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1987 Nov 20 - 1988 Oct 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2545
Soviet Union (Visits to UK by President Gorbachev) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 259
Any docs withheld? 3

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87 Dec 8 Tu Major Soviet Union: MT letter to Richard Pollock ("Cabinet") [thanks for interpreting during Gorbachev stopover meeting en route to Washington] [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 9 We Major Soviet Union: MT message to Heads of Government (1500Z) ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Gorbachev") [lines to take on Gorbachev's UK stopover en route to Washington] [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 8 Tu Major Soviet Union: MT minute to George Younger (Prime Minister's meeting with Mr. Gorbachev) [thanks to Dept. of Defence staff & RAF, following Gorbachev's stopover meeting en route to Washington] [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 8 Tu Major Soviet Union: MT minute to Howe (Prime Minister's meeting with Mr. Gorbachev) [thanks to FCO staff, following Gorbachev's stopover meeting en route to Washington] [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 8 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Cabinet") [key points from Gorbachev's stopover meeting with MT, en route to Washington] [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 6 Su Major Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Gorbachevs' Visit: Media") [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 9 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Interview with Soviet Television") ["way ahead on arms control and Anglo-Soviet relations"; lines to take on Gorbachev's UK stopover en route to Washington] [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 5 Sa Major Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Gorbachev") [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 13 Su Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to National Air Traffic Services (message from Mr. Gorbachev) [relayed while over Scotland, en route from Washington to Berlin] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 25 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 Press Office minute to Ingham ("Press Requirements for the Gorbachev Visit") [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 27 Fr Major Soviet Union: No.10 Press Office minute to MT ("Visit of Mr Gorbachev") [programme] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 25 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Possible Visit of Mr. Gorbachev") [Charles Powell, Kossov: announcement] [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 2 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr. Gorbachev") [Charles Powell, Ambassador Price] [released Jul 2017]
88 Oct 12 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("UK/Soviet Relations") [Charles Powell, Kossov: Raisa Gorbachev; Afghanistan; Ambassador Zamyatin] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 21 Sa Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("United States/Soviet Summit: Possible Visit to the United Kingdom by Mr. Gorbachev") [Charles Powell, Kossov: agreement in principle; timing of announcement; arrangements] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 23 Mo Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("US/Soviet Summit: Possible Visit by Mr Gorbachev") [Charles Powell, Kossov: Soviet recce of RAF base; announcement] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 26 Th Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Zamyatin) ["Visit by Mr. Gorbachev": acceptance of invite; press criticism of Raisa Gorbachev; arrangements; programme] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 20 Fr Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Zamyatin) [possibility of Gorbachev stopover en route to Washington; King's Cross fire] [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 7 Mo Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev at Brize Norton) [developments in USSR; bilateral relations; arms control; human rights and Afghanistan; further visit] [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 7 Mo Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, Reagan) [MT briefs Reagan on meeting Gorbachev at Brize Norton, in advance of Reagan seeing him in Washington] [released Jul 2017]