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82 Nov 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Lord Thomas letter to MT (election of Andropov) [reactions of three experts on Soviet Union] [released Dec 2017] |
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83 Nov 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Trudeau, Fowler) [East/West relations; Trudeau proposal for conference of the nuclear powers ] [released Dec 2014] |
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83 Nov 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Yugoslavia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yugoslav Prime Minister Planinc) [tête-à-tête: East/West, non-alignment, arms race, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia's economy & copies of speeches made at lunch] [declassified Jan 2014] |
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84 Feb 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: FCO briefing ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow 13/14 February East/West Relations") [need to restart arms control talks, need for political understanding, bilateral relations] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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84 Feb 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit of Chancellor Kohl: 28 February”) [declassified 2014] |
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84 Feb 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit of the Dutch Prime Minister, Mr Lubbers, on 2 March”) [main brief] [declassified 2014] |
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84 Jun 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (FCO) |
EC budget: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Fontainebleau European Council) [settlement of British budget question] [declassified 2008] |
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84 Oct 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Liaison Committee (documents for meeting) [agenda and papers] [released 2014] |
|
|
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] |
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84 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: Cabinet Office briefing book ("Anglo-Italian Summit 18-19 October 1984") [FCO, Treasury & other departments contributing] [declassified Feb 2014] |
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84 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Libya, Falklands at the UN, European Community, CERN, financial issues, East-West relations, Middle East] [declassified 2014] |
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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] |
 |
84 Nov 7 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Suomen Kuvalehti (Finnish weekly journal) |
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|
84 Dec 7 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference for American correspondents in London |
|
|
84 Dec 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: FCO letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev's Visit: Briefing") [general briefing] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
84 Dec 17 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC (“I like Mr Gorbachev. We can do business together”) |
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84 Dec 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: US State Department brief (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
84 Dec 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: President Reagan's briefing cards for Camp David meeting [declassified 2000] [81K scanned image] |
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|
84 Dec 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] [117K scanned image] |
|
|
84 Dec 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [Strategic Defence Initiative, civil aviation, US economy, Middle East, famine in Africa, UK-Irish relations] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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|
84 Dec 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting at Camp David (record of conversation) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
84 Dec 22 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference after Camp David talks (the "Camp David Declaration") |
|
|
85 Jan 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of VE Day") [FCO advice & lines to take for Questions in Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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|
85 Jan 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 minute for MT (“Anglo-German Summit”) [overview of briefing plan] [declassified 2015] |
|
|
85 Jan 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [tete a tete: German domestic scene, UK economy, international economic questions, East-West relations, SDI, commemoration of the 40th anniversary of VE Day, Falklands-Argentina] [declassified 2015] |
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85 Feb 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: FCO briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s visit to Washington. 19-21 February”) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Feb 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: State Department briefing for President Reagan (MT visit) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Mar 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Canada: No.10 record of conversation (“Meeting between the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. Mulroney, at the British Embassy, Moscow on 13 March 1985 at 1730”) [Mulroney’s priorities: US alliance and economic relationship; federal-provincial relations; budget deficit; SDI] [declassified December 2014] |
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85 Mar 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT - Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney) [Canada; SDI] [declassified 2014] |
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|
85 Mar 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Ingham minute for MT (“Press Conference”) [media see MT as most important visitor at Chernenko funeral] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Mar 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Egypt: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mubarak, Howe, Luce, Urwick, Meguid, el Sharif, Gamzuri, Sharara) [Gorbachev/communism; Arab/Israeli negotiations; Lebanon; Sudan; Libya] [released Dec 2018] |
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85 Mar 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 9th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, football hooliganism) [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Mar 14 Th |
Press |
Major |
Commentary (The Sun) |
Cold War: “Mrs T meets Mr G!” (“One hour of talking opens way for US”) [Chernenko funeral] |
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|
85 Mar 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Moscow despatch to FCO (“The death of Chernenko and Gorbachev’s succession”) [“Despite his pragmatic personal style, [Gorbachev] is a dedicated communist”] [declassified 2014] |
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85 Mar 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Heseltine note circulated to Cabinet - C(85) 8 (Statement on the Defence Estimates 1985) [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Mar 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Shultz note on Gorbachev letter (helpful) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Mar 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("European Council: Briefing Meeting") [released Dec 2014] |
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|
85 Mar 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 12th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Defence Estimates, exchange rates, GLC, tv license fee) [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Apr 22 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Der Spiegel |
|
|
85 Apr 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: UKE Washington telegram 1378 to FCO (0230Z) ("The Second Reagan Administration and the Approach to the Bonn Summit") ["with the re-election honeymoon over, the administration is in a bad patch"; "1986 mid-terms begin to cast a long shadow"] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Apr 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: Howe PS briefing for MT (“Call on the Prime Minister by Mrs Geraldine Ferraro”) [Vice-Presidential candidate] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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|
85 Apr 28 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Canada: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of the Canadian Prime Minister") [objectives to consolidate relationship with Mulroney, discuss Bonn Summit] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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85 Apr 28 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Radio Interview for BBC Radio 4 It’s Your World (phone-in) |
|
|
85 Apr 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Canada: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mulroney-Howe and others) [Canadian politics and economy, Bonn summit, Canada-US relations, defence] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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|
85 May 1 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Wall Street Journal |
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|
85 May 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 briefing cards for MT ("Bilateral with President Reagan") [US budget deficit, new GATT round, unitary tax] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 May 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan bilateral) [international monetary conference, exchange rates, new GATT round, Japan, political declaration, Strategic Defence Initiative, UN anniversary] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 May 4 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Nakasone bilateral) [Strategic Defence Initiative, East/West relations, Korea, Taiwan, Bosphorus Bridge] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 May 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 17th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, coal industry, Bradford stadium fire) [most confidential record discussion of RPI] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 May 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Howe PS briefing for MT (“Chancellor Kohl’s visit to Chequers: 18 May”) [declassified 2014] |
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85 May 18 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [East/West relations, arms control, Strategic Defence Initiative] [declassified 2014] |
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85 Jun 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
China: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Zhao Ziyang) [on Hong Kong MT "said there appeared to be no major outstanding problems"; East-West relations; Sino-US relations] [released 2017] |
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85 Jun 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Middle East: US Embassy London memo for Shultz (“The Secretary’s meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher, June 7”) [King Hussein, terrorism and peace talks] [declassified 2013] |
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85 Jun 7 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, George Shultz) [Middle East; East/West relations; economic questions] [declassified 2014] |
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85 Jun 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Parliament: Cabinet Office letter to Private Secretaries ("The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [request for contributions to the drafts] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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85 Jun 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1934 to FCO (2344Z) ("US/Soviet Relations") [Reagan on prospect of Summit; Gorbachev's visit to France/first meeting with Reagan; Shultz/Gromyko meeting; bilateral relations; air safety talks; annual navy-to-navy talks] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Jun 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO telegram 173 to FCO (1512Z) ("Vice-President Bush's Address to NAC, 28 June") [summary] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Jul 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Soviet Leadership") [election of Gromyko as President of the USSR, of Shevardnadze as Foreign Minister, and the disappearance of Romanov] [released Dec 2017] |
