 |
62 Mar 1 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S [Maternity Benefit (Mrs A.J. Carney)] |
 |
70 Feb 1 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Conservative Party) |
Conservative Party: Selsdon Meeting transcript (morning session) [‘rough’ transcript] |
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|
71 Jul 14 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC I Report [Education (Milk) Bill] |
 |
72 Apr 25 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Radio Interview for BBC French Service |
|
|
73 Apr 1 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Trivial |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks visiting the Scilly Isles ("absolutely delightful") |
|
|
73 Sep 20 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC1 Nationwide |
|
|
73 Nov 20 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Trivial |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC I [Museum Charges (Opposition motion) (Faulds speech)] |
 |
75 Jun 2 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC2 Newsday |
|
|
77 Jul 11 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama |
|
|
77 Oct 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Hailsham MSS) |
Conservative Party: Hailsham diary (discusses Keith Joseph with Whitelaw & Carrington) ["an albatross ... (m)ay bring us down ... attracts barmies"] |
|
|
78 Jul 17 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama |
|
|
78 Sep 27 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Carmarthen Conservatives |
|
|
79 Jun 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
New Zealand: Carrington PS to Michael Alexander ("Visit of Mr Muldoon") [EC, world economic issues, CHOGM, sport, French and US administrations] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
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79 Jul 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Commonwealth: UKE Lusaka to FCO ("Zambia/Rhodesia") [Rhodesian raids in Zambia] [declassified 2009] |
|
|
79 Jul 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Willie Whitelaw minute to MT ("Telvision Licence Fees") [proposal for part funding from advertising would be controversial] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
79 Aug 3 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: McQuillan minute to FCO Departments (BBC External Service cuts) [ministers want to protect World Service and broadcasts to Communist countries] [declassified 2009] |
|
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79 Aug 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Bullard minute on BBC External Services (FCO proposals for cuts) [“Experience has made me suspicious of the BBC’s own figures”] [declassified 2009] |
|
|
79 Aug 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Gow minute to MT ("B.B.C. - External Services") [Ray Whitney MP writes to argue against cuts to BBC External Services] [declassified 2011] |
|
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79 Sep 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cuba: UKE Washington telegram 2558 to FCO (0900Z) ("Soviet Ground Forces in Cuba") [declassified 2009] |
|
|
79 Sep 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Parliament: Ian Gow minute for MT (“Ian Smith”) [famine in Zambia, South African support for Rhodesian government] [released 2017] |
|
|
79 Nov 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [proposed cuts] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
79 Nov 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Cuts: BBC External Services") [FCO support for BBC Capital Expenditure Programme] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
79 Dec 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Gladstone minute on BBC External Services (lunch at Bush House) [vital FCO/BBC be on same side next time; BBC to lay on “suitable claret”] [declassified 2009] |
|
|
80 Jan 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Zimbabwe: President Shagari of Nigeria letter to MT ("Zimbabwe") [South African presence at Beitbridge] [declassified 2010] |
|
|
80 Feb 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Middle East, Iran] [declassified 2010] |
|
|
80 Feb 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Australia: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser of Australia) [post-Afghanistan situation and the US, Iran] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
80 Feb 8 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 642 to FCO (2145Z) (“Reactions to the US budget for FY 1981”) [“little enthusiasm”] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
80 Feb 13 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Zimbabwe: UKMIS New York telegram 297 to FCO (2057Z) ("Rhodesia") [Nyerere letter to Waldheim criticising British Government] [declassified 2010] |
|
|
80 Feb 20 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Panorama") [arrangements for interview] [released 2011] |
|
|
80 Apr 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gibraltar: Carrington minute to MT (“Gibraltar” ) [Lisbon Declaration negotiations] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
80 Apr 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 1589 to FCO (2045Z) ("US Presidential Campaign: Pennsylvania") ["seen as a last chance for Kennedy and Bush to stem the tide running in favour of Carter and Reagan"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
80 May 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Alexander minute to MT ("East/West Relations in the Wake of Afghanistan") [FCO papers] [declassified 2010] |
|
|
80 May 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Vienna Quadripartite meeting (representatives of UK, USA, France, West Germany) [preparation for Venice summit] [declassified 2010] |
|
|
80 Jun 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Paris Quadripartite meeting (UK, USA, West Germany, France) ["Political Discussion at the Venice Summit"] [declassified 2010] |
|
|
80 Jun 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Rome 7-power meeting (preparation for proposed political discussions at Venice summit) [declassified 2010] |
|
|
80 Jun 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Venice summit (quadripartite meeting of representatives) [East/West relations] [declassified 2010] |
|
|
80 Jul 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Angola: UKE Luanda telegram to FCO ("South African attacks into Angola") [report] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
80 Jul 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 2550 to FCO (2335Z) ("The Republican National Convention, Detroit 14-17 July") [report on Reagan's endorsement as Presidential nominee] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
80 Aug 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Carrington minute to MT ("Relations With Our Allies") [MT: "I am very worried about this paper. It is very flimsy and vague. It is a think-piece with the thought left out"] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
80 Aug 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: MOD letter to FCO ("COCOM: Control of Strategic Exports to the Soviet Union") [response to letter from US Defence Secretary Harold Brown] [declassified 2010] |
|
|
80 Aug 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 3779 to FCO (2345Z) ("Democratic National Convention, New York, 11-14 August") [report] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
80 Sep 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 3979 to FCO (2330Z) ("US Presidential Campaign") [participation in first televised debate] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
80 Sep 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Iran-Iraq War: FCO to UKE Belgrade (tripartite breakfast meeting) [UK-France-FRG] [declassified 2010] |
|
|
80 Oct 7 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Iraq: FCO record of conversation (“Quadripartite Meeting of Political Directors, Paris, 6 October”) [Iraq-Iran] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
80 Oct 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Iraq: FCO to UKE Warsaw (“Quadripartite Meeting of Political Directors, 27 October”) [discussion on Iran-Iraq] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
80 Nov 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: President-elect Reagan letter to MT (thanks for her congratulations) [looks forward to another meeting] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
80 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: FCO brief for European Council, Luxembourg, 1-2 December 1980 - EHG(L2)(80) 16 (Political Cooperation) [declassified 2012] |
|
|
80 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Greece: Carrington PS minute to Michael Alexander ("Greece: Call on the Prime Minister by the Leader of the Opposition: 26 November") [points to make on security, economic crisis, future of Europe, relations with developing countries, NATO] [declassified Jul 2016] |
|
|
80 Dec 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Poland: Contingency Planning") [contigency planning in case of use of force by Polish Government, indication that Soviet intervention imminent, Soviet intervention] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
80 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 4879 to FCO (2055Z) ("The Reagan Cabinet") [appointees; biographies] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
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80 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Poland") [discussion of situation in Poland at Foreign Ministers' dinner: contingency planning for Soviet intervention in Poland] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
80 Dec 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: FCO record of conversation (Carrington-French Foreign Minister Francois-Poncet) [Poland, Afghanistan, Uganda, Chad, EC, EC Budget, New Zeland butter and Australian beef] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
80 Dec 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economy: Bush minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Stocktaking Note: Matter for Ministerial Attention") [issues likely to come up for ministerial attention in first quarter of 1981] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
