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PDF 45 Dec 1 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) 1943-47 (Oxford): Oxford University Conservative Association Report (reacting to 1945 election defeat) [report co-authored by Margaret Roberts, Michael Kinchin-Smith and Stanley Moss]
PDF 72 Oct 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Paris European Summit record of conversation (Session 1) [declassified 2003]
PDF 72 Oct 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Paris European Summit record of conversation (Session 5 - communiqué) [declassified 2003]
PDF 73 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) Conservative Party: State Department record of MT conversation (lunch at the Connaught) [MT's frank assessment of her political colleagues] [declassified 1998]
PDF 74 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CPS) Conservatism: Centre for Policy Studies Management Committee minutes (eighth meeting) [input, output, credo, fundraising, advisory council]
PDF 76 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Tel Aviv to FCO (account of MT meeting with PM Rabin) ["Mrs Thatcher's personality ... produced remarkable results"]
PDF 76 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Circulated Paper (CRD on Stage II of pay policy) [521K]
PDF 76 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Devolution: MT notes for speech on 2R Scotland & Wales Bill
PDF 77 May 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: London Summit (Session 2) [declassified 2008]
PDF 77 Sep 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Visit to Washington of the Rt. Hon Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, M.P.: 11 - 14 September. 1977") [account of MT's visit] [declassified 2007]
PDF 78 Apr 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: MTs notes on Shadow Cabinet (manifesto draft)
PDF 78 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Public spending & external relations: Sir Keith Joseph to MT (forwards Blaker Report) [MT loath to cut BBC Overseas Services]
PDF 78 Jul 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Bonn Summit (Session 2) [declassified 2008]
PDF 78 Aug 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Belize/Cold War: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable (Guatemala-UK negotiations) ["unexpectedly reasonable" approach from Guatemalan side] [declassified 2007]
PDF 79 Jan 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) South America: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable ("Peru: Relations with Neighbors") ["hardening stance ... new truculence"; Peru expels Chilean envoy and warns Ecuador] [declassified Jul 2004]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) US: Brzezinksi minute to Carter ("Information") [MT's election victory] [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 May 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) US: Vance minute to Carter (Vance meets with Carrington) [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Hunt minute to MT ("Standing Commission") [Clegg Commission on pay comparability] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Transcript of MT/Schmidt press conference ("Press Conference on 11 May 1979 given by Prime Minister Mrs. Thatcher & Chancellor Schmidt") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Cartledge letter to the Department of Energy ("Call on the Prime Minister by the President of the European Commission on 21 May 1979") [need for a study on the bargaining position of the West in OPEC oil negotiations] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Roy Jenkins) [EMS, CAP, energy, Rhodesia] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Jun 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Foreign and Commonwealth Office letter to No.10 ("Call on the Prime Minister by the President of the European Commission on 21 May, 1979") [objectives for the West vis-a-vis oil supply] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Belize/Cold War: Odom memo for Brzezinksi & Aaron ("Soviet-Cuban Military Relationship") [draft Intelligence Community analysis] [declassified Apr 2008]
PDF 79 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Pattison minute to MT (arrangements for visits to Departments) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 16 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 record of conversation(MT-Shell executives) [discussion of global oil situation] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Housing: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Mortgage Rate") [strategy to address rise in rates] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 79 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) US: NSC memo for Brzezinski ("Evening Report") [MT's letter to Carter regarding the Tokyo G7] [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO letter to No.10 ("East-West Heads of Mission Conference: Planning Staff "Paper"") [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Joseph minute to MT ("Micro-Electronics") [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Aug 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Statistics: No.10 minute to MT ("The Tax and Price Index") ["likely to be greeted with a good deal of scepticism... presentation... will have to be careful and well thought out"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 minute to MT ("Robert Conquest") [Conquest paper on US/UK misconceptions about Soviet motives; MT agrees with Carrington proposal for seminar for experts on Soviet affairs, and requests Joint Intelligence Committee study on current thinking and outlook of Soviet leadership] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 79 Sep 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cuba: UKE Washington telegram 2558 to FCO (0900Z) ("Soviet Ground Forces in Cuba") [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Oct 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: James minute to MT (planned interview with the Sunday Telegraph ) [agreeing a suitable interviewer] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: MT letter to Peregrine Worsthorne (MT's decision not to conduct Sunday Telegraph interview) ["You should certainly not assume that you are therefore "judged an enemy""] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Zimbabwe: President Tolbert of Liberia message to MT (Constitutional Conference) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: Brzezinksi minute to Carter ("British Nuclear Force Modernization") [US will assist British in "modernizing their Polaris force"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [briefing before Carrington's coming meeting with Malfatti] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: CIA assessment of US relations with Western Allies (US “losing its leadership position”) [declassified 2005]
PDF 79 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Nott letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Directors' Duty to Have Regard to Employees' Interests") [Companies Bill: "one provision where there is a particularly difficult balance to strike... risk of vexatious litigation"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 79 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Belize/Cold War: CIA National Foreign Assessment Center memo ("Cuban and Soviet Activities in the Caribbean and Central America") [Belize ministers in contact with Cubans] [declassified 2005]
PDF 79 Nov 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Pattison minute to MT ("British Lions' Tour of South Africa") [possible Government responses if British Lions accept invitation to tour South Africa] [declassified 2010]
PDF 79 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 (Anthony Blunt: articles published in French newspaper 'Libération') [allegation against Sir Maurice Oldfield, currently Security Coordinator in Northern Ireland] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 79 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("Situation in Iran") [voting on draft constitution] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) EC: NSC memo for Brzezinksi ("Evening Report") [MT to visit US; EC Budget negotiations] [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Middle East: Brzezinksi minute to Carter ("Daily Report") ["Thatcher Government - Middle East views"] [declassified 2005]
PDF 79 Dec 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Duggan minute to Fearn and Harding ("Falkland Islands: Examples of Shared Sovereignty") [other examples of shared sovereignty; comparison to Falklands situation] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) US: NSC memo for Brzezinksi ("Evening Report") [MT and Diego Garcia] [declassified 2008]
PDF 79 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Polaris replacement, benefits for strikers, Mrs Khashoggi, steel strike, leak inquiries) [“Strikes are too often a weapon of first, rather than last, resort”] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Dec 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Bulletin (MT visit to Washington) [incomplete] [meeting details, composition of British party] [released 2010]
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: SCC meeting on Afghanistan (CIA appreciation of Soviet intentions)
PDF 79 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT plenary meeting with President Carter) [Iran, Rhodesia, Middle East, energy, Northern Ireland, defence] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Dec 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iran: UKE Tehran to FCO ("US Embassy, Tehran") [situation in Iran] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Dec 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: Special Coordination Committee meeting memcon ("Iran and Afghanistan") [Carter signs Presidential Finding authorising lethal aid to Afghan opponents of Soviet invasion] [declassified 2008/12]
PDF 80 Jan 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: UKE Washington telegram 505 to FCO (0105Z) (“Australian Prime Minister’s Visit to Washington”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 80 Jan 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Soviet Ambassador to the UK, Lunkov) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jan 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Text of speech by Enoch Powell to the Annual Institution Supper of the Dundonald Orange Lodge (devolved Government in Northern Ireland) [Union is "in greater danger now than at any time since the disastrous actions of the Heath government"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jan 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: Brzezinksi minute to Carter ("Strategic Reaction to the Afghanistan Problem") [declassified 2008]
PDF 80 Jan 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: Minutes of White House Special Coordination Committee Meeting ("Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan") [agreement that message should be sent by Carter to MT to express concern over British decision to "accept Iranian oil at $30 per barrel"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 80 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: CIA assessment of Western European reactions to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (“British will probably be most forthcoming”) [declassified 2005]
PDF 80 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Zimbabwe: NSC memo for Brzezinski ("Evening Report") [Tolbert and Shagari send messages to MT protesting South African presence at Beit Bridge] [declassified 2008]
PDF 80 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA Information Report (1934Z) ("Alleged belief of the Argentine Government that the current US Administration is trying to 'destabilize' it by using the human rights campaign") ["knee-jerk rationalisation among elements within the GOA"] [declassified 2018]
PDF 80 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: Minutes of White House Special Coordination Committee Meeting ("Southwest Asia and the Persian Gulf") [Diego Garcia] [declassified 2008]
PDF 80 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: Minutes of White House Special Coordination Committee Meeting ("Iran/Afghanistan") [draft Presidential letter to Thatcher] [declassified 2008]
PDF 80 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Keith Joseph letter to Lord Carrington ("Guangdong nuclear power-station, People's Republic of China") ["The attached report... proposes that the UK should continue its close involvement in the project"] [declassified Dec 2010]