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85 Jul 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (politics, coal, law & order, etc) [bad polls] [released 2015] |
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|
85 Jul 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 23rd (leak, Home Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, US/UK diplomatic relations) [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Jul 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-US Senate Arms Control Group) [arms control, US-Soviet Summit, East-West relations, terrorism, Middle East, EC, economy, Japan, security] [declassified 2014] |
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85 Jul 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Parliament: No.10 minute to MT ("Legislative Programme next Session") [major Government legislation] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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85 Jul 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Howe minute to MT (“Soviet Compliance with Arms Control Agreements: Implications for British Policy”) [declassified 2014] |
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85 Jul 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 2222 to FCO (0316Z) (“Prime Minister’s Visit: Political Subjects”) [Reagan-Gorbachev Summit, Middle East, SDI, South Africa, terrorism, MSE] [declassified 2014] |
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85 Jul 25 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to International Democrat Union |
|
|
85 Jul 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: FCO briefing for No.10 ("The French Prime Minister's visit to London on 1 August") [arrangements; French elections; Falklands; social/economic matters; EC; Channel link; South Africa; Defence; international monetary reform/trade; Soviet Union] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Jul 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("US/Soviet Summit") [request for draft of an MT letter to Reagan expressing UK thoughts on the forthcoming Summit] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Aug 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
USSR: FCO research note ("MS Gorbachev: A Biographical Note") ["Gorbachev belongs to a new generation ... [but] has made his entire career in the Party apparatus, whose cautious and secretive methods have not been relaxed"] [released 2017] |
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85 Aug 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: FCO telegram 784 to UKE Moscow (1716Z) ("Secretary of State's meeting with Shevardnadze") [bilateral relations in political and trade fields, UK-Soviet relations, US-Soviet relations, arms control] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Aug 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Howe press conference transcript ("Press Conference Given by the Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, in Helsinki, on Thursday, August 1, 1985") [Meeting of Foreign Ministers: 10th anniversary of Helsinki Final Act: human rights & East/West relations; Howe's account of his meetings with Shultz and Shevarnadze] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Aug 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Parliament: Tebbit PS letter to Cabinet Office ("The Queen's Speeches on the Prorogation and Opening of Parliament") [amendments to the drafts] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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85 Aug 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MT letter to Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz al Saud (sale of Tornado & Hawk aircraft to Saudi Arabia) ["We consider this an extremely important order"] [declassified Jul 2015] |
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85 Aug 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MT letter to King Fahd bin Abdulaziz al Saud (sale of Tornado/Hawk aircraft and the Middle East peace process) [declassified Jul 2015] |
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85 Aug 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Howe PS minute to Mark Addison ("Call by our Ambassador in Moscow on Mr Gorbachev") [Cartledge summoned; speaking note agreed on bilateral relations, east-west understanding; UKE Moscow tel 1109 28 Aug 0725Z] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Sep 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1128 to FCO (1500Z) ("Gorbachev's Interview with Time Magazine: Comment") [summary & analysis] [released Dec 2017] |
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85 Sep 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Nuclear Testing: Message to the Prime Minister from Mr Gorbachev) [declassified 2014] |
|
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85 Sep 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["US/Soviet Summit": MT message to Reagan in advance of Summit] [released Dec 2014] |
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|
85 Sep 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("US/Soviet Summit") [MT criticises FCO draft of letter to President Reagan as "worse than useless"; Powell offers options for redraft] [released Dec 2014] |
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|
85 Sep 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("Geneva Arms Control Talks: Western Strategy") [cover minute for FCO paper] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Sep 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("US/Soviet Summit") [redraft of letter to President Reagan] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Sep 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Gorbachev letter to President Reagan (US/Soviet relations & disarmament) [declassified 2014] |
|
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85 Sep 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: MT letter to President Reagan (US/Soviet Summit in Geneva, November 1985) [countering Gorbachev 'propaganda' campaign; stresses need to aim for substantial outcomes from Summit; SDI/arms control; human rights; Afghanistan; McFarlane pre-meeting with MT] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Sep 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: General Secretary Gorbachev letter to President Reagan (US/Soviet Summit in Geneva, November 1985) [agenda; desired outcomes; Shultz/Shevardnadze meeting; joint document] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Sep 12 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Al Ahram |
|
|
85 Sep 16 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister's Tours Abroad: No.10 minute to MT ("Visits Abroad 1986") [summary of fixed dates; futher proposals; MT agrees to visit Norway in September 1986] [released Feb 2016] |
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85 Sep 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (1529Z) (US/Soviet Summit in Geneva, November 1985) [human rights; SDI/arms control negotiations; McFarlane pre-meeting with MT] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Sep 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2608 to FCO (0248Z) ("Presidential Press Conference, 17 September, Preparations for Geneva") [US/Soviet arms control negotiations: record of Reagan's statement] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Sep 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Charles Powell message to Robert McFarlane (US/Soviet Summit) [invitation to US National Security Advisor to meet with MT, to discuss forthcoming Reagan/Gorbachev talks] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Sep 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKMIS New York telegram 731 to FC (0003Z) ("Secretary of States Meeting With Shevardnadze: 23 September") [record of conversation: Howe, Shevardnadze: expulsions/KGB activity in UK; US/Soviet Summit: arms control; Middle East; militarisation of space] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Sep 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Secret Intelligence Service letter to Charles Powell ("Gordiyevskiy") [CIA director Casey calling on MT, 27 Spt; Gordievsky's information on US-Soviet relations, renewed arms talks] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Sep 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("McFarlane: Middle East") [Arab/Israel conflict; additional briefing attached: Iran/Iraq; arms control; South Africa/Namibia; Central America; US arms sales to Argentina] [released Dec 2014] |
|
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85 Sep 28 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert McFarlane) [summary note of topics discussed, with records-by-topic attached] [released Dec 2014] |
|
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85 Sep 29 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: George Shultz letter to Geoffrey Howe (US/Soviet Summit in Geneva: President Reagan & Secretary of State Shultz's advance meetings with Shevardnadze) [impressions] [released Dec 2014] |
|
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85 Sep 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2732 to FCO (1645Z) ("Proposal for a Summit 7 Meeting in New York: 24 October") [Reagan invite to Economic Summit Seven lunch, to brief on his plans for his meeting with Gorbachev] [released Dec 2014] |
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85 Sep 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1276 to FCO (0800Z) ("Gorbachev/Mitterrand Meeting: The Soviet Approach") [French media advance coverage; likely agenda; context-setting] [released Dec 2014] |
|
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85 Sep 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (US/Soviet Summit, Geneva, November 1985) [invitation to the leaders of the seven Economic Summit countries to discuss Reagan's plans for his meeting with Gorbachev] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Oct 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to New York") [Reagan invite to Economic Summit Seven lunch, to brief on his plans for his meeting with Gorbachev; programme options] [released Dec 2014] |
|
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85 Oct 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Kinnock attacks Militant) [“Mail leads with ‘The courage of Kinnock’”] (released 2015] |
|
|
85 Oct 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: MT message to President Reagan (1040Z) (US/Soviet Talks) [meeting of the seven economic summit countries to discuss Reagan's forthcoming meeting with Gorbachev] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Oct 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Kohl) [Charles Powell highlights passages for MT on economic Summit Seven lunch; arms control; SDI research; discussion of MT dismay over Kohl's failure to observe "special confidence" in regard to draft treaty on PoCo and security matters; UK/FRG relationship; Luxembourg Council] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Oct 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Powell minute for MT (Anglo-German proposal on MBFR: draft reply to President Reagan's letter) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Oct 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Howe draft letter to Shultz (US/Soviet Summit in Geneva: Soviet counter-proposals) [outline of Howe's initial impressions of the proposals; Charles Powell advises redraft to emphasise need for US to present fresh proposals of their own] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Oct 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: 18 November 1985") [French domestic situation, east/west relations, EC, bilateral relations, Channel link] [declassified Feb 2019] |
|
|
85 Oct 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Commonwealth: Commonwealth Secretariat record of conversation (CHOGM first executive session) [Armstrong comments on draft record of MT's remarks] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
85 Oct 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 6 to UKDEL Nassau (2030Z) (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan”) [subjects for discussion] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Oct 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
USSR: UKMIS Geneva telegram 428 to FCO (1058Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Joint Statement") ["They agreed about the need to improve U.S.-Soviet relations and the international situation as a whole"] [released 2017] |
|
|
85 Oct 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1730Z) ("Briefing on President's Participation in UNGA [UN General Assembly]") (NSC 0124) [discussion of upcoming bilateral with MT; President noted "the Thatcher Government has been a true friend and currently faces major economic problems ... anything we can do would be helpful"; unitary taxation] [declassified Spt 2017] |
