V. L. Kataev, ‘O programme SOI’, p. 1 in ‘SOI-A’: Vitalii Leonidovich Kataev
Papers (HIA), disk 5.
Note on C. Weinberger’s behalf to C. Powell, 9 April 1987: RRPL, Executive
Secretariat, NSC, Head of State Files: USSR: General Secretary Gorbachev,
box 41.
National Security Decision Directive no. 267, pp. 1–4, 9 April 1987: http://www.fas.
org/irp/offdocs/nsdd/index.html. p. 2.
C. Weinberger, ‘Toward Real Reductions in Weapons’, New York Times, 14
April 1987.
F. C. Carlucci to M. Baldrige, 27 March 1987: RRPL, Stephen Danzansky
Files (NSC): RAC, box 2.
R. L. Lesher (President, US Chamber of Commerce) and A. B. Trowbridge
(President, National Association of Manufacturers) to R. Reagan, 6 October
1986: ibid., box 8; Senator L. Bentsen to M. Baldrige, 15 December 1986: ibid.
Talking points for Reagan’s meeting with USSR Foreign Trade Minister B. I.
Aristov, 5 December 1986: ibid., box 2.
New York Times, 24 February 1987.
Press release of US Department of Commerce (n.d.) for session of the
US–USSR Commercial Commission, 4–5 December 1986: RRPL, Stephen
Danzansky Files (NSC): RAC, box 2.
R. Reagan to M. S. Gorbachëv, 10 April 1987, p. 1: The Reagan Files: The
Untold Story of Reagan’s Top-Secret Efforts to Win the Cold War.
Soviet transcript (excerpted) of conversation between M. S. Gorbachëv and
G. P. Shultz, 14 April 1987, pp. 1–2 and 5–7: ECWF (translated for the
National Security Archive by S. Savranskaya).
Ibid.
Politburo meeting, 16 April 1987: Anatoli Chernyaev Papers (RESCA), box 1,
pp. 189–90.
Politburo meeting, 16 April 1987: V Politbyuro TsK KPSS. Po zapisyam
Anatoliya Chernyaeva, Vadima Medvedeva, Georgiya Shakhnazarova, 1985–
1991 , pp. 145–6.
T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze diary, 2–3 May 1987: T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze
Papers (HIA), box 5.
From discussion led by E. A. Shevardnadze: T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze
working notes, 13 June 1987: ibid., box 1.
Ibid., 29 May 1987; M. S. Gorbachëv to the Political Consultative Committee
in East Berlin (East German report), 29 May 1987, pp. 2–3: PHPCS.
Ibid., p. 5.
T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze working notes, 29 May 1987: T. G. Stepanov-
Mamaladze Papers (HIA), box 1.
Politburo meeting, 30 May 1987, pp. 493–502: Dmitri A. Volkogonov Papers
(HIA), reel 17.
Politburo meeting, 9 July 1987: Anatoli Chernyaev Papers (RESCA), box 1,
pp. 261–2.
From discussion led by E. A. Shevardnadze: T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze
