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PREM19/2868
Soviet Union (Visit to the UK by President Mikhail Gorbachev, April 1989) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 492
Any docs withheld? 8

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89 Jan 3 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit") [Charles Powell, Kossov: "the problem lies in untying the knot between his visit here and his visit to Cuba"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jan 28 Sa Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit") [Charles Powell, Kossov: announcements] [released Dec 2016]
89 Feb 3 Fr Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit") [Charles Powell, Kossov: offer of credit from British banks; trade; invitation to Queen to visit USSR; media interviews] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jan 13 Fr Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Sir Gordon White") [Charles Powell, Gordon White: management training for Soviet industrialists] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jan 10 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Visit of President Gorbachev") [Charles Powell, Kossov: "no firm news of Mr Gorbachev's plans"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Feb 8 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Braithwaite) ["Programme for Mr. Gorbachev's Visit"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jan 25 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Mr. Gorbachev's Visit": programme/agenda] [released Dec 2016]
89 Mar 13 Mo Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversations ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit: Interview") [Charles Powell, Kossov: Gorbachev pulling out of agreement to do 'Times' interview, and No.10 response] [released Dec 2016]
89 Mar 31 Fr Minor Soviet Union: Ponsonby minute to MT ("Gorbachev visit") [whether hats would be worn at Guildhall] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Mar 19 Su Major Soviet Union: Powell briefing for MT ("Mr. Gorbachev's visit") [issues to be covered; his third visit to Britain, "we are seen as favoured"] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Mar 6 Mo Major Soviet Union: Powell conversation record (CDP-Andrei Vavilov) ["He thought we underestimated Yeltsin, who was far from being a spent force"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Mar 6 Mo Major Soviet Union: Powell conversation record (MT-Director-General of the Security Service) [planned expulsion of Soviet and Czech spies - timing, tactics; MT favours "handling ... as discreetly as possible"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 May 5 Fr Major Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT ("Expulsion of members of the Soviet and Czech Embassies") [Whom to expel? When to act? How to do it? Should you write to Mr Gorbachev? Should we expel the Russians and Czechs together or separately?] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Feb 24 Fr Minor Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT (interview for Ogonyok) [urges her to leave theme of UK-Soviet relations till later interview; make this "racy and daring ... focussing much more in our politics and you personally"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Feb 6 Mo Major Soviet Union: President of the CBI letter to Lord Young (Mr Gorbachev's Visit to UK) [offer of CBI facilities for meeting with businessmen] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jan 5 Th Major Soviet Union: Soros Foundation letter to No.10 (Gorbachev's Vision) [Soros article: "Its conclusions are alarming in their naivety" - MT] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jan 3 Tu Major Soviet Union: Soros Foundation letter to No.10 (Open Sector Initiative) [Charles Powell impressed by Soros/Pembroke College proposal for scheme to aid restructuring of Soviet economy; brings to the attention of MT] [released Dec 2016]
89 Feb 17 Fr Major Soviet Union: Soviet Studies Research Centre letter to No.10 (Rescheduled Visit of Mr Gorbachev to the UK) [Chris Donnelly response to No.10 request for update on his thoughts ] [released Dec 2016]
89 Feb 22 We Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 332 to FCO (1730Z) ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit to the UK") [Soviet comments on programme] [released Dec 2016]
89 Mar 3 Fr Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 407 to FCO (1513Z) ("Visit of Mr and Mrs Gorbachev") [Soviet draft of programme] [released Dec 2016]