|
|
85 Oct 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Commonwealth: CHOGM Secretary minute (draft communique) [disarmament, small states, Southern Africa] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
85 Oct 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Howe to UKDEL Nassau (“Prime Minister’s Meeting with President Reagan: Arms Control Aspects”) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Oct 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: CHOGM statement (“The Nassau Communique”) [commitments and resolutions] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
85 Oct 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: MT briefing cards (meeting with Reagan) [Achille Lauro, Gorbachev/arms control, UN speech, South Africa, SDI, Middle East, MSE, MBFR, Ireland, trade] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Oct 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: McFarlane message to No.10 (MT-Reagan meeting) [two new agenda items] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Oct 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKMIS New York telegram 935 to FCO (2320Z) (“President Reagan’s meeting with allied leaders”) [arms control negotiations at Geneva] [declassified 2014] |
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85 Oct 24 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference after addressing UN General Assembly |
|
|
85 Oct 24 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC (visiting UN) |
|
|
85 Oct 24 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for ITN (visiting UN) |
|
|
85 Oct 24 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Radio Interview for IRN (visiting UN) |
|
|
85 Oct 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hungary: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Mr Kadar: 31 October - 2 November") [General Secretary János Kádár; "the Hungarians see Kadar's visit to London as the most significant event in Anglo-Hungarian relations since the War"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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|
85 Oct 26 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1 to FCO (1800Z) ("US/Soviet Meetings in New York") [record of conversations: Reagan, Shevardnadze; Shultz, Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Oct 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: FCO letter to Cabinet Office (“Anglo-German summit: 27 November 1985”) [draft list of briefs for MT] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Oct 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2958 to FCO (1830Z) (“SDI Participation”) [extracts from a Washington Post article] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Oct 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Reagan letter for MT (The Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) negotiations: the UK proposals) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Oct 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Charles Powell note to MT (BBC interview with President Reagan) [transcript with key passages highlighted] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Oct 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 30th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Northern Ireland) ["a few members of the Cabinet expressed grave reservations", but most thought on balance right to conclude agreement; Anglo-Irish Agreement accepted, to be presented as "a modest but useful step forward"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Oct 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Industry, law & order, politics, etc) [“Kilroy-Silk in Common scuffle with Jeremy Corbyn”] [released 2015] |
|
|
85 Nov 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“CHOGM: South Africa: Mr Gandhi”) [Gandhi’s attempts to correct impression that UK is intransigent and pro-South African] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
85 Nov 2 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: MT letter to President Reagan ("President Reagan's Briefing of NATO") [MT signs off on Charles Powell's amendments to FCO draft, highlighting her recent meeting with Kadar & his insights into Gorbachev's thinking on arms control/SDI] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Anglo-French Summit: 18 November") [arrangements, press conference, participants] [declassified Feb 2019] |
|
|
85 Nov 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("President Reagan's Briefing of NATO") ["your voice will count for more than any other after the de-briefing... we should together consider the kind of media programme... you should undertake"] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (President Mitterrand's visit) [Rainbow Warrior affair, New Caledonia, UN Falklands resolution, east-west relations] [declassified Feb 2019] |
|
|
85 Nov 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: President Reagan message to MT (US/Soviet Summit) [agenda; thanks for MT support] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1469 to FCO (1700Z) ("Secretary Shultz in Moscow - 4/5 November: Summit Prospects") [record of conversations: Gorbachev, Shultz, Shevardnadze, McFarlane, Dobrynin, Hartman; and Shultz, Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1469 to Deskby (1730Z) ("US NAC Briefing on Shultz's Moscow Talks") [details] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Amman telegram 596 to FCO (1326Z) ("Jordan/PLO") [summary of King Hussein, Rifai, Arafat conversations on 29/30 Oct: joint approach to peace process at stake] [released Jul 2016] |
|
|
85 Nov 6 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on the Address] |
|
|
85 Nov 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: UKE Paris telegram 962 to FCO (1812Z) ("Prospects for the Anglo-French Summit: 18 November") [Anglo-French relations in "a rough patch"] [declassified Feb 2019] |
|
|
85 Nov 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3101 to FCO (2100Z) ("Shultz's Visit to Moscow, and Summit Prospects") [analysis] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [French motives, Channel link, Falklands, Inter-Governmental conference, east-west relations] [declassified Feb 2019] |
|
|
85 Nov 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1490 to FCO (1330Z) ("Geneva Summit, 19/21 November: Final Preparations") [attendees; topics; media arrangements; outcomes] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [want impression to go out of "a reasonably functioning Anglo-French cooperation"] [declassified Feb 2019] |
|
|
85 Nov 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: UKE Paris telegram 993 to FCO (1701Z) ("The Anglo French Summit") [Mitterrand press conference prompted by French internal issues] [declassified Feb 2019] |
|
|
85 Nov 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1499 to FCO (0820Z) ("Summit Preparations") [US/Soviet summit in Geneva] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3157 to FCO (0236Z) ("The Summit: Presidential Broadcast") [US/Soviet summit in Geneva: details of Reagan address to the nation] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3183 to FCO (2000Z) ("Geneva Summit: Regional Issues") [US/Soviet summit: Afghanistan; Nicaragua; Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia; the Middle East] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3180 to FCO (2356Z) ("Geneva Summit Prospects") [US/Soviet summit: analysis] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 17 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Ireland: Press Digest for MT (Northern Ireland lead topic) [with selected articles] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [Channel link, China, east-west relations and arms control, European Council, CAP, EC parliament and treaty, Falklands] [declassified Feb 2019] |
|
|
85 Nov 18 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Joint Press Conference with French President (Francois Mitterrand) |
 |
85 Nov 19 Tu |
Chronology |
Major |
[Chronology] |
Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Geneva (ended 21 Nov) |
|
|
85 Nov 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3188 to FCO (0050Z) ("The Anglo-Irish Agreement: US press reactions") ["In American news terms... a one day wonder... guarded optimism"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 423 to FCO (1434Z) ("Reagan/Gorbachev Summit: News Blackout") [details] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: MT letter to Secretary General of NATO ("Reagan/Gorbachev Summit: News Blackout") [President Reagan to address NATO meeting on outcomes of US/Soviet summit: handling of the meeting] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Nov 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Nov 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between the First Ladies) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Nov 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Nov 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Nov 19 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (impromptu dinner toasts) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Nov 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Brussels, 21 November: President Reagan's Briefing of the NAC") [North Atlantic Council] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 20 We |
Press |
Major |
Shultz (George) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs) |
|
|
85 Nov 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Nov 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 5th Session [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Nov 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 6th Session [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Nov 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between First Ladies) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Nov 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Nov 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (closing conversation) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Nov 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: FCO briefing for MT ("Category 1 visit by Johannes Rau: 21-22 November) [East/West relations; defence; arms control] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 428 to FCO (1400Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Joint Statement") [text] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKDel NATO record of conversation (1937Z) (MT, Reagan, Wilfried Martens, Kohl, Willoch, Mulroney, Craxi, Özal, Schlüter, Cavaco Silva, Lubbers, Santer, Geoffrey Howe, George Shultz, Ordóñez, Dumas, Charalambopoulos, Hermansson, Carrington) ["Reagan/Gorbachev Meeting, Geneva, 19-20 November: President Reagan's Briefing of North Atlantic Council, 21 November"] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 186 to UKDel NATO (1245Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Initial Views on Joint Statement") [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: FCO News Department minute to Howe PS ("Geneva Summit: Gorbachev's Press Conference") [summary of main points] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("US/Soviet Summit: update on Briefing for NAC") [initial impressions of the outcomes; advice on line to take for media; transcript of MT press conference attached] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 33rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [televising Commons] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reagan report to meeting of NATO Leaders (Geneva Summit) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
85 Nov 21 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference on Geneva Summit |
|
|
85 Nov 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Johannes Rau) [US/Soviet relations; INF Middle East; chemical weapons; ABM Treaty and SALT II; Anglo-German summit; access to markets in Europe] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3232 to FCO (0330Z) ("Report to Congress") [Reagan on US/Soviet Summit] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Prague telegram 233 to FCO (1130Z) ("Gorbachev in Prague") [account of Gorbachev's report, on US/Soviet summit, to meeting of the Warsaw Pact members] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1524 to FCO (1400Z) ("US/Soviet Summit: Soviet Press Presentation of the Outcome") [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit of Mr McFarlane") [proposed questions to put to US National Security Advisor, following his recount of US/Soviet summit] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 23 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, McFarlane, Price) ["US/Soviet Summit: Briefing by Mr McFarlane"] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1135 to FCO (1705Z) ("Geneva Summit: German Reaction") [views of Kohl & Genscher] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Anglo-German summit, 27 November: Five Wise Men’s report on the FRG economy”) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 26 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
