Soviet Union, January 1981–January 1983


151. Memorandum From Secretary of State Haig to President Reagan

Source: Reagan Library, European and Soviet Affairs Directorate, NSC: Records, 1983–1989, Haig, Secretary of State (5). Secret. Simons’s draft memorandum of conversation for Haig’s March 16 meeting with Dobrynin is in the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Haig Papers, Department of State, Day File, Box 71, March 16, 1982.


152. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: NSC Meeting File: Records, 1981–88, NSC 00044 25 Mar 82. Secret. The meeting took place in the Cabinet Room at the White House. All brackets are in the original. Attached but not printed is a press release reporting on Buckley’s trip.


153. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Agency File, Arms Control & Disarmament Agency (4/12/82–4/15/82). Secret.


154. Memorandum From Secretary of State Haig to President Reagan

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Country File, USSR (04/01/1981–04/05/1982). Secret; Sensitive. An unknown hand wrote at the top of the memorandum: “President has seen.”


155. Memorandum From Richard Pipes of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Clark)

Source: Reagan Library, European and Soviet Affairs Directorate, NSC: Records, 1983–89, Haig, Secretary of State (4). No classification marking.


156. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Clark) to President Reagan

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Country File, USSR (4/13/82–4/23/82); Secret. Sent for information. Prepared by Pipes. A stamped notation at the top of the memorandum reads: “The President has seen.” Reagan initialed the memorandum next to the date. Pipes sent the memorandum to Clark for his signature under cover of a March 29 memorandum, in which he noted that “It addresses itself to the question raised by the President back at the NSC meeting of March 25 and at the DIA briefing on the Soviet economy the following day: ‛When is the time to sit down and negotiate with the Soviets?’” (Ibid.)


157. Memorandum From Richard Pipes of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Clark)

Source: Reagan Library, Matlock Files, USSR: Geneva [1981–1983] (4/5). Secret. Sent for information.


158. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Clark) to President Reagan

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Country File, USSR (04/01/1981–04/05/1982). Secret. Sent for action. Drafted by Dobriansky.


159. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Clark) to President Reagan

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Country File, USSR (4/13/82–4/23/82); Secret; Sensitive. Sent for information. Prepared by Pipes. An unknown hand wrote in the upper right-hand corner of the memorandum: “President has seen.”


161. Memorandum From Secretary of State Haig to President Reagan

Source: Reagan Library, Pipes Files, CHRON 04/14/1982–04/19/1982. Secret; Sensitive.


162. Telegram From the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Foreign Policy File, D820203–0844. Confidential; Priority. Sent Priority for information to USICA and Leningrad. Sent for information to Warsaw, Belgrade, Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Munich, Prague, Sofia, Bonn, London, Paris, Rome, the U.S. Mission to NATO, Helsinki, Bern, Beijing, Tokyo, and the U.S. Mission to the U.N.


163. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Clark) to President Reagan

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Country File, USSR (4/24/82–4/27/82). Secret. Sent for information. Prepared by Pipes. A stamped notation at the top of the memorandum reads: “The President has seen.” Reagan initialed the memorandum next to the date.


164. Minutes of an Interagency Coordinating Committee for U.S.-Soviet Affairs Meeting

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Country File, USSR (4/28/82 (4)). Confidential. Bremer sent the minutes to Clark under cover of an April 28 memorandum. (Ibid.)


165. Memorandum From Secretary of State Haig to President Reagan

Source: Reagan Library, Pipes Files, CHRON 05/01/1982–05/04/1982. Secret; Sensitive.


166. Letter From President Reagan to Soviet General Secretary Brezhnev

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Head of State File, USSR: General Secretary Brezhnev (8290289, 8290342). Secret. Sent to Reagan for his signature under cover of a May 6 memorandum from Clark. (Ibid.) In a May 6 memorandum to Clark, Kraemer and Linhard noted that the letter, “principally drafted by the Department of State, was with minor revisions approved by policy-level agency reps at this afternoon’s START meeting, chaired by Bud McFarlane.” (Ibid.)


167. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the Soviet Union

Source: Department of State, Central Foreign Policy File, [no film number]. Secret; Immediate; Nodis; Stadis. Drafted by Combs; cleared by Holmes, Bremer, Goldberg, and in S/S–O; approved by Eagleburger.


169. Memorandum From Secretary of State Haig to President Reagan

Source: Reagan Library, Pipes Files, CHRON 05/27/1982–05/31/1982. Secret; Sensitive.


170. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Clark) to President Reagan

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Country File, USSR (5/14/82–5/19/82). Confidential. Sent for information. Prepared by Pipes. Reagan initialed the document beneath the date.


171. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Clark) to President Reagan

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Head of State File, USSR: General Secretary Brezhnev (8290289, 8290342). Secret. Sent for information. Prepared by Stearman. Copied to Bush, Meese, Baker, and Deaver. In the upper right-hand corner of the memorandum, Reagan wrote: “I made some marginal notes. RR.”


172. Letter From Richard Pipes of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Clark)

Source: Reagan Library, Situation Room, White House, Richard Pipes. Private and Confidential.


173. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Clark) to President Reagan

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Country File: USSR (05/24/1982–05/29/1982). Secret. Sent for information. Copied to Bush, Meese, Baker, and Deaver. Reagan initialed the memorandum next to the date.


174. Minutes of a National Security Council Meeting

Source: Reagan Library, Pipes Files, CHRON 05/27/1982–05/31/1982. Secret. The meeting took place in the Cabinet Room at the White House. All brackets are in the original.


175. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the Soviet Union

Source: Department of State, Executive Secretariat, S/S–I Records: Walter Stoessel Files, Lot 82D307, Memoranda of Conversation. Secret; Immediate; Nodis. Drafted by Simons; cleared by Scanlan, Burt, Bremer, and in S/S–O; approved by Stoessel.


176. Note Prepared in the Situation Room

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Country File: USSR (5/24/82–5/29/82). Secret. Poindexter wrote in the upper right-hand corner of the memorandum: “President has seen.”


178. Message From Soviet General Secretary Brezhnev to President Reagan

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Head of State File, USSR: General Secretary Brezhnev (8290378, 8290381). Top Secret. An unknown hand wrote at the top of the message: “Translation by Richard Pipes.” Moscow transmitted the letter to Washington between 0402 and 0416 EDT. (MOLINK Message Chronology, June 9; ibid.)


179. Message From President Reagan to Soviet General Secretary Brezhnev

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Head of State File, USSR: General Secretary Brezhnev (8290378, 8290381). No classification marking. An unknown hand indicated that Washington transmitted the message to Moscow at 1820Z.


180. Message From Soviet General Secretary Brezhnev to President Reagan

Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC: Head of State File, USSR: General Secretary Brezhnev (8290378, 8290381). Top Secret; Sensitive; Specat. Printed from a draft translation.