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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3183
Soviet Union (UK/Soviet relations) (Part 17)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2018 Jul 24
Classification: Top Secret - Cab One
Page count: 312
Any docs withheld? 25

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90 May 29 Tu Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ('Time' Magazine interview with President Gorbachev) [CDP: "Some fascinating bits"; MT: "Some contradictory theses!"] [released Jul 2018]
90 May 29 Tu Major Soviet Union: Privy Council Office record of conversation ("Lord President's Visit to St Gallen Conference") [Howe, Professor Vassilenko: integration of the Soviet Republics into "new" Europe] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 1 Fr Major Soviet Union: FCO telegram 1016 to UKE Moscow (1930Z) ("Defection of Bolshoi Star") [Hurd: "very unfortunate timing just before the Prime Minister's visit"] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 1 Fr Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT (Bolshoi principal male dancer defects to UK) [CDP: "this weekend (of all weekends)", "he just turned up"; eve of MT visit to Moscow] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 1 Fr Major Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Project Marathon") [cover note referring to President Bush message to MT (not attached) regarding US/UK refusals of export licences for international consortium to instal transcontinental fibre optics system across Soviet Union; draft MT follow-up messages to relative Governments] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 1 Fr Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1045 to FCO (1513Z) ("Yeltsin's Programme") [details & analysis] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 1 Fr Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1033 to FCO (0553Z) ("Views of Shakhnazarov") [Lithuania] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 4 Mo Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram U/N to FCO (1248Z) ("Military Reform") [details from Soviet newspaper report] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 5 Tu Major Soviet Union: MT letter to Keith Joseph (Cable & Wireless/GEC applications for export licenses for equipment to lay fibre optic cables across Soviet Union) ['Project Marathon': reason for refusal] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 6 We Major Soviet Union: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Support for Mr Gorbachev") [proposed change in foreign policy, to accommodate Gorbachev's declining influence] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 11 Mo Major Soviet Union: UKE Bonn telegram 723 to FCO (1755Z) ("Possible Economic Help for the Soviet Union") [details of Soviet request for FRG credits & Western aid package to stimulate economic reform] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 12 Tu Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1091 to FCO (0922Z) ("Soviet Internal: Violence in Kirghizia") [situation report] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 13 We Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1098 to FCO (1333Z) ("Lithuania") [Lithuanian Supreme Council talks with Gorbachev at Council of Federation in Moscow] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 14 Th Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1109 to FCO (1309Z) ("Soviet Internal: Yeltsin and the RSFSR Sovereignty Declaration") [details & speculation on Gorbachev's reaction] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 14 Th Major Soviet Union: Chairman Yeltsin message to MT (election as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation) [response to MT congratulations] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 15 Fr Major Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Telephone Communication with Moscow") [extension of UK Embassy private line to the Kremlin & to No.10] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 15 Fr Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1119 to FCO ("Soviet Union: The State of Economic Reform") [Supreme Soviet refuses to endorse Government reform proposals: report] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 18 Mo Major Soviet Union: UKE Luxembourg telegram 189 to FCO (1941Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council, 18 June MIPT: EPC: Assistance to Soviet Union") [report on proceedings] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 19 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) ["Financial Assistance for the Soviet Union"] [released Jul 2018]
90 Jun 19 Tu Major Soviet Union: UKE Paris telegram 712 to FCO (1840Z) ("Economic Help for the Soviet Union") [report on Mitterrand's likely stance at Dublin & Houston summits] [released Jul 2018]