85 Nov 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3293 to FCO (2000Z) ("US/Soviet Summit") ["Some glosses on the Joint Statement"] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("First Thoughts on the Summit") [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [“Plenary session of the Anglo-German summit”] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [Anglo-German summit: tête-à-tête] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks for Chequers visit with Bud McFarlane) [McFarlane’s read out on the summit; “how much longer he can stand the pace is open to question”] [released 2015] |
|
|
85 Nov 27 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Joint Press Conference with West German Chancellor (Helmut Kohl) |
|
|
85 Nov 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Kinnock attacks Militant) [“Kinnock says Militant Tendency is a maggot in the body of the Labour Party”] [released 2015] |
|
|
85 Nov 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1551 to FCO (0900Z) ("Gorbachev's Speech to the Supreme Soviet") [details & analysis] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Nov 29 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("US/Soviet Summit") [MT dismisses FCO's proposed draft message to Gorbachev regarding outcomes; "I will try to draft another if time permits"] [released Dec 2014] |
|
|
85 Dec 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Draft Declaration on East-West Relations”) [“The text is better with the passages in square brackets included, but we could live without them”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
85 Dec 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 3345 to FCO (1645Z) (“Shultz’s visit to Europe next week”) [Shultz “satisfied that the alliance is in pretty good shape after the Geneva summit, and that trade problems between the community and the US manageable”] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
85 Dec 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Mr McFarlane’s Briefing to the Prime Minister 23 November: SDI”) [McFarlane cited “the threat from Soviet mobile mirved systems as a prime justification for the SDI”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
85 Dec 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Post Geneva summit US/Soviet Activity”) [appointment of US ambassador, Reagan message on human rights] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
85 Dec 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Shultz) [Reagan-Gorbachev arms control talks: movement on Arab/Israel conflict] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Jan 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (FCO) |
Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1985 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
|
|
86 Jan 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 3 to FCO (2300Z) (“Future US/Soviet meetings”) [conflicting reports of proposals for additional summits] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Jan 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute for MT ("Association of American Correspondents") [“by a long chalk the best group I brief” - "very international in outlook", but deeply interested in Britain and will want to ask about Westland/Heseltine] [released Jan 2017] |
|
|
86 Jan 8 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Le Figaro (0930Z) |
|
|
86 Jan 10 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference for American correspondents in London |
|
|
86 Jan 13 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference for American Press (CSIS Group) |
|
|
86 Jan 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 115 to FCO (1700Z) ("Gorbachev's Statement on Arms Control") [text of President Reagan's statement] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Jan 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [Heseltine walks out of Channel 4 interview] [released 2017] |
|
|
86 Jan 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (FCO) |
Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1985 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007] |
|
|
86 Jan 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Paris to FCO ("Bilateral Talks on Nuclear Matters") [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Jan 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Gorbachev Proposals on Arms Control") [detailed assessment] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Jan 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control: Message to President Reagan") [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Feb 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Geneva Arms Talks: NAC Briefing, 3 February") [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Feb 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Call by Mr Nitze on the Prime Minister: 1630 on 5 February") [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Feb 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Nitze) [arms control: Gorbachev's proposals] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Feb 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Powell minute for Cradock ("Message to President Reagan on Arms Control") [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Feb 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: FCO briefing to Cabinet Office ("Anglo-Italian Summit: 12 March 1986") ["...it is always important to show the Italians that we take them seriously"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
86 Feb 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("US Response to Gorbachev Proposals") [MT's draft message for President Reagan & NATO meeting on arms control] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Feb 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("SDI and US Strategy at Geneva: Message to President Reagan") [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Feb 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control: Message to President Reagan") [draft] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Feb 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MT letter for President Reagan (MT's thoughts on arms control issues) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Feb 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO (SCG Quint Meeting: response to Gorbachev's proposal) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Feb 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1512Z) ("Canada") (NSC 0129) [Canada attempting to restrict imports of US films, the President said he could not blame them] [declassified Oct 2017] |
|
|
86 Feb 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("German/Italian summit") [G5; Single European Act; Middle East; INF; East-West relations & Eastern Europe] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
86 Feb 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Arms Control: Response to Gorbachev Proposals") [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Feb 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Northern Ireland) [breakthrough on strike deadlock] [released 2017] |
|
|
86 Feb 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: FCO letter to No.10 (“Developments in the European Community: July-December 1985”) [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Mar 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Nuclear Arms Control: US Consultation with NAC") [less achieved than hoped] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 Mar 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 538 to FCO (2100Z) (“Timing of US/Soviet summit”) [“Press reports of US impatience at Soviet delay in agreeing a summit date are exaggerated”] [released Dec 2015] |
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86 Mar 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (British Leyland) [takeover bid] [released 2017] |
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|
86 Mar 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit meeting in Florence: Italian press comment") [extradition; terrorism; East/West relations; Tokyo economic summit; nuclear defence; EEC; Middle East] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Mar 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Craxi of Italy) [Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence, tête-à-tête] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Mar 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence) [Younger, Spandolini, officials] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Mar 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Hurd, Younger, Geoffrey Pattie, Craxi, Andreotti, Scalfaro, Spadolini, Granelli) [Anglo-Italian Summit in Florence, plenary] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Mar 12 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Joint Press Conference with Italian Prime Minister (Bettino Craxi) |
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86 Mar 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (law and order) [rape and crime statistics] [released 2017] |
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86 Mar 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 680 to FCO (2355Z) (“Shultz meeting with Ryzhkov: 15 March”) [timing of a further US-Soviet summit] [released Dec 2015] |
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86 Mar 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Planning Group minutes (1600Z) ("RSVP Options") (NSPG 0130) [Arms control - Responding to Soviet Violations Policy] [declassified Dec 2005] |
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86 Mar 29 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Nuclear Testing: Gorbachev Statement on Soviet Television") [declassified 2014] |
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|
86 Apr 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Moscow Press Conference: Gorbachev's Statement on Testing and Message to UN Secretary-General") [declassified 2014] |
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86 Apr 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: summit prospects”) [US ambassador’s “disappointment with the current Soviet approach to East/West relations”] [released Dec 2015] |
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86 Apr 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 884 to FCO (0445Z) (“US-Soviet relations”) [“No date yet for summit, but summer not yet ruled out”] [released Dec 2015] |
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86 Apr 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Bilaterals at the Tokyo Economic Summit") [proposed meetings; Howe request to participate in Reagan meeting] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Apr 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [farewell call: Anglo-Soviet relations, arms control, East-West relations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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86 Apr 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, law and order, economy) [Reagan attacks terrorist targets] [released 2017] |
|
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86 Apr 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Australia: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit of the Australian Prime Minister”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Apr 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Australia: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke of Australia) [common agricultural policy, relations with the US, EC economic policy, East-West relations, trade with Japan, Australian economy] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Apr 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Libya, economy, Northern Ireland) [released 2017] |
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86 Apr 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Soviet Compliance with Arms Control Agreements") [draft message to President Reagan] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Apr 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MT message for President Reagan (US response to the Soviet record on compliance with arms control agreements) [her views] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Apr 26 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chirac) [France's relations with New Zealand, defence cooperation, relations with US, EC issues, CAP, Middle East, arms control] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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86 Apr 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [Gorbachev's message: Tokyo Economic Summit, East-West relations, arms control, terrorism, Chernobyl accident] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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86 May 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 18th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 May 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl, prison dispute, private schools) [released 2017] |
