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Ibid.

CHAPTER 20: RUSSIA … AND REAGAN

1
.
Lever to Cartledge, 8 May 1979, Prime Minister’s Papers, Soviet Union: Misc (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
2
.
Interview with Lord Carrington.
3
.
PM to Conquest, 6 June 1979, The Thatcher Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge, THCR 2/6/2/38.
4
.
PM to Conquest, 26 June 1978, THCR 2/6/2/38.
5
.
Robert Conquest,
Present Danger: Towards a Foreign Policy
, Hoover Institution Press, 1979.
6
.
Interview with Robert Conquest.
7
.
Conquest to PM, 30 July 1979, THCR 2/6/2/38.
8
.
Conquest to PM, 28 Aug. 1979, THCR 2/6/2/38.
9
.
Conquest to PM, 12 Dec. 1979, THCR 2/6/2/38.
10
.
Thomas to PM, ‘The Office of Prime Minister: a historical note’, Oct. 1980, THCR 2/6/1/254.
11
.
Conquest to Gow, 12 Apr. 1983, THCR 2/6/2/38.
12
.
Interview with Robert Conquest.
13
.
Ryder to PM, 3 Oct. 1979, THCR 2/6/2/38.
14
.
Interview with Sir Clive Whitmore.
15
.
Interview with Sir Michael Alexander, 25 Nov. 1998, British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, Churchill College, Cambridge.
16
.
Interview with Lord Carrington.
17
.
Interview with Sir Rodric Braithwaite.
18
.
Rodric Braithwaite,
Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down
, Yale University Press, 2002, pp. 51–2.
19
.
Interview with Lord Ryder of Wensum.
20
.
Mallaby to Gillmore, ‘Positions of Strength in Arms Control Negotiations’, 6 Dec. 1979, TNA: PRO FCO 28/3865.
21
.
Interview with Sir John Coles.
22
.
181220z Jul 79, RAC NLC-31-145-7-2-8, Carter Library, Atlanta GA.
23
.
Interview with Lord Carrington.
24
.
Brzezinski to President, ‘Thoughts on Thatcher: Foreign Policy Implications of the Tory Triumph’, RAC NLC-6-77-2-8-1, Carter Library.
25
.
Carter to Thatcher, 11 May 1979, The National Archives (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO) FCO 82/978-980.
26
.
Interview with Sir Clive Whitmore.
27
.
Thatcher to Carter, 15 June 1979, TNA: PRO FCO 82/978-980.
28
.
Partial record of Thatcher Discussion with Schmidt, 11 May 1979, TNA: PRO PREM 19/15.
29
.
Cartledge to Lever, 13 June 1979, TNA: PRO PREM 19/15.
30
.
Note of Giscard d’Estaing/Thatcher meeting, 19 Nov. 1979, TNA: PRO PREM 19/15.
31
.
Cartledge to Lever, 25 July 1979, TNA: PRO PREM 19/15.
32
.
Thatcher to Carter, 28 July 1979, TNA: PRO PREM 19/15.
33
.
Speech to Conservative Party conference, 12 Oct. 1979 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104147
).
34
.
Winston Churchill Memorial Lecture, Luxembourg, 18 Oct. 1979 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104149
).
35
.
Interview with Lord Parkinson.
36
.
Cartledge to FCO, 27 June 1979, TNA: PRO PREM 19/124.
37
.
Daily Telegraph
, 4 July 1979.
38
.
Band to Fall, ‘Kosygin’s Invitation to the Prime Minister’, 6 July 1979, TNA: PRO FCO 28/3880.
39
.
Band to Fall, ‘Invitation to the Prime Minister’, 3 Aug. 1979, TNA: PRO FCO 28/3865.
40
.
Extract from record of meeting of Carter and Thatcher, 17 Dec. 1979, TNA: PRO PREM 19/134.
41
.
Thatcher to Brezhnev, 29 Dec. 1979, TNA: PRO PREM 19/134.
42
.
Conquest to Ryder, 4 Jan. 1980, THCR 2/6/2/35.
43
.
