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1988 Mar 29 - 1988 Oct 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2385
Poland (Prime Minister's visit to Poland, November 1988) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret - Cab One
Page count: 293
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88 Apr 14 Th Minor Poland: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Powell (Prime Minister's visit to Poland) [copy of 1982 McCallum lecture on postwar Polish history] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 29 Th Major Poland: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Lord Bethell, Janusz Onyszkiewicz) [MT visit to Poland] [declassified 2016]
88 Oct 27 Th Major Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Gertych) [forthcoming visit to Poland; MT's "highest priority... to meet as many people as possible"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 25 Su Major Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Maxwell) ["Prime Minister's visit to Poland": Maxwell's account of meeting with Jaruzelski - "the West had as good as won the Cold War... [MT] visit could "not come at a more propitious time""] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 14 We Major Poland: No.10 record of conversation (Robert Maxwell visit to Poland to meet with General Jaruzelski) [Charles Powell, Robert Maxwell] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 31 Mo Major Poland: UK Ambassador to Holy See record of conversation ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [John Broadley, Archbishop Colassuono: MT message to Pope, and Vatican response] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 31 Mo Major Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO ("Closure of Lenin Shipyard") ["Statement by Walesa emphasises political nature of closure of Solidarity's birthplace. No call for strikes"; MT comments on draft press line for UK govt response] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Aug 24 We Major Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO ("Poland: implications of unrest for Prime Minister's visit") ["Latest troubles... could call in question the basis for the visit"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 29 Th Major Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO ("Poland: Prime Minister's visit: meeting with Church") [MT to meet with Bishop Dabrowski in Cardinal Glemp's absence, but hopeful that Glemp will still be available for revised date] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 31 Mo Major Poland: UKE Washington telegram 2628 to FCO (2330Z) (“US/Poland”) [‘political reform remains an essential ingredient for economic progress and hence for Western alliance’] [declassified 2016]
88 Oct 31 Mo Major Poland: UKE Washington telegram 2628 to FCO (2330Z) ("US/Poland") [US "shared some of Solidarity's concern that Rakowski may be intending to back away from the round-table process and to develop and economic plan that might be attractive to some of the Europeans"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 17 Mo Major Powell minute for MT (draft of written interview for Polityka) [Polish magazine] [declassified Jul 2016]