National Security Decision Directive no. 210, 4 February 1986, pp. 1–3:
RRPL, Robert Linhard Files, RAC, box 8.
R. Reagan to S. Massie, 10 February 1986: Jim Mann Papers (HIA), box 55.
M. S. Gorbachëv to R. Reagan, 16 February 1986, pp. 1–7: RRPL, Executive
Secretariat, NSC, Head of State Files: USSR: General Secretary Gorbachev,
box 40.
‘Soviet Forces and Capabilities for Strategic Nuclear Conflict Through the
Mid-1990s’, National Intelligence Estimate, April 1986, p. 7: CIA Papers; R.
M. Gates, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents
and How They Won the Cold War, p. 381.
E. Abrams to the National Security Council, memo, 11 March 1986, p. 1:
RRPL, Jack Matlock Files, box 15, folder: Matlock Chron. March 1986.
O. Grinevsky and L. M. Hansen, Making Peace: Confidence Building,
pp. 467–8; meeting of N. I. Ryzhkov and G. P. Shultz (Stockholm, memcon),
15 March 1986, pp. 4 and 6–7: RRPL, Jack Matlock Files, box 15, folder:
Matlock Chron. March 1986.
Meeting of J. Matlock and T. Renton and others (London, memcon), 7 March
1986, p. 2: ibid.
G. P. Shultz to R. Reagan, memo, 19 February 1986, p. 1: RRPL, Robert E.
Linhard Files, box 92168, folder: NSDD 214.
J. Matlock to R. Lehman, R. Linhard and S. Sestanovich, memo, 3 February
1986: RRPL, Jack Matlock Files, box 14, folder: Matlock Chron. February
1986.
A. Hartman to Secretary of State, telegram, 5 February 1986: ibid.
National Security Decision Directive, no. 214, 21 February 1986, pp. 1–2:
RRPL, Robert E. Linhard Files, RAC, box 8.
R. Reagan to M. S. Gorbachëv, 22 February 1986, pp. 1–8: RRPL, Executive
Secretariat, NSC, Head of State Files: USSR: General Secretary Gorbachev,
box 40.
P. H. Nitze to R. Reagan, 14 February 1986: ibid.
E. L. Rowny to R. Reagan, 14 February 1986: ibid.
J. Attali, Ve r b a t i m, vol. 1: Chronique des années 1981–1986, pp. 930–1 (24
February 1986). See also the discussion by J. Newton, Russia, France and the
Idea of Europe, p. 136.
M. Thatcher to R. Reagan, 11 February 1986, pp. 1–5: RRPL, Executive
Secretariat, NSC, Head of State Files: USSR: General Secretary Gorbachev,
box 40.
US Embassy (London) to Secretary of State, 7 March 1986, pp. 1–6: RRPL,
Robert E. Linhard Files, box 92083, folder: Mrs Thatcher on SDI/ABM.
‘Gorbachev’s Modernization Program: Implications for Defense. An Intelli-
gence Assessment’, 1 March 1986, p. 4: CIA Papers.
