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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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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 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 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 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 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]
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 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]
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 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]
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 Mar 10 Tu Minor Cold War: Nina Lagergren letter to MT (Raoul Wallenberg) [re-investigation of circumstances of Wallenberg's disappearance] [declassified Feb 2016]
80 Nov 8 Sa Minor Cold War: No.10 note to press officers ("Call on Mr Blaker by Stephen Roth and others from the Board of Deputies of British Jews") [shortcomings in implementation of Helsinki Act] [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 Jan 28 We Minor Cold War: Norris McWhirter letter to Ian Gow ("Re. Raoul Wallenberg") [nomination for Nobel Peace Prize] [declassified Feb 2016]
81 Jan 7 We Major Cold War: Peter Blaker letter to Robert Bradford (treatment of Moisei Tonkonogy) [Western delegations at CSCE pressing for evaluation of human rights and freedoms in Soviet Union] [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]
83 May 6 Fr Major Cold War: Pym PS minute to John Coles ("CSCE Conference/Conference on Disarmament in Europe") [provisional mandate for a conference, could bring pressure to bear on the east] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 May 16 Mo Major Cold War: Pym PS minute to John Coles ("CSCE Madrid Meeting: Appeal by Certain Neutral and Non-Aligned (NNA) Heads of Government") [continuation of CSCE process, improvements to draft text] [declassified Feb 2016]
83 Apr 20 We Major Cold War: Pym PS minute to John Coles ("CSCE Madrid Meeting: Appeal by Certain Neutral and Non-Aligned Heads of State/Government") [majority think draft should be used as basis for an intensive end-game] [declassified Feb 2016]