|
|
86 May 3 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference in Seoul |
|
|
86 May 4 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Ireland, Japan, East/West relations, Soviet nuclear accident, EC/US, Korea] [declassified 2014] |
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86 May 4 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War, Libya, etc: White House record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Shultz, Regan, Poindexter) [terrorism, Libya, Middle East, South Africa, Northern Ireland; G7, trade, East/West, Chernobyl, EC enlargement, South Korea] [declassified 2011] |
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86 May 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [GATT Round, European Community Budget, CAP, EC/US, East/West relations] [declassified 2014] |
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86 May 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [brief bilateral on GATT round, EC budget, CAP, EC/US, East/West relations; Kohl - "Gorbachev was in deep trouble"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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86 May 6 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference after Tokyo G7 |
|
|
86 May 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Chernobyl fears, local elections/by-elections, unions, industry) [released 2017] |
|
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86 May 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Howe minute for MT ("Arms Control and the UK Contribution") [declassified 2014] |
|
|
86 May 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 593 to FCO (1310Z) (“Gorbachev meeting with Hammer and Gale on 15 May”) [Gorbachev “accused official Washington of exploiting the accident to discredit the Soviet Union”] [released Dec 2015] |
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86 May 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (arms control) ["political will alone is not enough"] [released 2017] |
|
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86 May 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1347 to FCO (2305Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“State believe Gorbachev in bitter mood over Western handling of Chernobyl issue”] [released Dec 2015] |
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86 May 23 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: President Reagan's message for MT (Compliance with Arms Control Agreements) [declassified 2014] |
|
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86 May 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Message for President Reagan: Compliance with Arms Control Agreements") [declassified 2014] |
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86 May 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: President Reagan letter to MT (US/Soviet negotiations and arms control issues) [declassified 2014] |
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86 May 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (MT’s position on Israel public spending, education) [released 2017] |
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86 May 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: President Reagan’s message to Gorbachev”) [Reagan calls for a second summit] [released Dec 2015] |
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86 May 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1461 to FCO (2130Z) (“Invitation to Soviet defence minister to visit the US”) [“to discuss quote the wide gulf on issues related to each other’s military forces, doctrine and intentions unquote”] [released Dec 2015] |
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86 May 31 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Howe message to UKDEL NATO ("Ministerial Meeting of The North Atlantic Council, Halifax 29/30 May: Afternoon Session") [declassified 2014] |
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86 Jun 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Howe minute for MT ("Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB): UK Public Posture") [declassified 2014] |
|
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86 Jun 3 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
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86 Jun 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("US/Soviet Relations and Arms Control") [declassified 2014] |
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86 Jun 4 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Women’s Conference |
|
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86 Jun 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 22nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Jun 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Call on Zagladin: East/West relations”) [proposals for second summit, SALT II] [released Dec 2015] |
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86 Jun 14 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Dr. Armand Hammer letter to Soviet Ambassador to the UK (US/Soviet relations) [follow-up to meeting] [released Jul 2017] |
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86 Jun 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1632 to FCO (2230Z) ("President Reagan's Glassboro Speech: East/West and Arms Control") [declassified 2014] |
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86 Jun 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: FCO briefing for MT (“Briefing for European Council, The Hague 26-27 June 1986”) [Internal market; Citizen's Europe; Post-Chernobyl; Drugs; Research and Development; Mediterranean Policy; EC/Turkey; Acid Rain/Large Combustion Plants Directive; PM's closing words on the Dutch Presidency; East/West] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Jun 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 1673 to FCO (2205Z) ("President Reagan's Interview with the Los Angeles Times") [new Soviet proposals in Geneva: arms control] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Jun 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1672 to FCO (2200Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“apparently no progress on summit dates”] [released Dec 2015] |
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86 Jun 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa, domestic politics, Northern Ireland) [released 2017] |
|
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86 Jun 25 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Forbes Magazine |
|
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86 Jun 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Talks with President von Weizsacker: 2 July") [to discuss: east/west relations, Berlin, terrorism, South Africa, European Community issues] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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86 Jun 27 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference after Hague European Council |
|
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86 Jul 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Gorbachev's Letter to Reagan") [declassified 2015] |
|
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86 Jul 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to the United States") [MT agrees to need for bilateral in November or December] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Jul 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1759 to FCO (2240Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“there is no progress on fixing a Shultz/Shevardnadze meeting”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
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86 Jul 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Mikhail Gorbachev message to MT (Soviet-American summit) ["no breakthrough, or even a change for the better in the international situation, is yet apparent"] [released 2017] |
|
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86 Jul 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Gorbachev letter to MT (UK/Soviet/US Relations) [scene-setting for MT meeting with Shevarnadze, and invitation to MT to visit USSR] [released Jul 2017] |
|
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86 Jul 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Gorbachev message to MT (visit of Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs to London: arms control) [message delivered personally to MT by Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2016] |
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86 Jul 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 840 to FCO (0600Z) ("Soviet Foreign Minister's Visit to London: Background") [briefing for Howe: "assessments of the man, the priorities of the Soviet leadership and Soviet objectives for the visit"] [released Dec 2016] |
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86 Jul 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 1835 to FCO (2126Z) ("Soviet Foreign Minister's Visit to London, 14-15 July") [US/Soviet relations; key points to raise wiht Shevardnadze] [released Dec 2016] |
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86 Jul 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Shevardnadze") [main issues] [released Dec 2016] |
|
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86 Jul 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Shevardnadze, Cartledge) [message from Gorbachev ; East/West relations & arms control; human rights; terrorism; Afghanistan; Chernobyl] [released Dec 2016] |
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86 Jul 15 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
86 Jul 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: UKE Washington record of conversation (2045Z) (Howe, Reagan, Shultz) [extradition treaty; South Africa: sanctions; Communist penetration of the ANC; Soviet Union/Gorbachev] [declassified Feb 2016] |
|
|
86 Jul 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (Powell, Soviet Ambassador) [Soviet economy, arms control, MT's visit to Washington, possible visit by Gorbachev, Afghanistan] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
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86 Jul 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO briefing for MT ("Arms Control: Discussion with Ambassador Paul Nitze, 22 July") [declassified 2015] |
|
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86 Jul 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 899 to FCO (1530Z) ("Foreign Minister Genscher's Visit to Moscow: Community Briefing by German Political Director on Talk with Gorbachev and First Session with Shevardnadze") [released Jul 2017] |
|
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86 Jul 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Arms Control: President Reagan's Proposed Response to Mr Gorbachev") [declassified 2015] |
|
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86 Jul 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: USE London to State Department ("Thatcher desire to see the President before any summit with Gorbachev") [Powell says she may propose mid-Nov visit, possibly over a weekend] [declassified 2008] |
|
|
86 Jul 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Cradock minute for Powell ("Arms Control: President Reagan's Message to Mr Gorbachev") [declassified 2015] |
|
|
86 Aug 7 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2061 to FCO (2200Z) ("UK/Soviet Expert Level Contacts on Arms Control") [declassified 2015] |
|
|
86 Aug 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet-American relations) [Reagan keen to have a second summit] [released 2017] |
|
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86 Aug 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: MT letter to Gorbachev (East/West relations) [MT visit to USSR; second US/Soviet summit; arms control; UK defence forces; chemical weapons] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
86 Aug 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: MT letter to President Mitterrand (meeting with Gorbachev in July 1986) ["Your views on Mr. Gorbachev and his aims closely match my own"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
86 Sep 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (South Africa sanctions, Commonwealth Summit, Tebbit’s position) [released 2017] |
|
|