81 Jan 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: FCO to No.10 ("Visit to Britain by President Reagan") [MT: "I think it would be very nice if it were a state visit - even without an open carriage ride"] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
81 Jan 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 257 to FCO (0030Z) ("President Reagan's Government") ["some preliminary comments on the conduct of business, particulary foreign affairs"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
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81 Jan 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 286 to FCO (0050Z) ("Hostages: Washington Reception") [report] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
81 Feb 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: NSC planning for MT visit (dinner guests) [declassified 2006] |
|
|
81 Feb 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1830Z) (“Caribbean Basin & Poland”) (NSC 0001) [preliminary discussion] [declassified 2007] |
|
|
81 Feb 8 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Sherman paper for MT ("Potential snags in Anglo-American relations") [Reaganites since election "brutally differentiated themselves" from MT's government] [declassified 2010] |
|
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81 Feb 11 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (“Central America [& Taiwan]”) (NSC 0002) [declassified 2007] |
|
|
81 Feb 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Italy/US: White House record of conversation (Reagan-Foreign Minister Colombo) [expressions of mutual regard; TNF; Italy as a "difficult democracy"] [declassified 2006] |
|
|
81 Feb 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Handling of political questions at Ottawa summit") ["we shall need to consider what preparations should be made in advance"] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
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81 Feb 17 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: State Department briefing for President Reagan (“Essential Issues Papers”) [declassified 2006] |
|
|
81 Feb 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Al Haig briefing for President Reagan (MT visit, with copy of her final schedule) [principal goal: "demonstrate publicly and privately that Mrs.Thatcher is the major Western leader most attuned to your views on East-West and security issues"] [declassified 2006] |
|
|
81 Feb 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War & Caribbean: National Security Council minutes (1542Z) ("Caribbean Basin & F15s") (NSC 0003) [declassified 2007] |
|
|
81 Feb 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to the United States: 25-28 February 1981") [complete set] [released Dec 2011] |
|
|
81 Feb 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: NSC memorandum to Vice-President Bush (urges he meet Carrington whose “support (and restraint) will be critical”) [declassified 2006] |
|
|
81 Feb 23 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: State Department memorandum for National Security Adviser (“Paper for the NSC Meeting on El Savador”) [Interagency options paper, examining US and third country assistance] [declassified 2007] |
|
|
81 Feb 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Adviser briefing for President (NSC Meeting 25 Feb) [Interagency options paper proposes only "initial quick fixes", need to "gear up for the longer haul"] [declassified 2008] |
|
|
81 Feb 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: NSC & British schedules for MT visit (drafts) [declassified 2006] |
|
|
81 Feb 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: HMT record of conversation (Macro-Economic Group) ["Budget Developments"] [declassified 2011] |
 |
81 Feb 26 Th |
Multimedia |
Minor |
Ronald Reagan & Margaret Thatcher |
Conversation during press shoot (length of US election campaigns; noisy press cameras; art in the Oval Office) [audio] |
|
|
81 Feb 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: White House record of conversation (MT-Reagan plenary) [East/West, Central America especially Belize; jellybeans] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
81 Feb 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 note of conversation (Reagan-Thatcher meeting) [plenary session] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Feb 26 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks leaving the White House |
|
|
81 Feb 27 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher & Ronald Reagan |
Exchange of toasts at British Embassy Dinner |
|
|
81 Feb 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Central America & Middle East: National Security Council minutes (2130Z) ("El Salvador & Saudi F15s") (NSC 0004) [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Feb 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Folger minute to Unwin ("Budget: Letter to No 10") [summary of Budget decisions for MT] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Mar 2 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC Stmnt: [Prime Minister (American Visit)] |
|
|
81 Mar 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Most Confidential Record to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 12th (Civil Service Pay Dispute) [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Mar 18 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bush Library) |
Argentina: White House record of conversation (Vice-President Bush-Argentine President-designate Viola) [human rights; El Salvador] [declassified 2016] |
|
|
81 Mar 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Middle East: National Security Council minutes (2000Z) ("Sinai peacekeeping & Pakistan") (NSC 0005) [declassified 2005] |
|
|
81 Mar 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 12th (Parliamentary Affairs, Nigeria, Pakistan, Mexico, EC Affairs, Civil Service Pay Dispute, Defence Estimates 1981) [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Mar 20 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Lankester minute to MT (“Effect of the Civil Service Industrial Action on the Central Government Borrowing Requirement”) [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Mar 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Argentina: USE Buenos Aires telegram 2090 to State Department (1310Z) ("President-designate Viola's private visit to the US - Assessment") ["most satisfied - very happy"] [declassified Apr 2017] |
|
|
81 Mar 25 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 1002 to FCO (2311Z) ("Secretary Haig: crisis management") [report on Reagan's decision to allocate responsibility to Bush, and Haig's reaction] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
81 Mar 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War/Central America/Africa: National Security Council minutes (1905Z) ("Poland, Nicaragua/Central America, Southern Africa") (NSC 0006) [declassified 2005] |
|
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81 Mar 26 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: MT letter to Vice-President Bush (thanks for photographs) ["What a happy visit it was"] [released 2012] |
|
|
81 Mar 27 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action") [progress report on Civil Service industrial action] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Apr 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Soames-Prior-Havers-Hayhoe-Armstrong) ["Civil Service Pay"] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Apr 2 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 14th (British Telecommunications Bill, Poland, Canadian Constitution, Belize, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Iran, United States, EC Affairs) [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Apr 4 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: Haig message to Carrington (Soviet intervention in Poland) ["Our assessment of the Soviet posture regarding Poland suggests that an intervention by the U.S.S.R. is a serious possibility"] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Apr 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Minutes of Group on Industrial Action - GIA(81) 1st (Civil Service pay dispute) [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Apr 11 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Middle East/Cold War/Central America: National Security Council minutes (1900Z) ("Haig trip to Mideast and Europe, Saudi AWACS, and Nicaragua") (NSC 0007) [declassified Jul 2010] |
|
|
81 Apr 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action Progress Report") [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Apr 16 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKA Washington despatch to Lord Carrington (“The Reagan Administration’s economic policy - an initial assessment”) [assesses content, prospects in Congress & chances of success] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
81 Apr 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Trivial |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Robert Conquest letter to Gow (comments on members of Reagan's Administration) [comment on resentment within the Administration at British attitudes] [released 2012] |
|
|
81 Apr 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Vereker minute to MT ("Civil Service Industrial Action") [update on strike: Air Traffic Controllers taking industrial action] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Apr 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1510Z) ("Theater Nuclear Forces - negotiations timing") (NSC 0008) [declassified 2005] |
|
|
81 May 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Carrington minute to MT ("BBC External Services") [decisions required on expenditure cuts: "We must expect a row in the House of Commons"] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 May 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Afghanistan: UKE Rome to FCO ("Afghanistan/Pakistan/India") [report Four Power talks on situation in Afghanistan; support for Afghan resistance] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 May 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Rome to FCO ("Libya") [account of quadripartite Ministerial dinner in Rome, 3 May: concerns about Gaddhafi] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 May 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: UKE Rome to FCO ("Poland") [Quadripartite meeting on situation in Poland] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 May 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Walker letter to Carrington (“Sales of food to the USSR”) [reaction to lifting of US embargo] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