Note for the Record, meeting with Lunkov, 3 Jan. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/134.
44
.
Interview with Sir Michael Alexander, 25 Nov. 1998, British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, Churchill College, Cambridge.
45
.
Carrington to PM, 2 Jan. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/134.
46
.
Alexander to Walden, 3 Jan. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/134.
47
.
Alexander to Lyne, 8 Jan. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/135.
48
.
OD Minutes, 22 Jan. 1980, Prime Minister’s Papers, Afghanistan: Internal Situation: Soviet Military Intervention (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
49
.
Brzezinski to Carter, 29 Jan. 1980, Plains File Box 2, Carter Library.
50
.
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski.
51
.
Hansard, HC Deb 28 Jan. 1980 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104298
).
52
.
Brzezinski to Henderson, 11 Feb. 1980, CO65, CO167, WHCF-Subject File, Carter Library.
53
.
Time
, 4 Jan. 1980.
54
.
PM to Follows, 19 Feb. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/374.
55
.
PM to Duke of Edinburgh, 30 Apr. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/375.
56
.
Note on Carrington report on journey to Turkey, Pakistan etc., 19 Jan. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/135.
57
.
Record of conversation between Thatcher and Schmidt, 25 Feb. 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/136.
58
.
Record of discussion between Thatcher and Schmidt, 8 March 1980, TNA: PRO PREM 19/137.
59
.
Giscard d’Estaing to Thatcher, 26 June 1980, Prime Minister’s Papers, Afghanistan: Internal Situation: Soviet Military Intervention (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
60
.
Speech to party conference, 10 Oct. 1980 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104431
).
61
.
Thomas C. Reed,
At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold War
, Presidio Press, 2004, pp. 234–5.
62
.
Interview with Sir Christopher Mallaby.
63
.
Interview with Lord Carrington.
64
.
Interview with Edwin Meese.
65
.
Ronald Reagan, 29 Jan. 1981, The President’s News Conference, Public Papers of the Presidents, The American Presidency Project, University of California.
66
.
Press conference for Association of American Correspondents in London, 16 Feb. 1981 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104570
).
67
.
James Rentschler, ‘A Reason to Get Up in the Morning: A Cold Warrior Remembers’, unpublished memoir, p. 578.
68
.
Summary of President’s meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher, 26 Feb. 1981, Reagan Memcons (2), Box 48, Exec sec, NSC: Subject File, Reagan Library.
69
.
Ibid.
70
.
Speech accepting the Donovan Award, New York, 28 Feb. 1981 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104584
).
71
.
Interview with Lord Carrington.
72
.
Speech accepting the Donovan Award, 28 Feb. 1981 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104584
).
73
.
Alexander to Walden, 9 Mar. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers: Soviet Union: UK/Soviet Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
74
.
Walden to Alexander, 30 Jan. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers: Soviet Union: UK/Soviet Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
75
.
Walden to Alexander, 18 Mar. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers: Soviet Union: UK/Soviet Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
76
.
Interview with Sir Murdo Maclean.
77
.
Interview with Richard Perle.
78
.
Interview with Richard Allen.
79
.
‘East–West Relations’, 11 Feb. 1981, Department of State Briefing Paper, Released by the US State Department under FOIA Case #200505131.
80
.
Interview with General Alexander Haig
81
.
‘Security/Arms Control Issues’, 17 Feb. 1981, Department of State Briefing Paper, released by the US State Department under FOIA Case #200505131.
82
.
Interview with Jim Rentschler. See also Rentschler to Allen, ‘Thatcher Visit: Talking Points for the Press’, 20 Feb. 1981, UK: Prime Minister Thatcher Visit, 02/25/1981–02/28/1981 (1), RAC Box 1, Exec Sec, NSC: VIP Visits, Reagan Library, Simi Valley CA.
83
.
Interview with Jim Rentschler.
84
.
Haig to Reagan, ‘The Atlantic Alliance’, 29 Apr. 1981, NSC 00008 30 April 81 (3/3), Exec Sec, NSC: NSC Meeting Files, Box 91282, Reagan Library.
85
.