PDF 80 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Lawson MSS) Conservatism: Lawson minute to MT ("Visit of Milton Friedman'") [brief for MT's forthcoming meeting with Friedman]
PDF 80 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government buildings: Carrington minute to Heseltine (“International Conference Centre (ICC) - Broad Sanctuary”) [“worried by the practical and economic implications of any delay”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Walker letter to MT (sheepmeat) [briefing for MT's interview on French television] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Howard, Kedourie, Schapiro & Thomas report for MT ("Western Strategy in the Wake of Afghanistan") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Mar 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Biffen letter to Fowler (“Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC)”) [grant aid] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Howell memo circulated to E Committee - E(80) 34 (Electricity (England and Wales) EFL 1980-81) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: NSC memo for Brzezinksi ("Evening Report") [NATO] [declassified 2008]
PDF 80 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iran: FCO briefing paper ("Soviet Aims in Iran") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Argentina: CIA intelligence assessment ("Peru: Prospects for Democracy") [positive trends promise successful end to military rule, but remaining threat of instability and military readiness to intervene] [declassified 2018]
PDF 80 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (IMF Interim Committee & IMF/World Bank Development Committee meetings) [main points from Howe's attendance at most recent meetings] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 80 May 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Treasury letter to Stevas ("Burmah Shareholders Action Group/BP Share Claim") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Henderson letter to Acland ("The Arc of Crisis: US Defence Policy") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Preparation for the Olympics") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jun 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: Prime Minister Sá Carneiro letter to MT (next meeting) [car accident; accession to EC; date of next meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jun 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Belize/Cold War: CIA National Foreign Assessment Center memo ("Cuba-Nicaragua: Support for Central American Insurgencies") [Belize ministers developing "discreet understandings" with Cubans against Guatemala] [declassified 2005]
PDF 80 Jun 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Prior letter to Hailsham ("Clause 17 of the Employment Bill") [response to criticisms] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Armstrong minute to MT (new evidence that John Stonehouse is an agent of the Czechoslovak Intelligence Service) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow to FCO ("The Olympics") [situation in Moscow] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Heseltine letter to Prior ("Codes of Practice on Picketing and the Closed Shop") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Argentina and the coup in Bolivia") [consensus among diplomats in Buenos Aires is that "Argentine government aided and abetted the event", but no hard evidence as yet] [declassified 2018]
PDF 80 Jul 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: State Department telegram to USE Buenos Aires ("Bolivian coup") [army consolidating physical hold, but have "thought little about developments beyond the initial takeover"] [declassified 2018]
PDF 80 Jul 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office letter to Whitelaw PS ("Menwith Hill") ['New Statesman' article on US National Security Agency activities] [declassified Dec 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow to FCO ("The Olympic Games") [situation in Moscow] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Howell letter to MT (“Energy Conservation”) [MT comments on draft paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 80 Aug 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Growing Argentine involvement in Guatemala") [Argentina fearing Central American haven for militants expelled from southern cone; "Argentine model" in counterinsurgency seen as the "ultimate 'success story'" by Guatemalan goverment; training of its forces by Argentine advisers already taking place] [declassified 2019]
PDF 80 Aug 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Kabul to FCO ("Afghanistan: Sitrep") [USSR/Afghanistan scientific and technical co-operation; situation in Afghanistan] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Aug 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Howell minute to MT ("Energy Prices") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Sep 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Lord Greenhill message to MT ("Meeting with Mrs Gandhi on 1 September") [UK-Indian relations, Middle East, situation in Afghanistan, communist ideology, Iran] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Sep 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: USE La Paz telegram to State Department ("US policy towards Bolivia") [seeks guidance as to how to respond to approaches from opponents of coup] [declassified 2018]
PDF 80 Sep 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: NSC-State Department report ("Report on September 23 IG Meeting on Bolivia") [decision to continue seeking to isolate regime, influence towards moderation, exert economic pressure] [declassified 2018]
PDF 80 Sep 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Armstrong minute to MT ("Panorama Programme on the Intelligence Services") [Armstrong has another talk with BBC Director General] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: State Department memcon (Muskie-Argentine FM Pastor) [Bolivian coup; Pastor calls US-Argentina relations "mainly a one way street with his country on the losing end"] [declassified 2018]
PDF 80 Sep 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Belize/Cold War: CIA National Foreign Assessment Center memo ("Cuba-Nicaragua: Support for Central American Insurgencies") [possible use of Belize to step up Cuban support for Guatemalan guerrillas] [declassified 2008]
PDF 80 Oct 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador Lunkov) [situation in Afghanistan] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 80 Oct 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Carter letter to MT (Afghanistan) ["very sensitive question of external aid to the Afghan National Resistance Movement"] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Oct 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT letter to Carter (Afghanistan - aid to resistance) ["we are already working together on this very sensitive and important issue"] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Nov 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Transcript of MT's interview with Patrick Sergeant of the Daily Mail (economic issues, unions, taxation, state industries) [released 2011]
PDF 80 Nov 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: FCO brief for European Council, Luxembourg, 1-2 December 1980 - EHG(L2)(80) 16 (Political Cooperation) [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Carter Library) Cold War: CIA assessment of likely Allied reactions to possible Soviet invasion of Poland (“fairly strong”) [declassified 2005]
PDF 81 Jan 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Iran, Demarche on Soviet Actions During the Hostage Crisis, El Salvador, Polish Contingency Planning, Meeting with Congressmen Zablocki and Broomfield") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Jan 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Armstrong minute to MT ("Panorama Programme on the Intelligence Services") [content of documentary] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA National Foreign Assessment Center Memorandum ("Guatemala: The Climate for Insurgency") ["The 20-year old Marxist insurgency is again intensifying"] [declassified 2019]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (“Central America [& Taiwan]”) (NSC 0002) [declassified 2007]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (FBI) US: FBI Alexandria teletype to FBI Director (“Possible threat to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Great Britain”) [conversation overheard by a “source of proven reliability”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Italy/US: White House record of conversation (Reagan-Foreign Minister Colombo) [expressions of mutual regard; TNF; Italy as a "difficult democracy"] [declassified 2006]
PDF 81 Feb 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War & Caribbean: National Security Council minutes (1542Z) ("Caribbean Basin & F15s") (NSC 0003) [declassified 2007]
PDF 81 Feb 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to the United States: 25-28 February 1981") [complete set] [released Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO briefing for MT (Prime Minister’s visit to Washington) [talks with Reagan; meetings on the Hill; US space programme budget cuts; honorary degree ceremony; Donovan award; Economic Industrial Lunch] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: State Department memorandum for National Security Adviser (“Paper for the NSC Meeting on El Savador”) [Interagency options paper, examining US and third country assistance] [declassified 2007]
PDF 81 Feb 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Sir Geoffrey Harrison") [contingency PMQs briefing on media reports of former ambassador being compromised by KGB] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 81 Feb 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: White House Press Briefing (MT visit) [distance between British & US approach to the economy]
PDF 81 Feb 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Central America & Middle East: National Security Council minutes (2130Z) ("El Salvador & Saudi F15s") (NSC 0004) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Department of Environment letter to No.10 ("Future of Rating") [review of local government finance] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Letter to you from Brezhnev, PIA Hijacking Incident, East-West Relations, Saudi F-15's") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Mar 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Cardona minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget: Letters from Public") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: National Security Council minutes (2000Z) ("Sinai peacekeeping & Pakistan") (NSC 0005) [declassified 2005]
PDF 81 Mar 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Central America/Africa: National Security Council minutes (1905Z) ("Poland, Nicaragua/Central America, Southern Africa") (NSC 0006) [declassified 2005]
PDF 81 Mar 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: FCO telegram 498 to UKE Washington (1900Z) ("Call on Haig: Middle East") [possible PLO support for El Salvador rebels] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: No.10 minute to MT (“Unemployment Benefits Scrutiny”) [MT urges no delay in implementation of report recommendations] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Apr 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East/Cold War/Central America: National Security Council minutes (1900Z) ("Haig trip to Mideast and Europe, Saudi AWACS, and Nicaragua") (NSC 0007) [declassified Jul 2010]
PDF 81 Apr 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO briefing ("Mr Blaker's meeting with Mrs Avital Shcharansky: Monday, 27 April 1981: 1500 hours") [Shcharansky's condition, attitude of UK and Soviet governments] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 81 Apr 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Michael Alexander minute to Carrington PS (meeting with Avital Shcharansky) [expectation of campaign by Jewish pressure groups] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 81 Apr 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1510Z) ("Theater Nuclear Forces - negotiations timing") (NSC 0008) [declassified 2005]
PDF 81 Apr 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MOD (“Arms Embargo on South Africa”) [union reports embargo breach] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 May 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Caribbean: National Security Council minutes (1300Z) ("US-USSR Standing Consultative Commission and US Policy for Caribbean Basin") (NSC 0009) [declassified Nov 2008]