81 May 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Foreign Office letter to Cabinet Office ("Ottawa Seven Power summit: political preparations") [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
|
81 May 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War/Caribbean: National Security Council minutes (1300Z) ("US-USSR Standing Consultative Commission and US Policy for Caribbean Basin") (NSC 0009) [declassified Nov 2008] |
|
|
81 May 25 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Germany: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Schmidt) [MT gives Schmidt account of her Washington visit] [released 2012] |
|
|
81 May 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Middle East: Ian Gow to Julian Amery (visit to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf) [thanks for information] [released 2017] |
|
|
81 May 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War/Central America/China: National Security Council minutes (1730Z) ("US Policy for Caribbean Basin, US Relations with the PRC, and Sinai Multinational Force") (NSC 0010) [declassified Oct 2012] |
|
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81 May 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Hastie-Smith note circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 28 (BBC External Services) [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 May 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Vereker minute to Rickett ("Civil Service Industrial Dispute: Recovery") [report on recovery from the Civil Service strike] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 May 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Law of the Sea: Wade-Gery minute to No.10 (“Announcement of the Government’s decision to extend the United Kingdom Territorial Sea”) [“risk of… seriously upsetting the Americans is small enough to be acceptable”] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
81 Jun 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Latin America/Middle East: National Security Council minutes (1930Z) ("Arms Transfer Policy & F16s for Venezuela; US Policy Toward Libya") (NSC 0011) [declassified Oct 2012] |
|
|
81 Jun 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Defence and Oversea Policy Committee - OD(81) 10th (BBC External Services, Poland: Possible Sanctions in the Event of Forcible Intervention) [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Jun 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War/China & Far East: National Security Council minutes (1730Z) ("China, Cuba and Secretary Haig's Trip to the Far East") (NSC 0012) [declassified Jun 2016] |
|
|
81 Jun 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Northern Ireland: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Stormont Speech, 28 May") [impact of MT's speech in the US; "it is very probable that [Ed Meese] showed and commended it to the President"] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Jun 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
China/Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1554Z) ("China, Greece and Poland") (NSC 0013) [declassified Mar 2007] |
|
|
81 Jun 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Political discussion at the Ottawa summit") [East-West relations] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
|
81 Jun 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 1838 to FCO (1619Z) ("Lord Privy Seal's Meeting with the Vice President") [Gilmour-Bush meeting: Arab-Israeli conflict, Mitterand's position on Israel, Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation in Iraq, Syria, European initiatives] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Jun 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UK delegation NATO to FCO (“Brezhnev letter to President Reagan”) [declassified 2012] |
|
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81 Jun 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT Engagement Diary |
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81 Jun 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Menu card from dinner at No.10 Downing Street in honour of Vice-President and Mrs. Bush (MT notes for speech) [released 2012] |
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81 Jun 25 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
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81 Jun 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: George Bush letter to MT (thanks for hospitality and meeting) [released 2012] |
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81 Jun 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Barbara Bush letter to MT (thanks for hospitality during visit of George and Barbara Bush to the UK) [released 2012] |
|
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81 Jun 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Northern Ireland: US Ambassador to the UK, John Louis letter to MT (suggests employing a New York PR firm to explain NI situation to Americans) [released 2012] |
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81 Jun 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: US Ambassador to London J.J. Louis letter to MT (Louis' suggestions on presentation of situation in Northern Ireland to US public) [thanks for dinner invitation] [released 2013] |
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81 Jun 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: MT letter to Lord Vaizey (BBC finances) ["there is room for some improvement"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
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81 Jul 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Nick Ridley circular letter (BBC External Services) [details of Government plans for BBC expenditure cuts] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Jul 31 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Middle East/Indian Ocean: National Security Council minutes (1600Z) ("Gulf of Sidra Exercise; US Naval Presence in the Indian Ocean; Security Assistance for Egypt") (NSC 0018) [declassified Dec 2015] |
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|
81 Aug 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: UKE Mexico City to FCO ("Poland") [Carrington discusses economic assistance to Poland with US, French and German colleagues in margins of Cancun meeting] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Aug 4 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: HMT letter to No.10 ("UK Net Contribution to Community Budget") [declassified 2011] |
|
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81 Aug 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Argentina: USE Buenos Aires telegram to State Department ("Ambassador Kirkpatrick's visit: Central Amercia, the NAM, trade with the USSR and human rights") [1-4 Aug visit, Argentinians stressing need for military defeat of subversion in El Salvador, fearing it will spread south] [declassified 2017] |
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81 Aug 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Poland") [assessment of political and economic aspects of Polish crisis] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Aug 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: MT letter to Vice-President Bush (thanks for photographs) [released 2012] |
|
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81 Aug 29 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Haig message to Carrington (countering Soviet propaganda) [“pressing need to do a much better job”] [declassified 2012] |
|
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81 Sep 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Carrington memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 42 (BBC External Services) [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Sep 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Pakistan: FCO briefing for MT (MT visit to Pakistan) [viability of Pakistan and stability of the Zia regime] [declassified 2012] |
|
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81 Oct 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Atkins message to Carrington ("BBC External Services") [opposition in Parliament to cuts to BBC expenditure; compromise solution] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
81 Oct 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UK Delegation NATO to FCO (“Brezhnev message to President Reagan”) [declassified 2012] |
|
|
81 Nov 5 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Jordan: UKE Washington telegram 3317 to FCO (2300Z) ("US/Jordan") [Hussein visit to US/talks with Reagan: US arms supply to Jordan; Palestine] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
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81 Nov 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
United Nations: UKMIS Geneva telegram 376 to FCO (1510Z) (“Election of UN Secretary General”) [Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan] [declassified 2012] |
|
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81 Nov 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (2000Z) ("Strategy towards Cuba and Central America") (NSC 0024) [declassified 2005] |
|
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81 Nov 10 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("The Europeans and the MFO, Meeting with Saudi Ambassador, Israeli Overflights of Saudi Arabia: A Deliberate Signal") [declassified 2016] |
|
|
81 Nov 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1800Z) ("Theater Nuclear Forces") (NSC 0025) [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
|
81 Nov 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Jordan: FCO briefing for MT ("King Hussein's call on the Prime Minister") [Hussein's visit to US; Sinai; Palestine; Lebanon; Israeli excavations in Jerusalem] [declassified Dec 2011] |
|
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81 Nov 19 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