Interview with Richard Perle.
86
.
Hansard, HC Deb 19 Nov. 1981 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104745
).
87
.
Ibid., 18 Mar. 1982 (
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104896
).
88
.
Margaret Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, HarperCollins, 1993, p. 472.
89
.
Interview with Ken Adelman.
90
.
Interview with Richard Allen.
91
.
Ronald Reagan,
An American Life: The Autobiography
, Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. 550.
92
.
Interview with David Aaron.
93
.
Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, pp. 245–6.
94
.
Interviews with Lord Carrington and Sir Michael Palliser.
95
.
Interview with Jim Thomson.
96
.
Sec. Def. Meeting with UK MOD John Nott, 11 Mar. 1981, 20 Mar. 1981, 1981 UK 1, Box 666, Papers of Caspar Weinberger, Library of Congress.
97
.
Interview with Sir John Nott.
98
.
Interview with Lord Butler of Brockwell.
99
.
‘Extract from Record, PM + S/S Defence’, 10 Feb. 1981, TNA: PRO PREM 19/417.
100
.
Ibid.
101
.
Perle to Weinberger, Joint US/UK Review of Defense Program, 13 Oct. 1981, 1981 UK 7, Box 666, Papers of Caspar Weinberger.
102
.
Interview with Richard Perle.
103
.
Interview with Richard Allen.
104
.
Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years
, p. 248.
105
.
110900z Mar 82, ‘Message from the Prime Minister to President Reagan’, 11 Mar. 1982, UK: Prime Minister Thatcher, Box 36, Exec Sec, NSC: Head of State File, Reagan Library.
106
.
Record of a conversation between PM and Waldheim, 20 May 1980, Prime Minister’s Papers, Afghanistan: Internal Situation: Soviet Military Intervention (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
107
.
Record of conversation between Thatcher and Kisiel, 9 Dec. 1980, Prime Minister’s Papers, Poland: Situation and Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
108
.
Ibid.
109
.
Thatcher to Carter, 8 Dec. 1980, Prime Minister’s Papers, Poland: Situation and Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
110
.
Record of conversation between Thatcher and Haig, 10 Apr. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, USA: UK/US Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
111
.
Richards to Alexander, 13 Nov. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, PM’s Tours: Suggestion that PM might visit Poland in 1982 (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
112
.
Reagan to Thatcher, 19 Dec. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, Poland: Situation and Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
113
.
Record of conversation between Carrington and PM, 20 Dec. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, Poland: Situation and Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
114
.
Thatcher to Reagan, 22 Dec. 1981, UK: Prime Minister Thatcher, Box 35, Exec Sec, NSC: Head of State File, Reagan Library.
115
.
National Security Council Minutes, 6 July 1981, NSC 00016, Exec Sec, NSC: NSC Meeting Files, Box 91282, Reagan Library.
116
.
National Security Council Minutes, 22 Dec. 1981, NSC 00034, Exec Sec, NSC: NSC Meeting Files, Box 91283, Reagan Library.
117
.
Thatcher draft reply to Reagan letter of 24 Dec. 1981, Prime Minister’s Papers, Poland: Situation and Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
118
.
Thatcher to Reagan, 8 Jan. 1982, Prime Minister’s Papers, Poland: Situation and Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
119
.
Record of conversation between Thatcher and Haig, 29 Jan. 1982, Prime Minister’s Papers, Poland: Situation and Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
120
.
Haig to Reagan, 29 Jan. 1982, UK: Prime Minister Thatcher, Box 35, Exec Sec, NSC: Head of State File, Reagan Library.
121
.
Thatcher to Reagan, 29 Jan. 1982, Prime Minister’s Papers, Poland: Situation and Relations (document consulted in the Cabinet Office).
122
.
Ronald Reagan,
The Reagan Diaries
, HarperCollins, 2007, 30 Jan. 1982, p. 66.
123
.
‘Terms of Reference for High-Level USG Mission to Europe on Soviet Sanctions’, 26 Feb. 1982, NSC 00043 02/26/83, Box 91283, Exec Sec, NSC: NSC Meeting Files, Reagan Library.

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