PDF 81 May 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Central America/China: National Security Council minutes (1730Z) ("US Policy for Caribbean Basin, US Relations with the PRC, and Sinai Multinational Force") (NSC 0010) [declassified Oct 2012]
PDF 81 Jun 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Latin America/Middle East: National Security Council minutes (1930Z) ("Arms Transfer Policy & F16s for Venezuela; US Policy Toward Libya") (NSC 0011) [declassified Oct 2012]
PDF 81 Jun 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/China & Far East: National Security Council minutes (1730Z) ("China, Cuba and Secretary Haig's Trip to the Far East") (NSC 0012) [declassified Jun 2016]
PDF 81 Jun 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA National Intelligence Daily ("Guatemala-Belize: Status of Negotiations") [Guatemalan FM considering postponing treaty talks in face of domestic criticism of territorial concessions to Belize] [declassified 2019]
PDF 81 Jun 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) China/Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1554Z) ("China, Greece and Poland") (NSC 0013) [declassified Mar 2007]
PDF 81 Jun 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Belize: CIA National Intelligence Daily ("Guatemala-Belize: Status of negotiations") [Guatemalans restive] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jun 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Poland, Status of Security Council Action in Aftermath of the Israeli Air Raid") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Jun 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Meeting with Israeli Ambassador Evron, Reactions to UN Security Council Vote on Israeli Raid") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Jun 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKA Rome despatch to FCO (“The Forlani government: October 1980 to May 1981”) [P2 scandal, record in government] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 81 Jun 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation ("Mr. Carbaugh") [Michael Alexander, John Carbaugh: Namibia/Angola/Southern Africa; Cuba; US/UK defence policies] [released Aug 2013]
PDF 81 Jul 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1509Z) ("East-West Trade Controls") (NSC 0016) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Spt 2004]
PDF 81 Jul 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1930Z) ("East-West Trade Controls") (NSC 0017) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Oct 2005]
PDF 81 Jul 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Casey paper (“CIA Memorandum on Siberian pipeline”) [declassified 2004]
PDF 81 Jul 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Conversation with President Viola") [despondent; denied rumours of government instability, on ground Galtieri too mistrusted by air force and navy to replace him] [declassified May 2017]
PDF 81 Jul 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) North/South: FCO letter to No.10 ("North/South Summit") [response to Heath's memo on plans for Mexico summit] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Testimony Before Senate Armed Services Committee, Assurances for Mauritania, Security Assistance and Human Rights in Guatemala, Nicaraguan Reprogramming") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Aug 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (CIA) Argentina: Director of Central Intelligence daily schedule ("DCI's Schedule for Friday, 14 August 1981") [DCI attends Galtieri reception for US Army Chief of Staff at Argentine Embassy] [declassified 2006]
PDF 81 Aug 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: State Department memcon (Haig-Argentine FM Camilion) ["strong support for US policy in Central America"; no danger of war with Chile] [declassified 2017]
PDF 81 Aug 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: Director Casey memorandum to Deputies ("Insurgency and instability in Central America") [thoughts and questions on draft] [declassified 2019]
PDF 81 Sep 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: Department of Defense memcon (Carlucci-Argentine FM Camilion) [views on Central America "correspond closely"; "military solution is probably not possible ... covert assistance may be possible"] [declassified 2019]
PDF 81 Sep 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA National Foreign Assessment Center Memorandum ("Cuba: Promoting Armed Struggle in South America") [particularly its role in Argentina] [declassified 2018]
PDF 81 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (2000Z) ("Further Economic Aid to Poland") (NSC 0021) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 81 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Armstrong minute to MT ("Panorama Programme on the KGB") [BBC request assistance from Security Services] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Sep 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Facer note circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 44 (The Mexico Summit and Relations with Developing Countries) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Sep 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Belize: CIA National Intelligence Daily ("Guatemala-Belize: Tension Increases") [Guatemalan military talking tough about Belize independence but incapable of attacking while facing domestic insurgency] [declassified 2009]
PDF 81 Oct 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA National Foreign Assessment Center Memorandum ("Argentine Assistance to Bolivia") [Argentine role in promoting, funding and sustaining Bolivian coup regime] [declassified 2019]
PDF 81 Oct 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1800Z) ("Theater Nuclear Forces, Egypt") (NSC 0022) [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 81 Oct 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA National Intelligence Officer/Latin America memorandum ("Central America - Talking Points") [situation assessments country by country] [declassified 2019]
PDF 81 Oct 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1800Z) ("East-West Trade Controls") (NSC 0023) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Spt 2004]
PDF 81 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Operation Bright Star '82, CIA Charges Against Ambassador Harry Barnes") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: CIA paper for NSC (“Possible Allied Response to US Strategy on the Pipeline”) [declassified 2004]
PDF 81 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: USE Buenos Aires note for political files ("Meeting with Rosendo Fraga") [Galtieri "very susceptible to US influence"; Fraga see Falklands settlement "as a reachable goal in the near future"] [declassified 2019]
PDF 81 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Mexico: UKE Mexico City letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Mexico: 21 - 25 October 1981") [despatch following visit] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Nov 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Exxon to Pull Out of Lybia, Saudis Acknowledge Soviet Role in Middle East peace Process, Nicaragua, talks with the Haitians") [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 245 to FCO (1000Z) ("Afghanistan: SitRep") [released Jul 2018]
PDF 81 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (2000Z) ("Strategy towards Cuba and Central America") (NSC 0024) [declassified 2005]
PDF 81 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1800Z) ("Theater Nuclear Forces") (NSC 0025) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 81 Nov 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: State Department memcon (Ambassador Vernon Walters-General Pinochet) [Pinochet concern at "Argentinian rigidity" on papal decision of Beagle Channel dispute; Pinochet broached need for 'tranquillity' during passage of legislation repealing Humphrey-Kennedy amendment] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Nov 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (2000Z) ("Strategy towards Cuba and Central America; Proposed US Peacekeeping Force in Chad") (NSC 0026) [declassified Spt 2019]
PDF 81 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretary of State for Employment paper circulated to E Committee - E (81) 114 ("Arbitration arrangements in the public sector") [revised proposals] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Nov 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Secretary of State for the Environment paper circulated to E Committee - E (81) 117 ("Rate Support Grant settlement 1982-83") [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 81 Nov 21 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA National Intelligence Daily ("Argentina: Political Uncertainty") [Viola unlikely to resume office soon; Galtieri or Bussi possible replacements] [declassified 2019]
PDF 81 Nov 21 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA National Intelligence Daily ("Argentina: political uncertainty") [Viola ill; speculation as to possible replacement] [declassified 2018]
PDF 81 Nov 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Central America: Allen memorandum for Reagan ("Memorandum on Cuba and Central America") [CIA Director conversation with Galtieri as to "what the Argentines are doing in Central America and what they want from us"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 81 Nov 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: HMT minute to No.10 ("UK Budget Refunds for 1980 and 1981") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Nov 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Lenz memo for Allen (NSC leaning towards Haig rather than Weinberger on Poland) [declassified 2004]
PDF 81 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: State Department memcon (Ambassador Vernon Walters-Pope John Paul II) [Beagle Channel dispute - Galtieri upset, Argentina did not get "a single square metre"; Soviets in Central America] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Dec 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: USE Buenos Aires note for political files ("Viola's Future") [Viola resuming office soon; Galtieri will not force him out] [declassified 2019]
PDF 81 Dec 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1830Z) ("Monitoring Overseas Direct Employment (MODE) and Civil Defense") (NSC 0027) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 81 Dec 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East & Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1415Z) ("Libya and Global Negotiations") (NSC 0029) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 81 Dec 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Coles minute to MT ("Speech to the European Parliament: 16 December") [draft for MT's speech; MT: "There is no structure to the speech. It is a dull orderly turgid narrative"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Dec 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (2041Z) ("Aid to Poland") (NSC 0031) [declassified Feb 2008]
PDF 81 Dec 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA National Intelligence Daily ("Argentina: new President") [assesses Galtieri; will have more power than Viola, but inexperienced in policy-making and "tends to act on impulse"] [declassified 2018]
PDF 81 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Sir Roger Hollis") [advice on response to 'Times' article by Chapman Pincher, author of 'Their Trade is Treachery', alleging MT statement to Parliament in March was based on misinformation] [released Dec 2023]
PDF 81 Dec 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA briefing for DCI ("DCI Worldwide Briefing - Latin America") [Galtieri presidency likely to take tougher line with Chile, slower political reform, perhaps better economic decision-making] [declassified 2019]
PDF 81 Dec 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Argentina: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department (1500Z) ("Galtieri's swearing-in") [recommends Reagan send message wishing him well, stopping short of congratulations] [declassified 2018]
PDF 81 Dec 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1530Z) ("Poland") (NSC 0033) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 81 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA biography ("Leopoldo Fortunato GALTIERI") [unrevealing career profile] [declassified 2018]
PDF 81 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA biography ("Jorge Isaac ANAYA") [career profile; "receptive to US views and will try to find common ground with this country on international issues"; schoolmate of Galtieri] [declassified 2018]