United Nations: UKMIS New York telegram 1289 to FCO (2330Z) (“Election of UN Secretary General”) [declassified 2012] |
|
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81 Nov 30 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
El Salvador: UKE Washington telegram 3611 to FCO (1915Z) ("El Salvador") [UN resolution: if Britain decides to "vote with the ten, the administration's reaction would be one of some indignation"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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81 Dec 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1830Z) ("Monitoring Overseas Direct Employment (MODE) and Civil Defense") (NSC 0027) [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
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81 Dec 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Middle East & Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1415Z) ("Libya and Global Negotiations") (NSC 0029) [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
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81 Dec 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
El Salvador: UKDEL NATO telegram 456 to FCO (0215Z) ("Quadripartite Dinner 9 December: Central America") [Haig's views on the situation] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
|
81 Dec 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (2041Z) ("Aid to Poland") (NSC 0031) [declassified Feb 2008] |
|
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81 Dec 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: UKDEL NATO to FCO ("Quadripartite Dinner 9 December: Poland") [French, US, German and British views on Poland and Eastern Europe] [declassified 2011] |
|
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81 Dec 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1855Z) ("Peacetime Draft Registration") (NSC 0032) [declassified Feb 2008] |
|
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81 Dec 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1530Z) ("Poland") (NSC 0033) [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
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81 Dec 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1930Z) ("Poland") (NSC 0034) [Reagan calls European leaders “chicken littles … let our Allies know ... we have long memories”] [declassified Oct 2004] |
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81 Dec 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1600Z) ("Poland") (NSC 0035) [Reagan comments: "We'd like a little heat on our Allies"] [declassified Dec 2005] |
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82 Jan 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War/Middle East: National Security Council minutes (2123Z) ("Poland & Golan Heights") (NSC 0036) [Reagan comments: "Maggie Thatcher has told me their trade with the Arabs is very important and that this has her worried"] [declassified Mar 2001] |
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82 Jan 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Sir Frank Cooper letter to No.10 (European Security Study) [reducing NATO reliance on early use of nuclear weapons] [declassified 2013] |
|
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82 Jan 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
International law: National Security Council minutes (1830Z) ("Law of the Sea") (NSC 0037) [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
|
82 Jan 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Middle East: National Security Council minutes (2105Z) ("Libya") (NSC 0038) [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
|
82 Jan 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: US Secretary of State letter to Carrington (Poland) [reaction to martial law declaration] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
82 Jan 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Budget: Kemp minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Cabinet 28 January - Economic Strategy - Brief") [brief for Chancellor of the Exchequer's Cabinet presentation] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jan 27 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Poland: Wade-Gery minute to MT (“OD: Poland”) [allied measures and British position] [declassified 2012] |
|
|
82 Jan 30 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 283 to FCO (0030Z) ("President Reagan's State of the Union Address") [analysis] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
82 Feb 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (2030Z) ("Scope and Interpretation of Oil and Gas Equipment Controls") (NSC 0039) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Spt 2004] |
|
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82 Feb 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Egypt: UKE Washington telegram 366 to FCO (0319Z) ("President Mubarak's Visit to Washington") [perceptions of Mubarak; relations with US; Israel/Sinai; Poland; Afghanistan; Sudan; Somalia; Libya; Gulf states; relations with moderate Arab states; economic reforms/US aid] [released Dec 2018] |
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82 Feb 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Geoffrey Pattie PS letter to No.10 (Arms control: public opinion and security) [Pattie paper for annual Wehrkunde Conference] [declassified 2013] |
|
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82 Feb 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
International law: National Security Council minutes (1440Z) ("The Caribbean Basin") (NSC 0040) [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
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82 Feb 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
United Nations: No.10 minute to MT ("Second UN Special Session on Disarmament") [FCO advice on MT attendance] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
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82 Feb 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
United Nations: No.10 minute to MT ("Second UN Special Session on Disarmament") [arguments for & against attendance] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
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82 Feb 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1800Z) ("Terms of Reference for High-Level USG Mission to Europe on Soviet Sanctions") (NSC 0043) [Siberian gas pipeline; Reagan: "I must take the blame for having been careless. ... Maggie Thatcher has made me realise that I have been wrong"] [declassified Nov 2005] |
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82 Mar 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1700Z) ("Debrief of Under Secretary Buckley's Trip to Europe") (NSC 0044) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Nov 2005] |
|
|
82 Apr 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: NSC memorandum to the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs ("UK/Argentine Dispute in Falkland Islands") [published 2015] |
|
|
82 Apr 1 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: NSC briefing for President Reagan ("Suggested Talking Points for Telephone Call to President Galtieri") ["Maggie is a very determined woman .... The use of force by anyone will be met by force on her part"] [published 2015] |
|
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Argentine Archivo General de la Nación) |
Argentine Junta: Argentine Presidency record of Reagan-Galtieri phone conversation (0034-0114Z) (Spanish original & transcript, with English translation) [Reagan fails to persuade Galtieri not to invade the Falklands] [declassified 2013; this copy 2015] |
|
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: State Department telegram to USE Buenos Aires & USE London (0304Z) ("UK-Argentine Confrontation: Secretary Calls In Argentine Ambassador") [published 2015] |
|
|
82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: State Department to USE Buenos Aires (0304Z) ("UK-Argentine confrontation - Secretary calls in Argentine Ambassador") [if force used "we will have to side with the British"] [declassified 2001] |
|
|
82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: State Department telegram to USE Buenos Aires and USE London (0437Z) ("President's Conversation with Argentine President Galtieri") [published 2015] |
|
|
82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: State Department to USE Buenos Aires (0437Z) ("President's conversation with Argentine President") [use of force "would gravely compromise US-Argentine relations"] [declassified 2002] |
|
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO telegram 88 to UKE Buenos Aires (0444Z) ("Falklands") [Reagan call to Galtieri failed] [declassified 2012] |
|
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82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 14th (0845Z) (Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012] |
|
|
82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1077 to FCO (1450Z) ("Falklands") [conversations with Haig - written account of events already relayed orally] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
|
82 Apr 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (CIA) |
Falklands: Casey memo for Haig ("Quick Intelligence Assessment on Falklands Affairs (April 2nd, 1982)") [Galtieri's "generally aggressive foreign policy"; Cuba, Soviets will be wary] [declassified 2007] |
|
|
82 Apr 4 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1110 to FCO (1919Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Washington Post and New York Times make Falklands lead story again, despatch of Task Force] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
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82 Apr 4 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1111 to FCO (1926Z) ("Falklands") [Washington Post editorial on "Argentina's Adventure" - "foolish venture", "The Brits have nothing to apologise for in the Falklands"] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
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82 Apr 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Defence Staff record of phone conversation (1720Z) (General Boam call from Washington) ["Informing BDLS" - British Defence Liaison Staff need to be kept in the picture] [declassified Feb 2018] |
|
