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PREM19/3554
Soviet Union (Soviet and Cuban intervention in Central America and Third World: Soviet foreign policy) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Dec 29
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 206
Any docs withheld? 7

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Date Value Title
89 Jun 9 Fr Major Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Gorbachev's visit to the FRG 12-15 June") [briefing given to NATO Ambassadors] [declassified Dec 2017]
89 Jun 13 Tu Major Cold War: Soviet-German statement ("Joint Declaration") [CDP: "strikes me as rather flatulent, and worth a good deal less than is claimed for it"] [declassified Dec 2017]
89 Jun 15 Th Major Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (Kohl-MT) [Kohl call briefing on Gorbachev visit to FRG] [declassified Dec 2017]
89 Jun 16 Fr Major Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Gorbachev's visit to the FRG: assessment") [CDP: "A profoundly depressing account"; Gorbachev tour de force, ecstatic welcome] [declassified Dec 2017]
89 Jul 5 We Major Cold War: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Gorbachev's visit to France: Day One") ["Atmosphere warm, but the French are not going overboard"] [declassified Dec 2017]
89 Jul 6 Th Major Cold War: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Gorbachev's visit to France: Day Two") ["Gorbachev tackles the French intelligentzia and does not wholly convince ... A summit without Gorbimania"] [declassified Dec 2017]
89 Jul 7 Fr Major Cold War: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Gorbachev's visit to France: comment") ["Gorbachev confident and impressive in private, less assured in his public appearances"] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Oct 31 We Major Cold War: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Gorbachev's visit to Paris") [briefing from Quai d'Orsay on Franco-Soviet Treaty, visit "longer on form than substance"] [declassified Dec 2017]