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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2546
Soviet Union (Visits to UK by President Gorbachev) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret
Page count: 368
Any docs withheld? 3
Themes: British relations with the Soviet Union, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Central & Eastern Europe), Defence (general), Defence (arms control), Industry, Public spending & borrowing, Trade, Science & technology

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Date Value Title
88 Dec 7 We Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("President Gorbachev's Visit") [programme: points to note] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 8 Th Major Soviet Union: MT letter to President Gorbachev ("Earthquake in Armenia ") [condolences; postponment of his visit to UK; welcomes proposed reductions in Soviet conventional forces and armaments] [declassified Jul 2017]
88 Dec 8 Th Major Soviet Union: Gorbachev message to MT (earthquake in Armenia) [cancellation of scheduled visits to UK] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 8 Th Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Zamyatin) ["Postponement of President Gorbachev's Visit": Armenia earthquake] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 8 Th Major Soviet Union: MT letter to Gorbachev (earthquake in Armenia) [postponement of Gorbachev's scheduled visit to UK] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 8 Th Major Soviet Union: UKMIS New York record of conversation ("Gorbachev Visit to New York") [Crispin Tickell chat with Gorbachev, latter referred to MT as a friend] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 12 Mo Major Soviet Union: MT letter to Lord Jellicoe (Davy Corporation's interests in the USSR) [MT acknowledges points raised by Jellicoe for the now-cancelled Gorbachev visit] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 19 Mo Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Visit of Mr. Gorbachev") [Charles Powell, Kossov: dates for rescheduled meeting, following cancellation of Gorbachev visit due to Armenia earthquake] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 19 Mo Major Soviet Union: MT letter to Lord Joseph (Project Marathon) ["While the immediate chance to mention this project has been lost by the postponement of President Gorbachev's visit, this may be no bad thing, if it enables C&W and GEC to clarify their proposal in greater detail and enables the Government to appraise it for clearance with COCOM and the US"] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 19 Mo Major Soviet Union: MT letter to Lord Marshall (the safety of civil nuclear power) [collaboration with USSR] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 21 We Minor Soviet Union: FCO record of conversation ("Dates for the Gorbachev Visit") [Ambassador Zamyatin, FCO officials] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 28 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit") [Charles Powell, Kossov: dates for rescheduled visit] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 28 We Major Soviet Union: MT letter to Lord Jellicoe (UK's trade relationship with the Soviet Union) [acknowledgement of concerns] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 29 Th Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Kenneth Warren MP (UK's trade relationship with the Soviet Union) [information from Soviet government contacts, forwarded in advance of now-postponed Gorbachev visit to UK] [released Jul 2017]