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82 Apr 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1118 to FCO (2032Z) ("Falklands") [New York Times reports US officials expecting US to produce a diplomatic formula to avoid a military clash] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
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82 Apr 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1123 to FCO (2309Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Henderson speaks with Bush ("not well informed and generally somewhat cagey") and Weinberger ("had not the faintest inkling in advance", unaware of strength of feeling in Britain about the Falklands)] [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
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82 Apr 6 Tu |
Press |
Major |
Archive (Haig MSS) |
Falklands: UPI report (1159Z) ("Argentine FM confident problem with Britain can be solved") ["The US offered its services as mediator Tuesday"] [this copy released Mar 1993] |
|
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82 Apr 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: Clark memorandum for President Reagan (Falklands Follow-Up) [MT proposals "rather extreme ... make clear the near hysterical pitch" in London; results of Haig meeting that morning] [published 2015] |
|
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82 Apr 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Ingham MSS) |
Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.86 ("Falklands: British Airways jumbo jets, Cargo aircraft, SAS") [MoD talking to BA about possibility of chartering aircraft but nothing agreed] [released 2013] |
|
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82 Apr 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Haig MSS) |
Falklands: Talking Points prepared by State Department ("NSPG meeting, 8.30AM, April 7 1982") [Falklands dispute: political situation in UK/Argentina; military capabilities; US proposals to both sides; next steps] [published 2015; largely declassified 2001] |
|
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82 Apr 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: National Security Planning Group meeting (1334-1415Z) (situation in South Atlantic) [account from Rentschler memoirs, Weinberger diary] [published 2015] |
|
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82 Apr 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Haig MSS) |
Falklands: Department of State memorandum ("Highlights of April 7 TV newscasts and programs") [Falklands - announcement of MEZ, Nott and Pym speeches); Haig flying to London, talk of 'mediation'] [released Mar 1993] |
|
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82 Apr 8 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Archive (Haig MSS) |
Falklands: White House news summary (1100Z) ("Britain plans naval quarantine of Falklands") ["President Reagan has ordered Secretary Haig to London and Buenos Aires to help mediate the Falkland dispute"] [this copy released Mar 1993] |
|
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82 Apr 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Rentschler MSS) |
Falklands: Jim Rentschler diary (US decision to launch mediation; Haig's first visit to London) [MT: "Interim authority? - to do what?"] |
|
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82 Apr 13 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: State Department report to the President (Falklands: the basic negotiating problem; politics in the two countries; status of the negotiations; our strategy) [published 2015] |
|
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82 Apr 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("NSSD 1-82") (NSC 0045) [National Security Strategy Directive] [declassified Oct 2006] |
|
|
82 Apr 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Hugh Thomas memorandum for MT ("British Policy towards the Falklands in the Light of Argentinian Psychology") [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
|
82 Apr 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1430Z) ("Strategic Arms Reductions Talks (START)") (NSC 0046) [declassified Jul 2010] |
|
|
82 Apr 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: Prime Minister Suzuki of Japan message to MT (sanctions against Argentina) [Suzuki to pressure Japanese business not to "unduly take advantage" of EC and other measures to ban Argentine imports] [released 2013] |
|
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82 Apr 26 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Prime Minister Suzuki of Japan letter for MT (the Falklands conflict: Japanese position) [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
|
82 Apr 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (1800Z) ("Falklands: Japanese position") [disappointment at Japanese refusal to introduce import ban; MT agrees reply "in rather stiff terms" to PM Suzuki] [declassified 2012] |
|
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82 Apr 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1815Z) ("NSSD 1-82") (NSC 0047) [National Security Strategy Directive] [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
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82 May 1 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKHC Canberra telegram 185 to FCO (0101Z) ("Falkland Islands") [record of conversation with PM Fraser - had strongly urged Vice-President Bush that US openly support Britain] [declassified 2012] |
|
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82 May 3 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1345Z) ("START") (NSC 0049) [declassified Nov 2005] |
|
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82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKHC Canberra telegram 200 to FCO (0634Z) ("Falkland Islands: Australian Prime Minister") [Malcolm Fraser question and answer in Austrialian Parliament] [declassified 2012] |
|
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82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (morning) (MT-Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [loss of HMS Sheffield; US/Peru peace proposals] [declassified 2012] |
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82 May 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Pearson letter to CMR (report from Pearson's contact in Buenos Aires) [Costa Mendez in favour again with "his master" so no longer seeking private line to London] [declassified 2012] |
|
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82 May 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: State Department telegram to Haig (1817Z) ("Meeting with Henderson") [published 2015] |
|
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82 May 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: National Security Decision Directive 34 ("US Actions in the South Atlantic Crisis") [published 2015] |
|
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82 May 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Commonwealth Coordination Department report ("Commonwealth Governments' Reactions to Falklands Crisis") [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
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82 May 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: NSC Staff memorandum to President's Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs ("Response to President Reagan's Query on 18 May Regarding Vulcan OPS") [published 2015] |
|
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82 May 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1345Z) ("START") (NSC 0049A) [declassified Nov 2005] |
|
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82 May 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: Vice President Bush memorandum to President Reagan ("South Atlantic Crisis: US Posture") [published 2015] |
|
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82 May 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1430Z) ("Review of December 30, 1981 Sanctions") (NSC 0050) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Dec 2006] |
|
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82 May 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: No.10 record of conversation (1515Z) (“Record of conversation between the Prime Minister and the Australian Foreign Minister at 1615 hours on 25 May 1982 at the House of Commons”) [declassified 2012] |
|
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82 May 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Australia: No. 10 record of conversation (1515Z) (MT-Street) [disarmament, economic stagnation, Japanese trade] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
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82 May 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: USE Brasilia telegram to State Department (1532Z) ("Demarche on Falklands") [published 2015] |
|
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82 Jun 5 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: MH Jay record of conversation to Lord Bridges (“US draft communiqué language on East West economic relations”) [quadripartite political directors meeting - US/French disagreement on credit restraint] [declassified 2012] |
|
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82 Jun 7 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Gow letter to Jopling (Gow considers stepping down as MT's PPS; asks Jopling to suggest a successor) [released 2013] |
|
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82 Jun 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Ministry of Defence briefing for Sir Frank Cooper (meeting with editors) [tv film, still pictures; QEII, submarines; arrangements for press after re-possession of the Falklands] [declassified Oct 2019] |
|
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82 Jun 12 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 989 to FCO (0200Z) ("Israel/Lebanon") [Israeli-Lebanese conflict: US failing to act on humanitarian appeal by the UN Secretary General] [declassified 2012] |
|
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82 Jun 15 Tu |
Press |
Major |
Commentary (The Times) |
“Ceasefire agreed in the Falklands” ("Thatcher says white flags fly over Port Stanley") [Commons statement at 10.15pm] |
|