PDF 81 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA biography ("Basilio Arturo Ignacio LAMI DOZO") [career profile; "flexible yet pragmatic .... impressive network of civilian contacts .... anti-Communist, anti-Peronist and highly nationalistic"] [declassified 2018]
PDF 81 Dec 22 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1930Z) ("Poland") (NSC 0034) [Reagan calls European leaders “chicken littles … let our Allies know ... we have long memories”] [declassified Oct 2004]
PDF 81 Dec 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Argentina: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department (1833Z) ("Galtieri sworn in") [brief and austere ceremony; Videla present, but Viola and his allies absent; Anaya too short to bestow presidential sash] [declassified 2018]
PDF 81 Dec 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA National Intelligence Daily ("Argentina: new President") ["much stronger power base in the military" than Viola, but growing sentiment Junta "has exhausted itself"; replaced key army officers; economy; risk of "diplomatic imbroglio" over the Falklands] [declassified 2018]
PDF 81 Dec 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1600Z) ("Poland") (NSC 0035) [Reagan comments: "We'd like a little heat on our Allies"] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 81 Dec 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA memorandum for Director ("Monthly Warning Assessment: Latin America") [Central America overview; Honduras; El Salvador; Nicaragua; Guatemala; Costa Rica; Argentina] [declassified 2007]
PDF 81 Dec 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Poland") [USSR response to Reagan's television message about the situation in Poland] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jan 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Middle East: National Security Council minutes (2123Z) ("Poland & Golan Heights") (NSC 0036) [Reagan comments: "Maggie Thatcher has told me their trade with the Arabs is very important and that this has her worried"] [declassified Mar 2001]
PDF 82 Jan 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA memorandum for Director, FBIS ("Monthly Report: [redacted words] December 1981") [new Junta] [declassified 2018]
PDF 82 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (Lawson speech on the coal industry) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) International law: National Security Council minutes (1830Z) ("Law of the Sea") (NSC 0037) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 82 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: National Security Council minutes (2105Z) ("Libya") (NSC 0038) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 82 Jan 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 283 to FCO (0030Z) ("President Reagan's State of the Union Address") [analysis] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Co-Chair of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (human rights abuses: the Anatoly Shcharansky case) ["I take a close personal interest in these matters"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 82 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (2030Z) ("Scope and Interpretation of Oil and Gas Equipment Controls") (NSC 0039) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Spt 2004]
PDF 82 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) International law: National Security Council minutes (1440Z) ("The Caribbean Basin") (NSC 0040) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 82 Feb 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKA Buenos Aires despatch to FCO ("The Argentine Armed Forces in 1981") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1800Z) ("Terms of Reference for High-Level USG Mission to Europe on Soviet Sanctions") (NSC 0043) [Siberian gas pipeline; Reagan: "I must take the blame for having been careless. ... Maggie Thatcher has made me realise that I have been wrong"] [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 82 Mar 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Budget, Economy, Trade Unions) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Economy, Budget, Pay, Industrial Problems) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: MT letter to Chairman of British Caledonian Airways (London-Los Angeles route) [MT supports “fair share of the market”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 813 to FCO (0045Z) (“Buckley mission”: credits to USSR) [conversation between Nicholas Henderson & James Buckley] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Trident, Budget, Economy, Industry) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Law & Order; Other Crime; London Transport ... Falkland Islands) ["FT says 50 scrap metal merchants land and hoist Argentine flag; Guardian sees it as a comic opera episode but we haven't heard the last of it"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1100Z) (meeting of ministers, Algerian MPs, Indo-British Association) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Carrington message to Costa Mendez (1928Z) (proposed resolution) [willingness to see Argentine ship used to remove Davidoff party] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Carrington note circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 5 (White Paper: Developments in the European Community - July to December 1981) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Central America: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable ("Guatemala - Military Coup ... Cuba - Defensive Preparations") [declassified Aug 2010]
PDF 82 Mar 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily article ("Argentina-UK: Possible Conflict in South Atlantic") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Mar 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Malvinas Group memoranda ("Directiva de Estrategia Nacional No.2/82 (CASO MALVINAS)") [and other documents before the Junta when it decided to invade the islands] [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Mar 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: FCO brief for European Council, Brussels, 29/30 March 1982 - EHG(B)(82)9 (Political Cooperation) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Mar 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Central America: CIA National Intelligence Daily ("El Salvador: Preliminary Election Results") [heavy voter turnout enhances credibility, but too soon to predict outcome] [declassified Aug 2010]
PDF 82 Mar 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Central America: CIA National Intelligence Daily ("El Salvador: Elections Returns") [Christian Democrats winning large plurality but rightist attempt to deny them a majority] [declassified Aug 2010]
PDF 82 Mar 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: CIA telegram to Multiple Recipients (1612Z) ("Argentine Army and Navy Assessment of the Current Status and Prospects of the Dispute with the United Kingdom over Islands in the South Atlantic") [Argentine naval intelligence sources doubting Argentine capacity to act; Camilion told US Ambassador Junta playing up incident to buy "political space" for Galtieri] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: CIA intelligence information cable ("Argentine Government Determination to Take Military Action, if Necessary, in the Current Conflict with the UK over Islands in the South Atlantic") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily article ("Argentina-UK: Possible Clash") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Central America: CIA National Intelligence Daily ("USSR: Brezhnev's Health") [widespread rumours in Moscow that he has been hospitalized] [declassified Feb 2011]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: CIA telegram to Multiple Recipients (1913Z) ("Partial Chronology of the Argentine Military Action against the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: CIA paper ("Quick Intelligence Assessment on Falkland Affairs") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA background analysis ("The Falklands Dispute - An Historical Perspective") ["only a minor irritant in bilateral relations ... until 1965"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA Directorate of Intelligence memorandum ("Falkland Islands Situation Report #1") [thinks British will use force, Argentina realises this but its navy would do badly; Soviets would use veto at UN] [declassified 2008]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: Casey memo for Haig ("Quick Intelligence Assessment on Falklands Affairs (April 2nd, 1982)") [Galtieri's "generally aggressive foreign policy"; Cuba, Soviets will be wary] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Central America: CIA National Intelligence Daily ("Salvadorean Political Manoeuvring") [Argentina-UK second item] [declassified Dec 2011]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA Directorate of Intelligence paper ("The Falkland Islands and Dependencies (U)") ["A Geographic Reference Aid"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ('Whence the Threat to Peace': Soviet response to US booklet 'Soviet Military Power') [summary/analysis; MT requests brief] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA Directorate of Intelligence memorandum (1430Z) ("Falkland Islands Situation Report #2") [British will be 'hard-pressed' to oust a large Argentine garrison; GOA telling US of Soviet presence] [declassified 2008]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA Directorate of Intelligence memorandum (1900Z) ("Falkland Islands Situation Report #3") [Argentine submarines will stay around Falklands even after their ships leave] [declassified 2008]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Central America: CIA National Intelligence Daily (USSR/Cuba, Israel, USSR/Yugoslavia, International) [Falklands invasion not among top four topics] [declassified Feb 2011]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minutes of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 4th Meeting/82 (0830Z) (Intelligence Assessment, Own Forces, Military Appreciation, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Special Boat Section, Argentine Presence in the UK, SAS) [partly redacted text, with material also on SAS] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minutes of Chiefs of Staff Committee - COS 4th Meeting/82 (0830Z) (Intelligence Assessment, Own Forces, Military Appreciation, Public Relations, Decisions Required, Special Boat Section, Argentine Presence in the UK, SAS) [full text, including list of attendees] [declassified Aug 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA Directorate of Intelligence memorandum (1800Z) ("Falkland Islands Situation Report #4") [Argentina claims British Antarctica; UK cabinet resignations unlikely] [declassified 2008]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Central America: FBIS memorandum for Director ("Monthly Report - Gulf Bureau - March 1982") [rumours Brezhnev suffered a stroke on plane returning from Tashkent] [declassified Feb 2008]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: CIA telegram to Multiple Recipients (0018Z) ("Background on the Argentine Decision to Seize the Falkland Islands; Argentine Misperception of Reaction to the Seizure") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Mallaby minute for Pym PS ("Falkland Islands: Secretary of State's speech in the House of Commons on 7 April") [draft for Pym's first speech - realism, calm, determination] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: PSO CDS minute for CDS ("Briefing for Heads BDS Washington") ["As we discussed, your aim is to get as much as we can from the Americans ... we would like the President to play down his even-handed approach and have been encouraged by some recent DIPTELS on the subject"] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: Talking Points prepared by State Department ("NSPG meeting, 8.30AM, April 7 1982") [Falklands dispute: political situation in UK/Argentina; military capabilities; US proposals to both sides; next steps] [published 2015; largely declassified 2001]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: National Security Planning Group meeting (1334-1415Z) (situation in South Atlantic) [account from Rentschler memoirs, Weinberger diary] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: Costa Mendez letter to Haig (sends documents supporting the Argentine case) [first aim of action was to "alter the protacted negotiations that were stagnated and had no future"; carried out with great care to avoid loss of lives or damage to property; mindful of national pride on both sides] [released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA paper ("The Falkland Islands and Dependencies") ["A Geographic Reference Aid"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Galtieri message to President Reagan and other heads of government (conflict with Britain) (Spanish original) [explains Argentinian position] [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Ministry of Foreign Affairs briefing for Junta (negotiation with Haig) (Spanish original) [analysis, proposals, background material] [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: CIA telegram to Multiple Recipients (1931Z) ("Argentine Government Views of the Current Dispute with the United Kingdom") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: State Department telegram 97992 to Haig (0422Z) ("Highlights of April 12 TV Newscasts") [state of Haig talks; ABC report of US air reconnaissance of Falklands before invasion] [released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable (UK-Argentina: Military and Diplomatic Moves) [Argentine military preparations continue; diplomacy at OAS inconclusive; Peruvian truce proposal] [declassified Mar 2011]
