Chapter 5, May–June 1990
142. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Office of the Under Secretary for Arms Control, International Security Affairs, Lot 01D127, 1969–1990 Subject Record of James P. Timbie, Soviet Summit Memcons, May 1990. Secret. Drafted on July 2. The meeting took place in Bartholomew’s office. It commenced as Gorbachev and Soviet delegation officials were meeting with Bush and his national security team in the Cabinet Room, prior to a State Dinner in honor of the Soviet leader, who arrived that day and departed the afternoon of June 3. The memorandum of conversation of the afternoon meeting between Bush and Gorbachev is scheduled for publication in Foreign Relations, 1989–1992, vol. III, Soviet Union, Russia, and Post-Soviet States: High-Level Contacts.
143. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Policy Planning Staff, Lot 03D012, Dennis Ross Files, US/Soviet Memos of Conversation—1989/1990. Secret. The meeting took place in the Cabinet Room. The complete memorandum of conversation is scheduled for publication in Foreign Relations, 1989–1992, vol. III, Soviet Union, Russia, and Post-Soviet States: High-Level Contacts.
144. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Office of the Under Secretary for Arms Control, International Security Affairs, Lot 01D127, 1969–1990 Subject Record of James P. Timbie, Soviet Summit Memcons, May 1990. Secret. Drafted on July 3. The meeting took place in the Deputy Secretary’s Conference Room.
145. Telegram From the Department of State to All Diplomatic Posts
Source: Department of State, Central Foreign Policy File, D900499–0798. Unclassified; Priority. Sent Priority for information to the Special Embassy Program and Leningrad. Drafted by Jack Deasy (EUR/SOV) from a text from the White House; cleared by Vershbow and Pifer, and in S/S, S/S-O, and NSC; approved by Seitz.