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82 Jun 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO telegram 1188 to UKE Washington (1944Z) ("Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012] |
|
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82 Jun 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1815Z) ("East-West Sanctions") (NSC 0051) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Nov 2005] |
|
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82 Jun 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
United Nations: UKE Washington telegram 12 to FCO (0030Z) ("Prime Minister's visit to Washington") [programme] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
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82 Jun 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
United Nations: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Bush, Haig, Judge William Clark, Sir Nicholas Henderson) [IRA arms smuggling; US trade sanctions/John Brown company; steel imports from Europe; Falklands war; Lebanon] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Jun 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: White House record of conversation (“President’s meeting with UK PM Margaret Thatcher” - Bush, Haig, Clark also) [declassified 2008] |
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82 Jun 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Bush Sr., Haig, Nicholas Henderson, William P. Clark) [US trade sanctions, Falklands, Middle East] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 24 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2220 to FCO (0015Z) (“Haig/Gromyko meetings”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jun 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: White House memorandum for President (“Talking Points - Haig”) [line for President to take in conversation dismissing Haig] [declassified 2006] |
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82 Jun 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 2273 to FCO (2245Z) ("Haig's resignation") ["some thoughts on the implications"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
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82 Jun 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
International law: National Security Council minutes (1600Z) ("Law of the Sea") (NSC 0053) [declassified Dec 2005] |
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82 Jul 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Brittan memo circulated to Cabinet - C(82) 28 (Public Expenditure: Objectives for 1982 Survey) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jul 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Calling the Falklands") [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Jul 12 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government machinery: Rayner PS minute to No.10 (“Scrutiny programme 1982: Department of the Environment”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jul 16 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1600Z) ("US-EC Economic Relations") (NSC 0054) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Spt 2013] |
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82 Jul 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1630Z) ("United States Policy Towards Eastern Europe") (NSC 0056) [declassified Feb 2008] |
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82 Jul 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: First Annex to Henderson Despatch ("Falkland Islands: Chronology of Events Covering US Involvement in the Dispute: March to June 1982") [released 2013] |
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82 Jul 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Henderson Valedictory Despatch ("US Policy in the Falkands Crisis with some Valedictory Comments on US/UK Relations") [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jul 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Lord Cockfield letter to MT (existing trade contracts with USSR) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Jul 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Poland: MT message to Reagan (US sanctions against the USSR) [situation of John Brown Engineering: "I am very anxious that this matter should not be allowed to escalate and thus become a serious irritant in our relations"] [released 2013] |
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82 Jul 30 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: MT telegram to President Reagan (existing trade contracts with USSR) [US trade sanctions and Middle East policy] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Aug 4 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Middle East: National Security Council minutes (1410Z) ("Lebanon Situation") (NSC 0057) [declassified Nov 2005] |
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82 Aug 6 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1700Z) ("US-EC Steel Dispute and Soviet Sanctions Implementation") (NSC 0058) ["The President said that he had tried to get the Europeans to pressure the Polish Government ... but no one had listened"] [declassified Nov 2005] |
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82 Aug 9 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1910Z) ("START") (NSC 0059) [declassified Feb 2006] |
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82 Aug 24 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Cockfield PS letter to No.10 (“East/West economic issues - Siberian pipeline”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Sep 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Falkland Islands Review Committee minutes ("FIRC 4th Meeting Minutes") [Introductory remarks; minutes; documentation; correspondence; written evidence; oral evidence; discussion of events in 1981 and 1982; review of the MOD papers; next meeting] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Sep 11 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3014 to FCO (1945Z) ("Falklands: General Assembly") [US stance on prospective UN resolution calling for UK/Argentina negotiations] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Sep 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1430Z) ("Pipeline Sanctions") (NSC 0061) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Nov 2005] |
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82 Sep 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: FCO minute to senior officials (“The quadripartite forum: rules for handling papers”) [“essential that the existence of these meetings is kept secret”] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Sep 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: FCO telegram to UKHC New Delhi (“Bilateral with US Secretary of State: pipeline”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Sep 29 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Economic Summit") [advice on the timing of the Summit in the context of world economy deterioration] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Sep 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 1503 to FCO (0556Z) (“Quadripartite Ministerial meeting on 29 September: Shultz’s meeting with Gromyko, 28 September”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Oct 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Commonwealth Coordination Department report ("Commonwealth Governments' Reactions to Falklands Crisis") [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Oct 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: Alan Donald minute to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Oct 1 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKMIS New York telegram 1544 to FCO (1918Z) (“East/West economic relations”) [US trade sanctions] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Oct 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("The Falklands: possible discussion at Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting, Suva, 14-18 October 1982") ["The Commonwealth is continuing to prove a valuable asset in our campaign at the UN"; MT message to Prime Minister Ratu Mara, Chair of the Meeting in Suva] [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Oct 4 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
National health: Baroness Young letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Sympathetic industrial action") [NHS pay dispute; "I believe that the time has now come to tell all civil servants, formally, of the Government's policy towards sympathetic action"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Oct 5 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: No.10 minute to MT (negotiation with the Chinese) [future of Hong Kong] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Oct 15 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 3361 to FCO (2230Z) (“US-Israel: Shamir’s Visit to Washington”) [declassified 2013] |
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82 Oct 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong No.10 record of conversation (“Future of Hong Kong”) [MT, Pym, Acland, Donald] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Nov 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong Cradock telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Nov 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: FCO record of conversation (Alan Donald, SJ Gomersall, John Holdridge, Paul Wolfowitz) [“China and Hong Kong: Note of a Meeting at the State Department on 4 November 1982”] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Nov 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Association of Members of State Industry Boards ("Nationalised Industry Board Pay") [matching 'market level' of salaries to facilitate recruitment] [declassified Jan 2014] |
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82 Nov 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Commonwealth Coordination Department report ("Commonwealth Governments' Reactions to Falklands' Crisis") [declassified Dec 2012] |
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82 Nov 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: UKE Washington telegram 3602 to FCO (2234Z) (“Future of Hong Kong”) [record of conversations: Wright, Donald, Shultz; Wright, Bush Sr.] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Nov 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1430Z) ("Allied Agreement on East-West Trade and Poland-related Sanctions") (NSC 0065) [Siberian gas pipeline] [declassified Nov 2005] |