86 Sep 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Daniloff: comment”) [“The Russians may well have miscalculated”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Sep 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Nissan plant opens, NUM, Labour economic policies) [released 2017] |
|
|
86 Sep 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Cradock minute to No.10 (“Daniloff”) [“A Summit is now in jeopardy”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
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86 Sep 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2314 to FCO (1545Z) (“Secretary of State’s meeting with Weinberger: 9 September”) [“A disturbing insight into right-wing attitudes on arms control”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
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86 Sep 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Norway: Ingham minute to MT ("Your press conference") [MT visit to Norway] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
86 Sep 12 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference visiting Norway |
|
|
86 Sep 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Department of Defence record of conversation ("Plenary meeting") [Younger, John Stanley, Andre Giraud, Viot and others] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
86 Sep 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Reagan message to MT (proposed summit with Soviets) [“A constructive outcome … will depend heavily on intensive consultations and the maintenance of allied unity”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Sep 16 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at dinner following Anglo-German Summit |
|
|
86 Sep 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [miners’ strike, Liberal assembly, east-west relations, economy] [released 2017] |
|
|
86 Sep 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKMIS New York telegram 890 to FCO (1620Z) (“President Reagan’s briefing of NATO ministers”) [discussions with Soviets on Daniloff and arms control] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Sep 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKMIS New York telegram 908 to FCO (1640Z) (“Secretary of State’s bilateral with Shevardnadze, 23 September”) [“A businessmanlike discussion which covered a lot of ground in one hour”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Sep 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: USE London to State Department ("Visit by Prime Minister Thatcher to Washington") [Powell says MT thinking of 14-15 Nov; visit "a la December 1984"] [declassified 2008] |
|
|
86 Sep 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: USE London to State Department ("British Elections") ["our stake in the outcome of that election cannot be overstated"] [declassified 2008] |
|
|
86 Sep 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet Relations: Gorbachev’s approach march to a summit”) [“the indications are that he sees the potential gains as outweighing the risks”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Sep 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet pre-summit”) [advice to Reagan] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Sep 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Gorbachev message to MT (proposed US-USSR summit) [“the whole process of Soviet-American dialogue was in need of a serious impulse”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Sep 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Reagan message to MT (US-USSR to hold summit in Reykjavik) [“symbolically important that Mr. Gorbachve suggested holding the meeting on the soil of a member of the NATO alliance”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Sep 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: MT message to Reagan (US-USSR summit in Reykjavik) [“I see this as a very positive step”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Sep 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Shultz message to Howe (announcement of US-USSR summit in Reykjavik) [“we believe that progress in U.S.-Soviet relations is possible, and we remain committed to achieving it”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Sep 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2487 to FCO (2242Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [US, Soviet aims for Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: John Kerr note (asks White House to explore 14/15 Nov visit) ["main purpose to discuss US-Soviet summit"] [declassified 2008] |
|
|
86 Oct 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Mrs Thatcher's Request to Meet with the President") [suggests a small Friday meeting in Washington; do not break President's weekend] [declassified 2000] |
|
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86 Oct 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Mrs Thatcher's Request to Meet with the President") [acknowledges President "wants to do the event at Camp David"] [declassified 2008] |
|
|
86 Oct 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“US/Soviet relations: prepatory summit”) [“External and internal developments since the Geneva summit have increased the risks inherent in a visit by Gorbachev to the USA”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2439 to FCO (2200Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“Initial press verdict on latest developments reasonably positive, with spotlight shifting from Daniloff to Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Bill Davis memo (conference material) [“Don’t, please go into too much detail”] [declassified Jan 2017] |
|
|
86 Oct 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour party conference, Reagan-Gorbachev summit) [released 2017] |
|
|
86 Oct 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 32nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
86 Oct 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour party conference, BBC chairman, industry, east-west summit) [released 2017] |
|
|
86 Oct 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (Reykjavik summit) [hopeful for results on arms control] [released 2017] |
|
|
86 Oct 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute (“US/Soviet meeting in Reykjavik: message to President Reagan”) [“I think the President’s eyes may glaze a bit”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: MT message to Gorbachev (proposed US-USSR summit) [“it should be possible to reach agreements … on reductions in arms”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Paris telegram 981 to FCO (1541Z) (“Reykjavik summit: French reactions”) [“The government continues to be nervous of US concessions on INF”] [released Dec 2015] |
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86 Oct 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“US-Soviet Meeting in Reykjavik: Message to President Reagan”) [“The INF field contains at present the best prospect for an agreement (though not at Reykjavik)”] [released Dec 2015] |
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86 Oct 4 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2538 to FCO (1946Z) (“Prospects for Reykjavik”) [“the core of the substantive discussion will be on arms control”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: MT message to Reagan (eve of Reykjavik summit) [“INF seems to offer the best prospect for agreement on arms reductions”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Tory party conference, MT’s speech, Labour party conference, South Africa) [released 2017] |
|
|
86 Oct 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Reagan message to MT (eve of Reykjavik summit) [“prepared for serious exchanges in all four areas of the U.S.-Soviet agenda”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram 841 to FCO (1740Z) (“Kohl’s messages”) [“Kohl supported the US position on LRINF … he stressed the importance of conventional arms control as well”] [released Dec 2015] |
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|
86 Oct 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet pre-summit”) [MT’s message to Reagan on Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram 277 to FCO (1823Z) (“Reykjavik meeting: NAC briefing by Nitze and Ridgway: other arms control and East/West issues”) [“Human rights will head US agenda”] [released Dec 2015] |
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86 Oct 11 Sa |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (ended 12 Oct) |
|
|
86 Oct 11 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 1st Session [declassified 2000] |
|
|
86 Oct 11 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 2nd Session [declassified 2000] |
|
|
86 Oct 12 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram 283 to FCO (1253Z) (“Reykjavik summit: NAC briefing by Shultz”) [“Shultz said that beneath the disappointment of the moment was a positive sense that possibilities had been opened up for far-reaching arms control agreements”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 12 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Reykjavik telegram 95 to FCO (2330Z) (“Reagan/Gorbachev meeting”) [Gorbachev said “an historic opportunity had been missed”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 12 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 3rd Session [declassified 2000] |
|
|
86 Oct 12 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000: the crucial session] |
|
|
86 Oct 12 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th session [declassified 2000; second version] |
|
|
86 Oct 12 Su |
Press |
Key |
Shultz (George) |
Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs) |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2613 to FCO (0140Z) (“Reykjavik meeting”) [“The US media are baffled by the breakdown of talks”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2617 to FCO (0250Z) (“Reykjavik summit”) [“a set-back for the President … there is now no immediate prospect of the substantive summit here on which he had set such store”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Reagan-Gorbachev talks, industry, terrorism) [released 2017] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: White House record of conversation (Reagan-MT) [Reykjavik summit] [declassified 2010] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet summit”) [press points on outcome of Reykjavik] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“US Soviet summit”) [urges she call Reagan - worry that President will “use his television appearance this evening to point [sic] himself further into the corner on SDI”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Points to make to President Reagan” - phone call) [“It is clearly the Soviet aim to sow dissension in the Alliance”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call on Reykjavik summit) ["Reagan said he had put forward a radical proposal under which the US would guarantee not to deploy a strategic defence system for ten years in return for an undertaking to eliminate all US and Soviet nuclear weapons over that same period"] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1195 to FCO (1500Z) (“Reykjavik summit: preliminary view from Moscow”) [“Gorbachev put an unexpectedly high price - severe SDI constraint - on agreement in other arms control areas … which me must have known Reagan would be unlikely to pay”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan phone call) ["particularly sensitive" points on ABM, Reagan's pride in proposal to eliminate nuclear weapons in ten years; President's admiration for Tom Clancy book] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Radio Interview for BBC (1200Z) (“Mr Tim Renton on World at One, Monday 13 October 1986”) [“what I think is surprising is that President Reagan and Mr Gorbachev did get so far in discussing important details”] [this copy released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Reykjavik summit”) [draft message from MT to Reagan: “I want to congratulate you on getting so close to a new range of agreements”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Reykjavik summit”) [draft message from MT to Reagan designed “to deny Gorbachev the easy propaganda points for which he may now be looking”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting with Karpov”) [“By making agreement on all issues dependent on acceptance of their terms on SDI, they doomed the meeting to failure”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [MT “said she had been very disturbed by Soviet tactics at Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. Karpov”) [“Karpov said that the Soviet side had gone to Reykjavik in the hope of achieving concrete results”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram 858 to FCO (1815Z) (“Reykjavik: initial German reactions”) [“the door is not closed”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: FCO draft (Lady Young statement to House of Lords on Reykjavik) [“We believe it imperative that both sides return to the Geneva Nuclear and Space Talks”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2619 to FCO (0330Z) (“President Reagan’s television address”) [“we’re closer than ever before to agreements that could lead to a safer world without nuclear weapons”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2128 to FCO (2345Z) (“Reykjavik summit: US reactions”) [“Widespread concern among the experts at the US proposal for mutual abolition of all ballistic missiles”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Reagan-Gorbachev talks, Westland) [released 2017] |