PDF 82 Apr 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: State Department press digest (Highlights of April 13 TV Newscasts and Programs - incomplete) [evening shows - intelligence assistance leak] [released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Enders information memorandum for Haig ("Political Implications of Argentine Military Activity in the Antarctic") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA press cutting (New York Times article) ["U.S. Providing British a Wide Range of Intelligence"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: CIA telegram to the White House Situation Room & the NSC Staff (0114Z) ("Argentine Plans to Deploy Part of Its Fleet; Argentine Hopes for US Intelligence Support; Argentine Willingness to Accept Soviet Intelligence Support if the US Does Not Provide it") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA intelligence memorandum ("Falkland Islands dispute: economic impact") [sanctions imposed will have "minimal impact on the Argentine economy in the next 30 to 60 days"] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: National Intelligence memorandum ("What Next in the Falklands? - Some Thoughts on the Tactical Problem") [likely seizure of South Georgia; possible landing points on East Falkland] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("NSSD 1-82") (NSC 0045) [National Security Strategy Directive] [declassified Oct 2006]
PDF 82 Apr 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: ACDS(I) minute for CDS ("Interim Report from DGI in Washington") [meetings with DIA and CIA - "very sceptical of our ability to assault the Falkland Islands successfully with the amphibious equipment that we have" ... "we should play it long and bide our time"] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 18 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: ACNS(O) minute for Director of Naval Warfare ("Procedures for the rapid dissemination of ROE decisions terms of reference for study") [present procedures "far from satisfactory"; study improvements] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Argentine Presidency conversation record (0030Z) (Haig, Galtieri, Costa Mendez) (Spanish text, Spanish transcript & English translation) [Haig: "if [MT] does not want war she may be satisfied with some face-saving measures"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Dr Perutz message for MT (Galtieri's visits to Washington before the invasion) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 498 to FCO (2114Z) (Parsons draft letter to the President of the Security Council) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Argentine Presidency conversation record (2145Z) (Cabinet meeting) (Spanish text, Spanish transcript & English translation) [Costa Mendez reports] [declassified 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 1355 to FCO (2340Z) (“Credits for Soviet Union: discussion at Rambouillet 24 April”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1430Z) ("Strategic Arms Reductions Talks (START)") (NSC 0046) [declassified Jul 2010]
PDF 82 Apr 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands/Italy: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable (new British peace proposals; Italian government crisis) [Argentina likely to reject them] [declassified Mar 2011]
PDF 82 Apr 24 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable ("Argentina-UK: Disappointing Diplomatic Progress") ["Buenos Aires is encountering difficulty in gaining diplomatic backing for its position"; South Georgia in UK sights] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1815Z) ("NSSD 1-82") (NSC 0047) [National Security Strategy Directive] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Alexander, Middleton and Spivey note circulated to the Official OD Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands - ODO(SA)(82) 33 (Emergency Powers (Falkland Islands) Bill) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: Intelligence memorandum prepared in the CIA ("UK-Falklands: Pressures on Thatcher") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: DCDS(I) minute to Lewin ("General Galtieri") [assessment by CIA psychiatrists; "politically calculating and judicious" rather than impulsive] [declassified Oct 2017]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Lord Privy Seal PS letter to No.10 (Falklands debate) [draft of Lady Young's speech as at 1300] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Haig off the record briefing to Congressmen (describes impasse) ["there is no one who can make a decision" in Argentina; questions self-determination] [declassified 2002]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: NSC minute for Poindexter (agenda & attendance schedule for Falklands NSC meeting) [declassified 2006]
PDF 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA Directorate of Intelligence memorandum ("Falkland Islands Situation Report #41") [Argentina rejecting Haig proposals; USG urging 17 US citizens on Falklands to leave] [declassified 2008]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (PM's day, PM's engagement, Haig proposals, TEZ, Red Cross, Shift of mood, Geneva conventions) ["We have no intention of using gratuitous force but every intention of enforcing the exclusion zone"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: USE Madrid FLASH telegram to State Department (1006Z) ("Falklands Dispute") [Spanish Foreign Minister told US diplomats Soviet instructors training Peruvian pilots in Peru flown to Argentina] [published Feb 2007]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: National Security Council minutes (1335-1430Z) ("South Atlantic Crisis") (NSC 0048) [US 'tilt' towards Britain] [declassified 2011]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department (1433Z) ("Falklands Crisis: Galtieri's Position") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Council memorandum ("Monthly Warning Assessment: Latin America") ["likely Argentine defeat by the UK" might lead to pro-Soviet government] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) Argentine Junta: Argentine Presidency record of Galtieri-Belaunde phone conversation (0330Z) (Spanish original) [reaction to news of the torpedoing of the General Belgrano; Peruvian peace initiative] [declassified 2013; this copy 2015]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1345Z) ("START") (NSC 0049) [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: USE Lima telegram to State Department (1434Z) ("End of Peruvian Initiative") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: SCDS briefing for CDS (0800Z) ("OD(SA)/Cabinet Meetings dated 4 May at 0900 and 1000") [impact of Belgrano sinking in Argentina] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/JIC: BDS Washington signal to MODUK (2100Z) ("Press reporting on US/UK intelligence cooperation during the Falkland crisis") [Tovey conversation with Director Defense Intelligence Agency - difficulty preventing US media securing sensitive intelligence information] [declassified May 2023]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Gillmore minute to Wright (Haig and UN) [Renwick says Haig convinced Argentine reference to the UN "nothing more than a manoeuvre"; ceasefire most unlikely] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Office minute (Falkland Islands - Reports of an Argentine vessel being hit by a Bofors gun off South Georgia) [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sir Frank Cooper minute for Chief of Defence Staff ("Falkland Islands - the media") ["I think we are losing ground. We need to regain it and be more positive and respond more quickly"] [declassified Oct 2019]
PDF 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: Atkeson memorandum to Casey & Inman ("What's Next in the Falklands? - (Part III) The Long View") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands) [Britain extends "war zone" to within 12 miles of Argentina; MT marked] [released 2013]
PDF 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Walters memcon (2200Z) (Walters, Galtieri, Sotera) [Falklands crisis] [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Library of Congress) Falklands: CIA telegram to Multiple Recipients (0210Z) ("Comments of Argentine Government officials on relations with the United States and other countries as a result of the dispute over the Falkland Islands") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1720 to FCO (2050Z) ("Falklands: USSR/Argentina") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1730 to FCO (2302Z) ("Falklands, General Walters' Remarks") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily (military & political situation) [British perhaps underestimating Argentine military; Argentine carrier a likely target for British subs even in coastal waters] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 May 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA briefing paper for Director ("Military and Political Developments in the Falkland Islands Crisis") [British landing "some time this week"; "a high-risk venture" - outnumbered 2:1, enemy dug in] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable (0300Z) ("UK-Argentina: Argentines Await Assault") ["imminent military showdown", Junta believes "military defeat is more honorable" than a bad deal] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: Special Assistant for Warning memorandum to the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council ("Military Showdown in the Falklands: Alternative Outcomes") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Gillmore record of conversation (Gillmore, ACNS(OPS) and Stewart) ["Falkland Islands - the military situation" - question of how late the decision to land could be made, ministers understanding it was left open until this afternoon] [declassified 28 Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 443 to UKMIS New York and UKE Washington (1345Z) ("Personal for Ambassador") [options of raid and landing on Falklands - if major landing takes place we intend to obscure the distinction, at least in the early stages] [declassified 28 Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1345Z) ("START") (NSC 0049A) [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1430Z) ("Review of December 30, 1981 Sanctions") (NSC 0050) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Dec 2006]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USMIS New York telegram to State Department & White House (1528Z) ("Falkland Islands: Possible Resolution in Security Council") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Council memorandum ("Monthly Warning Assessment: Western Europe") [EC divisions over Falklands] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable ("UK-Argentina: Probable British Strategy") ["London is aiming at a rapid military victory"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Council memorandum ("Monthly Warning Assessment: Latin America") [British victory "most probable ... in the next few weeks"; probability of UK attacks on mainland lower than before 21 May landings] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Officer for Warning memorandum ("NIO/W Contribution to the Watch Committee") [likely Argentine "military humiliation"; expects GOA to adopt "overtly hostile stance towards the US"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Report prepared in the CIA ("Spot Commentary: Falklands Situation - British Commence Attack Against Darwin/Goose Green") [published 2015]