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82 Nov 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Soviet Union: Reagan message to MT (death of Brezhnev) [Western response; opportunity for improved East-West relations] [released 2013] |
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82 Nov 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: Pym PS letter to No.10 (“Future of Hong Kong: recent developments and the Prime Minister’s dinner with Dr Kissinger on 12 November”) [points to make] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 3664 to FCO (0240Z) ("President Reagan's press conference: US/Soviet relations) [reaction to death of Brehznev] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: President Reagan message to MT (East/West relations) [reaction to death of Brehznev: "I think it particularly important at this time that Western conduct towards the Soviet Union be marked by unity of purpose"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: MT message to President Reagan (East/West relations) [reaction to death of Brehznev: "I agree... about the overriding importance of Western unity at this particular time"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: Enders, Middendorf & Blackwill memorandum to Shultz ("Proposed Argentine Resolution on Falklands/Malvinas Issue") [published 2015] |
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82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (reaction to death of Brezhnev) [agrees his view that "a more constructive East/West relationship is available" if new leaders "adopt a new approach"] [declassified 2010] |
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82 Nov 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Soviet Union: MT message to Reagan (death of Brezhnev) [Western response; opportunity for improved East-West relations] [released 2013] |
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82 Nov 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("US/Soviet relations") [recount of Bush/Shultz meeting with Andropov] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Nov 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("East/West relations") [proposal that Pym write to Shultz] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Nov 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (CIA) |
Belize: CIA National Intelligence Daily Cable ("Belize: Move to the Left") [Price foreign policy "may be moving Belize slowly into the leftist camp"] [declassified 2011] |
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82 Nov 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ian Smith) [Smith argues Zimbabwe moving towards a one-party Communist state] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Nov 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym) ["East/West relations"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Nov 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Pym message to US Secretary of State George Shultz ("East-West Relations") ["it seems to me that there could be something to be said for an early Soviet-American summit"] [released 2013] |
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82 Nov 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Pym message to Shultz (relations with the Soviet Union) [need for Western Allies to pursue a common line on East-West relations] [released 2013] |
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82 Nov 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(82) 49th (Parliamentary Affairs, Falkland Islands, Foreign Affairs, EC, Industrial Affairs, Economic Affairs) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Nov 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Zimbabwe: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (Vice President Bush’s visit) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Nov 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO (“Vice President Bush’s visit”) [declassified 2012] |
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82 Nov 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Shultz letter to Pym (East-West relations) [Western policy & proposed US-Soviet summit] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Nov 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Zimbabwe: FCO letter to No.10 (“Zimbabwe”) [FCO fail to allay MT’s concerns] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Nov 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Arab League Delegation visit: Dinner at No.10") [arrangements/guest list] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Nov 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
National Health: Fowler letter to Younger ("Remuneration of Health Authority Chairmen") [MT commends as "excellent" Fowler's decision to award substantially lower pay rise than TSRB recommendation] [released Feb 2016] |
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82 Nov 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Zimbabwe: No.10 letter to Ministry of Defence (“Zimbabwe”) [military aid and general review of policy] [declassified 2012] |
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82 Dec 9 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Zimbabwe: Pym minute to MT ("Zimbabwe") ["as requested... a note on policy... [including] maltreatment of detainees... military sales... wider strategic context"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Dec 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Energy: National Security Council minutes (1913Z) ("Alternative Energies") (NSC 0069) [declassified Spt 2017] |
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82 Dec 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Zimbabwe: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Denis Norman) ["Zimbabwe": economy; agriculture/exports; human rights; British Military Advisory & Training Team; N. Korean influence; southern Africa; trend towards one-party state] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Dec 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Zimbabwe: FCO briefing for MT ("Zimbabwe") [record of conversation with Cranley Onslow; key issues; biography] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Dec 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Industry: Robin Butler record of conversation (MT-Havers-Winterton) [“De Lorean”: “disturbing information about the company”] [released 2017] |
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82 Dec 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Hugh Thomas note to MT ("Visit to Washington, December 13 - 14 1982") [Thomas' account of visit to discuss US-Europe Alliance and nuclear deterrent with US Administration representatives] [released 2013] |
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82 Dec 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
US: Burt briefing for Shultz (meeting with MT) [“We believe that Thatcher is eager now to put recent U.S./U.K. frictions behind us”, though still “a determined nationalist”] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Dec 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“Financial management”) [MT taking close interest] [declassified 2013] |
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82 Dec 22 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government machinery: Lord Cockfield PS letter to Biffen PS ("Review of Civil Service Catering") ["at a time when staff morale in the civil service is low, an improvement in catering might be helpful in turning the tide"; MT not convinced by proposals] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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82 Dec 25 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: No.10 note ("Broadcasting - Christmas Card List") [media-related recipients of card from MT] [released 2013] |
|
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82 Dec 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Tim Flesher minute to Robin Butler ("Diary developments") [Kohl; Bush; Klibi] [released Jul 2016] |
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83 Jan 5 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: UK Ambassador Washington to FCO ("United States: Annual Review 1982") [Sir Oliver Wright's Annual Review] [released 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 9 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Transcript of LWT 'Weekend World' programme ("The Resolute Approach: An Election Winner?") [prefatory to MT interview the following week] [released 2013] |
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83 Jan 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Pym minute to MT ("Bilateral consultations") ["important meetings... over the next few months... our priorities and objectives"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 Jan 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: Pym minute for MT (“Bilateral Consultations”) [UK objectives in forthcoming meetings with allies] [declassified 2014] |
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83 Jan 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: Pym minute to MT (“Bilateral Consultations”) [discussion with Allies: British approach] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Jan 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Pym minute to MT (“Bilateral Consultations”) [priorities and objectives] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Jan 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Pym minute to MT ("Alliance and Nuclear Matters") [INF negotiations] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Jan 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
US-Japan relations: National Security Council minutes (1545Z) ("Visit of the Japanese Prime Minister") (NSC 0071) [declassified Nov 2005] |
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83 Jan 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT [released 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 15 Sa |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Trades Unionists Conference |
|