|
|
86 Oct 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with President Mitterrand") [Mitterrand seeking to upstage Chirac, Reagan's nuclear weapons proposals, EC issues, agriculture, Middle East] [declassified Feb 2019] |
|
|
86 Oct 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Bonn telegram 860 to FCO (1400Z) (“Reykjavik summit: German views”) [Teltschik said “perhaps it was just as well that the meeting in Reykjavik had broken up when it did”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1209 to FCO (1630Z) (“Reykjavik meeting: Gorbachev’s television statement”) [“performance designed to show the extent of Soviet efforts to secure agreement”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Reagan-Gorbachev talks, interest rates, industry) [released 2017] |
|
|
86 Oct 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand-Attali) [French views on Reykjavik proposals on arms control, Reagan and Gorbachev's positions, future of nuclear weapons and tests] [declassified Feb 2019] |
|
|
86 Oct 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 33rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, prorogation/opening of parliament) [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
86 Oct 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Geneva summit on arms control, immigration, economic problems interest rates, industry) [released 2017] |
|
|
86 Oct 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Sommer memo for Poindexter ("Thatcher Visit") [suggests early announcement in view of UK story that MT had cancelled following Reykjavik] [declassified 2008] |
|
|
86 Oct 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2665 to FCO (2358Z) (“Reykjavik: President’s conversation with the Prime Minister”) [Reagan said the summit “had cleared the way for an agreement on INF despite Soviet insistence on linkage”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 18 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2666 to FCO (1900Z) (“Reykjavik”) [“President launches SDI as Congressional election campaign issue … Polls show support for the President’s handling of the issue at Reykjavik”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 21 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2415 to FCO (1925Z) (“US/Soviet relations”) [“Lengthy Shultz/Shevardnadze discussions, over-shadowed by hand pounding, and no progress, on Daniloff”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram 1245 to FCO (1200Z) (“US/Soviet relations: television address by Gorbachev”) [Gorbachev “insisted that his package of arms control proposals remain on the table”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Shultz telegram to Reagan (LRINF zero zero option accepted by MT) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
86 Oct 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit to Washington: Arms Control") [declassified 2015] |
|
|
86 Oct 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Conservative Central Office analysis (BBC news coverage of US Libya raid) [coverage "far from being balanced, fair and impartial"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
86 Oct 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2768 to FCO (2200Z) (“Post-Reykjavik arms control negotiations”) [“Unsatisfactory discussion with Poindexter”] [released Dec 2015] |
|
|
86 Nov 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Shultz's San Francisco Speech: 31 October") [Reykjavik summit/arms control; next steps: "distinctly worrying"] [released July 2016] |
|
|
86 Nov 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKDEL NATO letter to No.10 (UK Security Policy Post-Reykjavik) [thoughts on the changing nature of US/Western European relations] [released July 2016] |
|
|
86 Nov 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to the Soviet Union") [timing] [released Dec 2016] |
|
|
86 Nov 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Charles Powell note to MT ('Time' magazine: President Reagan's Account of Reykjavik) [MT: "very worrying"] [released July 2016] |
|
|
86 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("UK/Soviet Relations: Gorbachev's Position") [declassified 2015] |
|
|
86 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [unredacted version] [declassified 2000] |
|
|
86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Poindexter briefing for President Reagan (MT visit) ["concerned about the strategic implications of your Reykjavik proposals"] [declassified Jul 2000] |
|
|
86 Nov 15 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for ITN (Camp David talks) |
|
|
86 Nov 16 Su |
Press |
Major |
Commentary (Sunday Times) |
Cold War: "Thatcher wins Reagan pledge to sell Trident" (Camp David meeting) |
|
|
86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: US Embassy London to State Department (British party reaction to Reykjavik Summit) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
86 Nov 17 Mo |
Press |
Major |
Commentary (The Times) |
Cold War: "Thatcher talks fail to bridge chasm" & "Reagan tells Thatcher Soviet-US deal would not affect UK deterrent" (Camp David meeting) |
|
|
86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo/French Summit") [position on EC issues, nuclear cooperation, arms control, east-west relations, terrorism] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Charles Powell note to MT (the new generation of Leadership in the USSR and its impact on East/West relations) [copy of a speech by French Foreign Minister, in advance of MT's meeting with him] [released July 2016] |
|
|
86 Nov 21 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Joint Press Conference with French President (Francois Mitterrand) |
|
|
86 Nov 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [defence and arms control issues, nuclear cooperation, EC immigration, EC Commission, agricultural surpluses] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
86 Nov 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chirac) [southern Africa and Soviet involvement, Middle East, Falklands, Spain, Japan, visit to Moscow, defence and arms control issues, EC budget] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1397 to FCO (1045Z) ("Netherlands Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow 20-22 November") [summary of main points from van den Broek briefing] [released July 2016] |
|
|
86 Dec 3 We |
Press |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Labour Party political broadcast [nuclear missiles] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1504 to FCO (1930Z) ("Prime Minister's Message: Call on Gorbachev") [Cartledge, Gorbachev] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Jan 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (the weather, heating allowance, tax cuts) [released 2017] |
|
|
87 Jan 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: President Mitterrand letter to MT (Speech to the Royal Institute of International Affairs) [future of Europe; UK/French defence policy; transcript of speech] [released Dec 2016] |
|
|
87 Feb 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Zircon affair, rape sentences) [released 2017] |
|
|
87 Feb 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Terry Waite, Zircon affair) [released 2017] |
|
|
87 Feb 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 248 to FCO (0210Z) ("Geneva NST") [speculation on future US/Soviet summits] [released July 2016] |
|
|
87 Feb 5 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
87 Feb 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Anglo-Italian Summit") [submits briefing - "None of it is very riveting ... Anglo-Italian relations are in good shape"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Feb 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow") [Charles Powell, Kossov] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Feb 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Armstrong minute for Charles Powell (meeting of sherpas for Venice G7) [MT highly critical] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
87 Feb 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 conversation record (MT-Italian PM Craxi tête-à-tête; joined later by FM Andreotti, Howe) [situation in Italy; SDI; East/West; Terrorism; Libya; Lebanon; Ferruzzi bid for British Sugar; EC budget] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Feb 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Seminar on the Soviet Union") [academic papers] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Feb 11 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Joint Press Conference with Italian Prime Minister (Bettino Craxi) |
|
|
87 Feb 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (state of the parties, Zircon affair, Mary Whitehouse) [released 2017] |
|
|
87 Feb 22 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with M. Chirac: Chequers, Sunday 26 April") [purpose is to "continue our delicate balancing act between Mitterrand and Chirac"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Feb 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister's Tours Abroad: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Professor Bialer) ("Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union") [released Dec 2016] |
|
|
87 Mar 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gorbachev on arms control, Labour's fortunes) [released 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 2 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks on Soviet arms control proposal ("good step forward") |
|
|
87 Mar 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit to Moscow") [Charles Powell: "Percy Cradock and I would like to talk through with you the objectives and main themes for your meetings with Mr. Gorbachev"] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (ferry disaster, Labour's position, Budget) [released 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Ambassador) [MT's forthcoming visit to the Soviet Union: agenda] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Charles Powell note to MT (Gorbachev's 2nd anniversary in power) [suggests she glance at flurry of press articles] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1600Z) ("South American Democracy") (NSC 0142) [Reagan's vision of a democratic Western Hemisphere; US no longer "the colossus of the north"; first look at policy since post-Falklands review] [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
|
87 Mar 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Armacost") [key issues, with FCO briefing & contemporary items relating to US policy attached] [released July 2016] |
|
|
87 Mar 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Budget, interest rates, election planning) [released 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 21 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Afghanistan: Dr. Armand Hammer letter to MT (Afghanistan) [Hammer asks MT to present his peace proposal to Gorbachev] [released Jul 2018] |
|
|
87 Mar 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USSR: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [arms control, East/West, defence cooperation; EC; Middle East, US, Chad, Lebanon] [released Jul 2016] |
|
|
87 Mar 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [arms control negotiations, impact on British and French weapons, prospect of INF agreement, Gorbachev's reforms, defence cooperation, EC financing, Middle East] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
87 Mar 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Yuri Orlov) [human rights abuses; arms control; release of dissidents; Gorbachev's prospects] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (MT visit to Moscow, Kinnock visit to Reagan, general election) [released 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation ("Quadripartite Meeting of Political Directors: London, 25 March") [Derek Thomas, Rozanne Ridgway, Noiville, Von Richthofen] [released July 2016] |
|
|
87 Mar 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Younger memo circulated to Cabinet - CC(87) 5 (Statement on the Defence Estimates 1987) [declassified Feb 2016] |
|
|
