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1988 Nov 10 - 1988 Dec 29
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

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88 Dec 5 Mo Major Soviet Union: John MacGregor PS letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev Visit - Bilateral Relations") [response to MT's criticism of "disappointingly thin" briefing provided on agriculture] [released Jul 2017]
88 Nov 15 Tu Major Soviet Union: Martin Nicholson minute to Percy Cradock ("Gorbachev's Visit and the "Glorious" Revolution") [reference by Gorbachev in his recent book, 'Perestroika', "could be used... as a peg on which to hang our appreciation of Gorbachev's efforts at constitutional reform"] [released Jul 2017]
88 Nov 22 Tu Minor Soviet Union: Michael Kaser letter to Charles Powell (President Gorbachev's visit to the UK) [sends note on Gorbachev's reforms] [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 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 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 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 Nov 28 Mo Major Soviet Union: MT letter to Lord Marshall (President Gorbachev's Visit) [speculation that MT was source of Western advice to Gorbachev regarding the real cause of the Chernobyl disaster] [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 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 Nov 17 Th Major Soviet Union: No.10 Airborne telegram 004 to Cabinet Office (2145Z) ("Visit of President Gorbachev") [programme] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 1 Th Major Soviet Union: No.10 airborne telegram to Cabinet Office (1742Z) (Dinner for the Gorbachevs on 13 December) [guest list] [released Jul 2017]
88 Nov 30 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Gorbachev Visit: Call by HM Ambassador, Moscow") ["to discuss the programme and agenda... [MT] thinks it would be a mistake... We should keep our powder dry for some really important occasion"] [released Jul 2017]
88 Nov 28 Mo Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("President Gorbachev's Visit") [programme/schedule] [released Jul 2017]
88 Nov 15 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Visit of President Gorbachev") [MT's views on FCO draft programme] [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]
88 Nov 24 Th Major Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("President Gorbachev's Visit") [Queen's approval for a Guard of Honour] [released Jul 2017]
88 Dec 7 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 press release (Mr. Gorbachev's Address to the United Nations, 7 December 1988) [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 Nov 25 Fr Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("President Gorbachev's Visit") [Charles Powell, Ambassador Zamyatin, Kossov: "Gorbachev's reactions to our proposals for the programme"] [released Jul 2017]