PDF 82 May 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: Deputy Director Gates memorandum for Director & Deputy Director ("DDI Activity Report, 24-28 May 1982") [agency briefed Nat Sec Adviser on Cuban help for Argentina & Casey on Soviet responses] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 May 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Photographic Interpretation Center ("Argentine Naval Combatants" [navy tied up at Puerto Belgrano]) [satellite intelligence] [declassified 2010]
PDF 82 May 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Photographic Interpretation Center ("Military Force, Argentina" [in Buenos Aires area]) [satellite intelligence] [declassified 2010]
PDF 82 May 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Photographic Interpretation Center signal ("Increased Defensive Measures Port Stanley Area") [satellite intelligence] [declassified 2010]
PDF 82 May 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA NIO(W) memorandum to CIA Director & Deputy ("NIO Monthly Warning Assessments: May") [junta preparing for long-term resistance after Falklands defeat, GOA threatening turn to Soviets] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 May 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable (1130Z) ("UK-Argentina: British Military Gains") [capture of Goose Green] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 May 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA press cutting from Washington Post ("Falklands Crisis Reveals Strange Deadfellows") [Jack Anderson account of Argentine role in anti-Sandinista opponents] [this copy declassified 2018]
PDF 82 May 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA press cutting from Washington Post ("Did the U.S. Give Argentina 'A Wink and a Nod'?") ["sources indicate complicity a myth"] [this copy declassified 2018]
PDF 82 May 31 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (CIA) Belize: CIA memo (from Chief, House Liaison) ("Key Points - HAC [House Appropriations Committee] 18 May Briefing") ["Cuban elements in the [Belize] Government"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Jun 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: SCDS(I) briefing for CDS (0815Z) ("Chiefs of Staff Meeting at 0915 Tuesday 1 June 1982") [Exocet, 5 Brigade, BBC treatment of Argentine claim to have damaged HMS Invincible; war graves] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Jun 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs memorandum to Haig ("UK Military Requirements in Defending the Falklands") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Jun 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: President Turbay of Colombia letter to MT (Turbay urges UK to seek peace with Argentina) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: President Turbay of Colombia letter to MT (urges UK to seek peace agreement with Argentina) ["The ending of this war...lies in your hands and depends on your decisions"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USMIS New York telegram to State Department & White House (0549Z) ("Amb Kirkpatrick's Meeting with Generals") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/JIC: Joint Intelligence Committee minutes (JIC(82)31st Meeting) (1330Z) (current assessments; immediate assessments; situation following British repossession of Falkland Islands) [redraft of repossession paper; Mrs Kirkpatrick a recipient of JIC Falklands daily assessments - consideration to be given to changing this] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 9 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Equatorial Guinea: President Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea message to MT (0919Z) (internal situation) [in Spanish] [partly illegible] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA Director note for Cabinet & Agency heads ("Unauthorized Disclosures on the Falklands Situation") ["leaks compromising sensitive collection sources and methods"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Jun 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/JIC: Joint Intelligence Committee minutes (JIC(82)33rd Meeting) (1000Z) (current assessments, immediate assessments; Falkland Islands; assessments forecast) [possible Argentine sabotage, need to examine motivation and capabilities] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: White House telcon of Special Situation Group telephone meeting (1335-1347Z) (Falklands conflict) [CIA had unconfirmed reports of Exocets going from Libya to Argentina] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: USMIS New York telegram to State Department & the White House (2127Z) ("Amb Kirkpatrick's Meeting with Argentine Acting Perm Rep Amb Listre") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: Intelligence Memorandum prepared in the CIA ("The Falklands Dispute: Implications for US Relations with Latin America") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Jun 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA briefing for Director ("Note for the DCI - Morning Developments") [Galtieri willing to accept ceasefire] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Jun 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: Memorandum for the record ("Breakfast Meeting with Secretary Haig, Eagleburger, DCI and DDCI on 15 June 1982: Falklands") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Jun 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Burt & Enders memorandum to Haig ("The Falklands: Next Steps") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Jun 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily ("UK-Argentina: Surrender Announced") [information from MT's office] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Jun 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Officer for Warning memorandum ("NIO/W Contribution to the Watch Committee") [angry Argentine reaction to surrender will force Galtieri to increase "defiance of Britain and the US"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Jun 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1815Z) ("East-West Sanctions") (NSC 0051) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 82 Jun 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (CIA) Falklands: Deputy Director Gates memorandum for Director & Deputy Director ("DDI Activity Report, 14-18 June 1982") [Casey briefed on "The Impact of the Falklands on Global High Technology Transfer"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Jun 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: Special National Intelligence Estimate ("Short-Term Prospects for Central America") [Falklands damage to US position in Central America "not likely to be substantial"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Jun 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable ("Argentina-UK: Diplomatic Hard Line") [Argentine government aiming to "deflect internal criticism" of surrender; EC sanctions] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Jun 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Council memorandum ("Monthly Warning Assessment: Latin America") [possible Argentine moves towards Soviets] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Jun 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Argentina: CIA Information Report (2014Z) ("Views of Brigadier Generals of the Argentine Army on the errors made by former President Leopoldo Galtieri") [account of 18 Jun meeting] [declassified 2018]
PDF 82 Jun 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: White House memorandum for President (“Talking Points - Haig”) [line for President to take in conversation dismissing Haig] [declassified 2006]
PDF 82 Jun 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) International law: National Security Council minutes (1600Z) ("Law of the Sea") (NSC 0053) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 82 Jul 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: NSC record of conversation (Argentine Ambassador Takacs, Brigadier General Mallea Gil) [aftermath of the Falklands conflict] [published 2015]
PDF 82 Jul 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: National Intelligence Council of the CIA memorandum to Director & Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence ("Short-term Argentine Intentions") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Jul 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UKE Washington telegram 2388 to FCO (2120Z) (“Siberian Pipeline and Poland”) [the New York Times story: easing of US sanctions] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable ("UK: Defense Policy After the Falklands") [Defence White Paper - future cuts expected] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Jul 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1600Z) ("US-EC Economic Relations") (NSC 0054) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Spt 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Defence Intelligence Staff minute for DGI ("Falkland Islands Inquiry") [annotated catalogue of key MOD papers 1979-82, as submitted to Franks] [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Jul 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1630Z) ("United States Policy Towards Eastern Europe") (NSC 0056) [declassified Feb 2008]
PDF 82 Jul 27 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: Henderson Valedictory Despatch ("US Policy in the Falkands Crisis with some Valedictory Comments on US/UK Relations") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Research group on projection of the Western case) [“countering of Soviet propaganda”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jul 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable ("Argentina: Military Maneuvering") [new dictator under pressure over Falklands defeat] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Jul 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable ("Panama: Regional Security Plan") [post-Falklands plan to exclude US not winning wide support] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Aug 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: National Security Council minutes (1410Z) ("Lebanon Situation") (NSC 0057) [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 82 Aug 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1700Z) ("US-EC Steel Dispute and Soviet Sanctions Implementation") (NSC 0058) ["The President said that he had tried to get the Europeans to pressure the Polish Government ... but no one had listened"] [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 82 Aug 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1910Z) ("START") (NSC 0059) [declassified Feb 2006]
PDF 82 Aug 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: NSC staff memorandum to President's Assistant for National Security Affairs ("Improving Relations with Argentina") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Aug 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: Special National Intelligence Estimate ("Implications of the Falklands Conflict for Territorial Disputes in Latin America") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Aug 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (CIA) Falklands: CIA Special National Intelligence Estimate ("Implications of the Falklands Conflict for Terrirotial Disputes in Latin America") ["heightened irrendentist rhetoric ... but ... on balance dampened effect on prospects for an outbreak of hostilities elsewhere in the region"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Aug 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Italy: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable (new government) [Spadolini returns old cabinet to office; elections avoided] [declassified Spt 2009]
PDF 82 Sep 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: Special National Intelligence estimate ("Argentina's Nuclear Policies in Light of the Falklands Defeat") [published 2015]
PDF 82 Sep 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Senior Interdepartmental Group on International Economic Policy minutes (1900Z) ("Oil and gas equipment and technology export sanctions on the Soviet Union") [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 82 Sep 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3014 to FCO (1945Z) ("Falklands: General Assembly") [US stance on prospective UN resolution calling for UK/Argentina negotiations] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Sep 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Senior Interdepartmental Group on International Economic Policy minutes (2130Z) ("Poland-related Sanctions") [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Aug 2019]
