eades letter to MT (Yuri Orlov) [deterioration of Orlov's health, agreement on CERN-Soviet collaboration] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 Jun 24 Fr Minor Cold War: John Coles minute to Howe PS ("Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe") [proposal tabled in Spain represents final position and can be no further concessions] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 Nov 7 Mo Major Cold War: John Coles letter to Michael Bourdeaux (repression in Soviet Union) [MT likely to continue on a selective basis to help give publicity to a small number of special cases] [declassified Feb 2016]
82 Oct 6 We Minor Cold War: John Coles letter to John Eades (Yuri Orlov) [will keep up pressure on Soviet government over human rights record] [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]