87 Mar 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Soviet Studies Research Centre, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow) [likely Soviet tactics on arms control discussions] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 653 to FCO (0040Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow") [analysis of US administration sentiment towards Gorbachev on eve of MT visit] [released Jul 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (general election, MT visit to Moscow, Kinnock visit to Reagan, Japan) [released 2017] |
|
|
87 Mar 31 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for TV-AM (visiting Moscow) |
|
|
87 Apr 1 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Conservative Party |
Conservative Campaign Guide 1987 |
|
|
87 Apr 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Richard Nixon letter to Julian Amery MP (East/West relations) [US/Soviet arms negotiations; Afghanistan; MT's visit to Moscow] [released July 2016] |
|
|
87 Apr 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (Time magazine cover story) ["Maggie in Moscow"] [released 2017] |
|
|
87 Apr 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Quadripartite Coordination") [FCO advice deemed "Much too cautious" by MT, who continues to push for meetings at Heads of Government level] [released July 2016] |
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87 Apr 14 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (domestic politics, prosecution right of appeal, Heysel extradition) [released 2017] |
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87 Apr 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 613 to FCO (1130Z) ("Shultz Visit to Soviet Union, 13-15 April: Meeting with Gorbachev") [report] [released July 2016] |
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87 Apr 22 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Daily Express |
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87 Apr 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 880 to FCO (0830Z) ("Quadripartite Meetings") [scheduling issues & handling Italian sensitivities] [released July 2016] |
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87 Apr 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
USSR: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (Gorbachev speech on international situation) ["Responsibility for the troubled and dangerous international situation lay with the United States"] [released 2017] |
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87 Apr 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Venice Economic Summit") [thematic paper: world economic situation, trade, agriculture, debt, energy, environment, political issues] [released July 2016] |
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87 Apr 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (MI5, domestic politics, industry) [released 2017] |
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87 May 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1807Z) ("Political Issues for the President's Trip to Europe") (NSC 0147) [Venice G7, Rome, Berlin & Bonn; MT leaving early due to her election campaign] [declassified Dec 2005] |
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87 Jun 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Howe PS to Charles Powell ("Venice Economic Summit: Prime Minister's Bilaterals") [briefing for Reagan meeting, contingency brief for any meeting with Italians, points for any other chance meetings] [released Dec 2016] |
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87 Jun 7 Su |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Venice Economic Summit") [points to make to the press] [released Dec 2016] |
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87 Jun 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Charles Powell conversation record (G7 leaders at dinner) [East/West relations & arms control; terrorism; South Africa] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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87 Jun 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No. 10 conversation record (Heads of Government dinner - MT-Kohl-Mitterrand-Reagan-Martens-Nakasone-Fanfani-Mulroney) [East-West relations, terrorism, South Africa] [released Dec 2016] |
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87 Jun 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-President Reagan; Shultz, Baker, Carlucci, Linhard part of the time) [Iran/Iraq & Gulf; arms control; terrorism; world economy; Syria; Arab/Israel; possible visit to Washington] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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87 Jun 9 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference after Venice G7 |
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87 Jun 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Ambassador Cartledge despatch to Howe ("New Thinking") [analysis of Gorbachev's approach to foreign affairs: summary followed by main despatch] [released Jul 2017] |
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87 Jul 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Heath attack on government policies, law and order, insider dealing) [released 2017] |
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87 Jul 3 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference for American Correspondents in London |
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87 Jul 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, delegation from World Conference on Soviet Jewry) [MT's recent visit to USSR; prospects for Jewish emigration and treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union] [released Dec 2016] |
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87 Jul 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War/Middle East: USE London telegram 14433 to the State Department (1823Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Washington") [Ambassador's conversation with MT at Chequers - topics she wanted to cover] [declassified Nov 2019] |
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87 Jul 11 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Visit to Washington") ["The task is at least to disguise the weakness of American leadership and to restrain any inclination to erratic and ill-thought out initiatives"] [released Oct 2017] |
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87 Jul 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Foreign policy: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (MT obejctives for visit) [arms control and tactics for negotiations with Soviets] [declassified 2013] |
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87 Jul 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Foreign policy: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (MT obejctives for visit) [arms control and tactics for negotiations with Soviets] [declassified 2013] |
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87 Jul 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Foreign policy: Ridgway briefing for Shultz (“Visit of Prime Minister Thatcher: Your briefing of the President, July 16, 5:45pm”) [respective priorities: arms control, Soviet talks, Middle East] [declassified 2013] |
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87 Jul 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Peter Wright's book, poll tax) [released 2017] |
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87 Jul 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (MT visit to US, rates, Peter Wright's book) [released 2017] |
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87 Jul 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Cold War: US State Dept briefing (“Fact Sheet: U.S.-Soviet summit prospects”) [arms control: “We would like agreements if they are ready, but it is not a precondition”] [declassified 2013] |
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87 Jul 17 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for CNN (visiting Washington) (defending Reagan) |
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87 Jul 17 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for CBS Face the Nation (visiting Washington) (defending Reagan) |
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87 Jul 19 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference en route from Jamaica to London |
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87 Jul 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (arms control, the Gulf) [released 2017] |
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87 Jul 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr Carlucci") [Gulf; Arab/Israel; arms control, US/Soviet summit; SDI; Gorbachev; nuclear & intelligence cooperation; South Africa] [declassified Nov 2016] |
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87 Aug 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: US Embassy record of conversation ("Lunch with Soviet Ambassador Zamyatin") [Price, Zamyatin: Gulf; arms control; glasnost & release of Soviet historical documents; economic reforms; Afghanistan; Soviet defence sales to Jordan; US/UK relations] [released Jul 2017] |
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87 Sep 8 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Der Spiegel |
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87 Sep 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 1923 to FCO (2325Z) ("Shultz/Shevardnadze") [analysis of probable content & likely outcome of talks, including prospective US/Soviet summit] [released July 2016] |
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87 Oct 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation ("Quadripartite Meeting of Political Directors: Bonn: 2 October") [John Fretwell, Noiville, Richthofen, Ridgway: Geneva NST/INF; START/ABM; Reagan-Gorbachev Summit; chemical weapons; West/West relations; CSCE; Eastern Europe; Afghanistan; Iran/Iraq; Cambodia/Southern Africa ] [released July 2016] |
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87 Oct 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2205 to FCO (2315Z) ("Summitry") ["Americans... now... thinking in terms of a post-Summit meeting at Heads of Government level"] [released July 2016] |
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87 Oct 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
NATO: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Possible NATO summit" - Reagan against one before his summit with Gorbachev; possible summit in first half 1988] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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87 Oct 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Commonwealth Heads of Government; EC; Howe meeting with Shultz; NATO summit; US economy; aid budget] [declassified Jul 2019] |
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87 Oct 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: No.10 minute ("Diary meeting for Monday 26 October") [Young Environmentalists dinner, London Business School dinner, Save the Children carols, etc] [released 2017] |
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87 Oct 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [East/West relations; Hong Kong stock market; Arab/Israel; Franco-German defence co-operation] [declassified Jul 2019] |
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87 Oct 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Cradock minute to MT ("East/West Relations: Summit and INF Treaty") [speculation on motives behind "Gorbachev's latest maneouvre in resurrecting the SDI precondition for a Summit"] [released July 2016] |
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87 Oct 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2344 to FCO (2240Z) ("US/Soviet Relations") ["joint statement [on next steps]... released following Shevardnadze's talks with President Reagan at the White House on 30 October"] [released July 2016] |
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87 Nov 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: No.10 record of conversation ("Points arising from diary meeting for 1988 held on Monday 2 November") [London Business School invitation, Child Achievement awards, tourism conference, speech on single market, etc] [released 2017] |
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87 Nov 2 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT (Gorbachev's Speech on the 70th Anniversary of the Revolution: analyses and reports) ["dull & disappointing"; Soviet Dept reports] [released Dec 2016] |
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87 Nov 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [Middle East; Syria; US budget deficit; resignation of Weinberger; Gorbachev's position; EC; China] [declassified Jul 2019] |
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87 Nov 3 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1583 to FCO (1500Z) ("Shevardnadze's Visit to Washington") [analysis, based on US account of the visit] [released July 2016] |
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