PDF 82 Sep 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1430Z) ("Pipeline Sanctions") (NSC 0061) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 82 Sep 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1600Z) ("Polish Debt, the Private Sector Initiative for Poland, and the Latin American Debt") (NSC 0062) [declassified Feb 2008]
PDF 82 Oct 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Italy: CIA Office of European Analysis briefing for Attorney-General (“Spadolini II: From the frying pan into the fire”) [Craxi unable to force elections or secure premiership] [declassified]
PDF 82 Oct 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National health: MT letter to Ralph Howell MP (NHS Management Inquiry) [have discussed with Norman Fowler your proposal for an inquiry] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) US-Japan relations: National Security Council Minutes (1820Z) ("NSSD-6: US-Japan Relations") (NSC 0063) [NSSD-6 approved] [declassified Spt 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 13 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Security: Whitelaw PS letter to No.10 (“Report of Lord Bridge’s Inquiry into the Trestrail affair”) [review of vetting procedures] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Oct 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised industries: No.10 minute to MT (“Statement on Steel”) [EC/US agreement] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Oct 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) International economic policy: CIA National Intelligence Council Memorandum ("The Implications of the LDC Debt Problem") [Argentina & Mexico turning local problems into "one that involves the health of the international financial system"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Oct 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: State Department memorandum ("US Policy Towards South America in the wake of the Falklands Crisis") [damage "manageable on most matters"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1900Z) ("Central America") (NSPG 0047) [briefing by Duane Clarridge, head of CIA Latin American Division] [declassified Oct 2005]
PDF 82 Nov 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National health: Fowler PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Statement on NHS pay") [text of Fowler statement to House] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3610 to FCO (0140Z) (Noraid gun running trial) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1430Z) ("Allied Agreement on East-West Trade and Poland-related Sanctions") (NSC 0065) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 82 Nov 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Belize: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable ("Belize: Move to the Left") [Price foreign policy "may be moving Belize slowly into the leftist camp"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 82 Nov 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1800Z) ("M-X Basing Decision") (NSC 0066) [declassified Oct 2012]
PDF 82 Nov 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Latin America/Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1400Z) ("Issues and Objectives for President's Latin American Trip") (NSC 0067) [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 82 Dec 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 27 to FCO (“Mr Prior’s visit to the United States”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Pym record of conversation (European Council, 3/4 Dec) [handwritten notes of talks] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1913Z) ("M-X") (NSC 0068) [declassified Apr 2010]
PDF 82 Dec 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Energy: National Security Council minutes (1913Z) ("Alternative Energies") (NSC 0069) [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Export credit subsidies and risks”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1900Z) ("US Relations with the USSR") (NSC 0070) [discussion of study] [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 82 Dec 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) US: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Meeting with Mr. George Shultz: 17 December 1982”) [international economic situation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 191 to FCO (1015Z) ("Afghanistan: SitRep") [released Jul 2018]
PDF 83 Jan 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Argentine Intentions: Military Actions Concerning the Falklands") [published 2015]
PDF 83 Jan 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“The Franks’ Report”) [comments on proof version] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) US-Japan relations: National Security Council minutes (1545Z) ("Visit of the Japanese Prime Minister") (NSC 0071) [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 83 Jan 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("Preparations for Round III of START") (NSC 0072) [declassified Spt 2006]
PDF 83 Jan 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1810Z) ("Discussion of Defense Program") (NSC 0073) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 83 Feb 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (National Security Council) Falklands: Draft Interagency Group Paper ("Possible Argentine Moves against the UK in the South Atlantic/Antarctic: Assessment and US Options") [published 2015]
PDF 83 Feb 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) US-Japan relations: National Security Council minutes (1505Z) ("Secretary Shultz's Report of Asia Trip") (NSC 0074) [declassified Dec 2010]
PDF 83 Feb 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Ingham letter to Ministry of Defence (“Nuclear weapons and public opinion”) [nomination of Roger Jackling to represent No.10 on Committee; transcript of BBC interview with Paul Warnke] [declassified 2016]
PDF 83 Feb 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKCG New York telegram to FCO (“Gun Running Trials”) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Feb 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Hugo Young interview with MT, The Sunday Times ("I am much nearer to creating one nation than the Labour Party will ever be") [released 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1810Z) ("Briefing on Defense Guidance") (NSC 0075) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 83 Feb 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: MT letter to Ted Leadbitter MP (Michael Whitney Straight) [MT confirms that Canadian television interview with Straight contained no new information] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 83 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1730Z) ("Export Administration Act") (NSC 0076) [President approves sanctity of contract provision] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 83 Apr 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1600Z) ("Poland") (NSPG 0061) [debt rescheduling] [declassified Jun 2006]
PDF 83 Apr 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Statement on the Defence Estimates 1983”) [nuclear deterrent and arms control] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1507Z) ("Strategic Forces Modernization") (NSC 0077) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 83 Apr 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Grenada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Grenada") [Commonwealth Secretary-General forwards letter from Government of Grenada asking for assistance "in the prevention of aggression by the United States against Grenada"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("Briefing on Soviet Technology Acquisition Effort") (NSC 0078) [declassified Nov 2005]
PDF 83 May 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1725Z) ("Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR)") (NSC 0080) [declassified Jun 2010]
PDF 83 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: ex-Prime Minister Balsemao letter to MT (on departure from office) [overview of his time in government, relations with the UK, and his political future] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 83 Jun 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Portugal: Prime Minister Balsemao of Portugal message to MT (UK-Portugal relations) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: Interagency Intelligence Assessment ("Prospects for Soviet Arms Deliveries to Argentina") ["only as a last resort would Argentina move to major purchases"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 83 Jul 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Italy: CIA National Intelligence Daily (“Italy: Political Maneuvring”) [DC leaders see advantage in Craxi premiership] [declassified Jan 2012]
PDF 83 Jul 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: Director of Central Intelligence Casey memorandum to President Reagan ("Report of Intelligence Activities") [published 2015]
PDF 83 Aug 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Prime Minister González letter to MT (re-establishment of democracy in Chile) ["we should jointly seek the way for an initiative"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Sep 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Honduras: President Cordova of Honduras letter to MT (situation in Central America) [in Spanish] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Hungary: CIA National Intelligence Daily (Hungary; Soviet hard currency problems) [Eastern European financial crisis] [declassified 2010]
PDF 83 Sep 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Middle East: National Security Council Minutes (1502Z) ("START/Lebanon") (NSC 0088) [declassified Apr 2006]
PDF 83 Sep 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 146 to FCO (1830Z) ("Afghanistan: Expulsion of US Diplomats") [situation report] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 83 Sep 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Hungary: Vice-Presidential Memcon (Bush meeting with Ceausescu) [four hour conversation] [declassified 2010]
PDF 83 Sep 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Hungary: Vice-Presidential Memcon (Bush meeting with Kadar) [Kadar’s views of Andropov] [declassified 2010]
PDF 83 Sep 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US & Canada: Acland letter to Armstrong ("Prime Minsiter's Visit to Canada and the United States: 25-30 September") [draft 'game plans'] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Hungary: CIA National Intelligence Daily (“Implications of Debt Rescheduling”; Hungary) [financial crisis] [declassified 2010]
PDF 83 Oct 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Belize/Falklands: Jack Anderson article for Washington Post ("Thatcher's Bit of Pressure Angers Reagan") [CIA marked copy of article] [declassified Jan 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet Defector: Mr Oleg Bitov") [announcement to press that request for asylum has been granted] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 23 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Grenada: North and Menges memorandum for McFarlane ("Grenada input for NSPG") [detailed timetable for invasion, including calls to MT] [declassified Mar 2008]
PDF 83 Oct 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Agricultural Holdings Bill") [rent formula; timing of Bill's introduction] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Grenada: Parsons minute to Coles ("Grenada") ["It is becoming increasingly obvious that [the US] had been planning the Grenada move for some time"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Grenada) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Indian Minister for External Affairs: 1 - 4 November") [US invasion of Grenada; MT visit to India/Commonwealth HoG meeting; Steering Brief] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Press Office briefing (“Soviet Union and INF talks”) [“Press Line”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Lawson message to UKHC New Delhi (Advisory Committee meeting in New York: loans to Argentina) [warning to Jeremy Morse] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1600Z) ("Strategic Defense Initiative") (NSC 0096) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East/Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1600Z) ("Libya & Oil and Gas Export Control Issues") (NSC 0097) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 83 Dec 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("The Rising Costs of Defence Procurement") [proposal to set up interdeparmental working group to address Defence procurement value for money & scope for greater collaboration and standardisation withing NATO] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Falklands: Paper prepared in the Central Intelligence Agency ("Argentina-UK: Status of the Falklands Dispute") [published 2015]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Home Secretary's PS letter to No.10 ("Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein") [powers available] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Helmut Schmidt on Current Issues”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 (the Sakharovs) [advice on request from relatives to meet with MT, to procure her assistance in persuading Soviet authorities to grant travel abroad for Mrs Bonner-Sakharov, for medical treatment] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Efrem & Tatiana Yankelovich) [request for MT's assistance in persuading Soviet authorities to grant travel abroad for Dr. Sakharov's wife, for medical treatment] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The Polygraph") [GCHQ pilot scheme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Budapest telegram 71 to FCO (1445Z) ("Hungarian views on the Prime Minister's Visit in the light of Chernenko's succession") [Ambassador Unwin, Deputy Foreign Minister Esztergalyos: record of conversation: Hungarian government pleased by success of MT's visit] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Bishop of Liverpool letter to Jenkin (situation in Liverpool) [“a generation which has already grown up with no prospect of work”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1600Z) ("Combatting Terrorism") (NSPG 0086) [new NSDD; DOJ objections] [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) France: National Security Council Minutes (1900Z) ("Visit of French President Francois Mitterrand") (NSC 0102) [declassified Spt 2013]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) Belize: Defense Intelligence Agency letter to CIA Director (Guatemalan rebels (FAR) being supplied logistics network from Belize) ["High Belize Government officials are said to be aware ... the long suspected FAR network in Belize appears to be a fact"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gibraltar: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Gibraltar") [negotiations with Spain over accession to EC/normalisation of border relations with Gibraltar; MT approves Howe message to Morán, on condition Hassan has no reservations; MT rules out linking Rapier contract to Gibraltar] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Brussels European Council) [first day] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO record of conversation (Brussels European Council) [second day] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East/energy: National Security Council Minutes (1900Z) ("Iran-Iraq War: the Energy-Economic Dimension") (NSC 0103) [declassified Spt 2013]
PDF 84 Mar 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (AEI) EC: Brussels European Council - Presidency Conclusions
PDF 84 Mar 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council/NSPG Minutes (1900Z) ("Nuclear Arms Control Discussions") (NSC 0104) [declassified Feb 2006]
PDF 84 Mar 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 13th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Economic Affairs, Miners' Strike) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua: mining of ships") ["The toll is now four merchant vessels damaged in last month plus two Nicaraguan fishing boats... Nicaraguan MoD... saying mines are US manufactured"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: UKE Athens telegram 179 to FCO (1630Z) ("Attack on Member of Joint United States Military Assistance Group (JUSMAG)") [assassination attempt on a Sergeant] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 84 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: President Ortega letter to MT ("Nicaraguan Ports") ["We trust... that your government will support the draft resolution submitted by Nicaragua at the Security Council"; vote has already taken place, with UK abstaining, by time letter reaches No.10] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: FCO letter to No.10 ("Forged Recording of PM-Reagan Telephone Conversation") [origin of recording unclear: CIA considers KGB unlikely; press attribute tape to punk band CRASS] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nicaragua: UKE Washington telegram 1146 to FCO (0156Z) ("Nicaraguan Ports") ["French offer on mine-sweeping... the [US] Administration are infuriated"] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (1800Z) (MT, Jeane Kirkpatrick) [chemical weapons; Soviet concerns about risk of surprise US nuclear attack; the Gulf; Soviet penetration of Iran/Nicaragua; Lebanon; MT visit to Hungary; Eastern European support for USSR in event of war; US election campaign] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Portugal: Ingham minute to MT ("Portugal - Interviews") [schedule; lines to take; key issues/questions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) El Salvador: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("El Salvador") [representation at International Fair] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 84 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Paul Channon letter to Paddy Ashdown MP (US extraterritorial jurisdiction, COCOM and related matters) [possible CIA operation against British companies in the computer technology field] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO telegram to UKE Washington (1605Z) ("Soviet concern about a surprise NATO attack") [MT agrees paper to be passed to US on confidence-building measures relating to nuclear command post exercises] [declassified Dec 2018]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: National Security Planning Group minutes (1730Z) ("Escalation in the Gulf War") (NSPG 0089) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 84 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Security: No.10 letter to Lord Thomas of Swynnerton (Donald Maclean's espionage activities) [MT warned of book proposal suggesting Maclean did more damage to American interests than previously supposed] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Summit") [suggests role for Foreign Ministers alongside Heads of Government in press briefing; MT rejects] [released Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: FCO record of conversation (“London Economic Summit: Terrorism”) [foreign ministers’ meeting: Vienna Convention, state-sponsored terrorism, measures to tackle terrorism, link between terrorism and drug trade] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC 101(84) 20th (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Howe minute to Leon Brittan ("Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs: Prevention Report") [comments on Brittan proposal for inter-Departmental group] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Central America: National Security Planning Group minutes (1800Z) ("Central America") (NSPG 0091) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 84 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Central America: National Security Planning Group minutes (1500Z) ("Central America and Proposed Presidential Finding on Technology Modification") (NSPG 0093) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 84 Jul 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: President Figueiredo message to MT (Latin American debt) [good progress at London summit, need for further dialogue] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign policy: FCO Planning Staff minute for MT (“Is Intervention Ever Justified?”) [paper for post-Grenada seminar on international law] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Thomas minute to MT (Thomas' visit to Russian and Anglo-Soviet roundtable) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Personnel Work Action Programme: Report on Progress, mid-1984") ["last July, you asked me... [for] a progress report after a year... the report records very encouraging [progress]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("IMF Membership for Poland") (NSC 0109) [declassified Jan 2018]
PDF 84 Aug 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Pakistan/non-proliferation: National Security Planning Group minutes (1500Z) ("Pakistan and NSDD-99 Work Program") (NSPG 0094) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Central America: National Security Planning Group minutes (1800Z) ("Review of the [words redacted] and Central America Special Activities") (NSPG 0095) [declassified May 2015]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Jordan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Heseltine, Luce & others) [Arab/Israel; arms sales; Saudi Arabia; Syria; Egypt; Libya/Morocco; Iran/Iraq] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1500Z) ("Next Steps in the Vienna Process") (NSPG 0096) [militarization of space] [declassified Dec 2015]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing ("Daily Coal Report - Thursday 20 September 1984") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Seminar on Possible Conflict of Principles in Foreign Policy 1 October") [programme; participants; discussion document; opening statement] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne note to Turnbull (MT meeting with Sherman) [notes] [released 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 873 to FCO (0001Z) ("Cyprus: Prime Minister's meeting with President Kyprianou") [John Thomson, Pérez de Cuéllar: record of conversation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Jenkin PS letter to Rees PS (“Local authority capital expenditure - announcement”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 letter to Jenkin PS (“Abolition of the GLC: avoidance of controls”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Seminar on Possible Conflict of Principles in Foreign Policy: Chequers, 1 October") [comments on key points in attached paper circulated to Ministers & officials] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2934 to FCO (1607Z) ("The Presidential Campaign") [state of play] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("East/West Relations") [note on recent background & views on general policy guidelines for coming year] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Mexican Ambassador letter to MT (London Economic Summit) [message from Latin American leaders on trade, financing and debt] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3159 to FCO (0445Z) ("The Presidential Campaign") [report on second & final televised debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Central America: National Security Council Minutes (1930Z) ("Contadora Process") (NSC 0110) [declassified Spt 2017]
PDF 84 Nov 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Mrs Gandhi's Funeral") [briefs on UK/India relations, Indian internal and external affairs, bilateral meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Foreign policy: Hoskyns letter to MT (letter from Laurent Murawiec of the Schiller Institute) [concerns about the rise of the Green party in West Germany] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Paddy Ashdown MP letter to MT (possible CIA operation against British companies in the computer technology field) ["very serious questions which ought to be investigated"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (CIA) International economic policy: CIA National Intelligence Estimate 3-84 ("The Political Repercussions of the Debt Crisis on Major LDCs") [Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Nigeria, the Phillipines, Venezuela] [declassified 2009]
PDF 84 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Booth minute to MT ("Law and Order/Picket Violence and Victimisation") [miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Washington telegram 3395 to FCO (2025Z) ("Cyprus: Secretary General's Initiative") [advance notices of messages to be sent from Reagan to key players in the negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Letter from Paddy Ashdown MP") [advice & draft MT response to allegations of possible CIA operation against British companies in the computer technology field] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: MT letter to Paddy Ashdown MP (possible CIA operation against British companies in the computer technology field) ["there is no need for an inquiry"] [declassified Jan 2014]
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