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83 Jan 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Pym PS letter to No.10 (Arab League delegation) [draft guest list] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Falklands: MT's annotated text of the Franks Report ("Falkland Islands Review") [released 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 18 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Report of a Committee of Privy Councillors |
Falklands: Falkland Islands Review ("the Franks Report") |
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83 Jan 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Middle East: UKE Bonn to FCO (“European Political Cooperation: Political Committee: Bonn 18-19 January: Arab-Israel”) [declassified 2013] |
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83 Jan 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 1st (Parliamentary Affairs, Poland, Arms Control, Middle East, Falklands, International Financial Situation, EC Budget, EC Affairs, Industrial Affairs, Legal Aid, Control of Expenditure, Local Government) [declassified 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Pym minute to MT (“INF negotiations”) [nuclear arms control and disarmament] [declassified 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("Preparations for Round III of START") (NSC 0072) [declassified Spt 2006] |
|
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83 Jan 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Pym minute to MT ("INF Negotiations") [declassified 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Armstrong briefing for MT ("MISC 7: Basing of United States Cruise Missiles") [declassified 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Chancellor Kohl’s Visit on 4 February”) [agenda] [declassified 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 26 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Falkland Islands (Franks Report)] |
|
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83 Jan 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Committee on Nuclear Defence Policy - MISC 7(83) 1st Meeting (Basing of United States Cruise Missiles) [declassified 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Reagan letter to MT (visit of Vice President Bush to London) [released 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 minute to MT (“Visit of Chancellor Kohl: 4 February”) [arrangements] [declassified 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1810Z) ("Discussion of Defense Program") (NSC 0073) [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
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83 Jan 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Meeting at Chequers on 30 January: Arms Control Issues") [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Jan 30 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Pym, Heseltine and others) [“Nuclear defence policy - arms control”] [declassified 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 30 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT-Pym-Heseltine-Officials) ["Nuclear Defence Policy - Arms Control"] [declassified 2013] |
|
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83 Jan 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Pym PS briefing to No.10 (“Nuclear issues: briefing for the Prime Minister”) [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Jan 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Sir Alistair Frame) [Chairmanship of the British Steel Corporation] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Jan 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 minute to MT (Arab League delegation to UK) [draft guest list] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Jan 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 246 to FCO (2300Z) (“US economy: background briefing on the budget and the economic report of the President”) [“the administration’s short-term forecast was intended to be realistic and was not simply a goal”] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
83 Jan 31 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: FCO to UKE Bonn (“Visit of Chancellor Kohl (and Herr Genscher) to the Chequers on 4 February”) [discussion topics] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Your Meeting with American Journalists: Wednesday, 1100") [briefing] [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 1 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: FCO minute to No.10 (“Visit of Chancellor Kohl (and Herr Genscher) to Chequers, 4 February”) [steering brief] [declassified 2013] |
|
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83 Feb 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Boucetta, Moroccan Ambassador) [Arab League Delegation: postponement of visit to UK following death of General Dlimi] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
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83 Feb 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Egypt: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mubarak, Pym, Hurd, John Leahy, Michael Weir, Anthony Parsons, Kamal Hassan Ali, Boutros Ghali, Wagih Shindy, Osama al Baz, Abou-Seeda) [Lebanon; Arab/Israeli negotiations; Iraq/USSR; US influence; Sabra/Shatila massacre; visions of a Palestinian State; UK defence sales to Egypt] [released Dec 2018] |
|
|
83 Feb 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Visit of Chancellor Kohl (and Herr Genscher) to Chequers, 4 February”) [German internal situation, arms control, Community affairs] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 2 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference for American journalists visiting Britain |
|
|
83 Feb 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 3rd (Report of the Parliamentary Boundary Commissions, Foreign Affairs, EC Budget, EC Affairs, Industrial Affairs, Economic Strategy) [declassified 2013] |
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|
83 Feb 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Strategy: Butler minute to MT ("A forward look at decisions in the next six months") [economic, foreign, EC, defence, Middle East, home and Parliamentary issues, appointments and speeches] [released 2013] |
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|
83 Feb 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn to FCO (“Kohl on INF”) [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 302 to FCO (2309Z) (“Vice-President Bush’s visit to London: INF”) [nuclear arms control and disarmament] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The 1983 non-industrial civil service pay negotiations") [report on first meeting of Ministerial Group; proposed opening offer] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Feb 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [INF stationing problem, EC-US relations, world economic prospects] [declassified 2013] |
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|
83 Feb 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl) [background of briefing on bilaterals: world economic situation, arms control and INF talks] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Feb 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Visit of Vice-President Bush”) [nuclear arms control and disarmament] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 8 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
83 Feb 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT Engagement Diary |
|
|
83 Feb 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Pym PS letter to No.10 (“INF: the Zero option”) [nuclear arms control and disarmament] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO record of conversation (“Secretary of State’s discussion with Vice-President Bush: 9 February: Defence issues”) [nuclear arms control and disarmament] [declassified 2013] |
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|
83 Feb 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 141 to FCO (1240Z) ("Anatoly Shcharansky") [human rights abuse case: TASS statement] [released Jul 2017] |
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|
83 Feb 9 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Angola: No.10 briefing for MT ("Visit by Paulo Jorge, Angolan Foreign Minister") [British mercenary prisoners] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Feb 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 4th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Bush Visit, EC Budget, EC Affairs, Industrial Affairs) [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 10 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Vice President Bush letter to MT (thanks for London meeting) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 10 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
|
83 Feb 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Preparations for the Williamsburg Summit") [draft reply to Reagan on economic content of the Summit & MT meeting with Bush; advice regarding Mitterrand proposals] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
US-Japan relations: National Security Council minutes (1505Z) ("Secretary Shultz's Report of Asia Trip") (NSC 0074) [declassified Dec 2010] |
|
|
83 Feb 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“U.S. Secretary of State’s visit to Hong Kong: press coverage”) [Shultz: “[future of Hong Kong] not a subject we can really contribute to”] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 11 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Ingham letter to Ministry of Defence (“Nuclear weapons and public opinion”) [nomination of Roger Jackling to represent No.10 on Committee; transcript of BBC interview with Paul Warnke] [declassified 2016] |
|
|
83 Feb 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: MT message to President Reagan (Williamsburg Economic Summit) [managing media expectations] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: MT message to Reagan (G7 Williamsburg: economic topics for discussion) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Coal: Brittan letter to Lawson (“CEGB Coal Imports”) [“there is the strongest case against such artificial distortions to the market”] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: MT letter to Vice-President Bush (thanks for talks and gift) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local government: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Cabinet, 17 February: Water Strike") [key issues] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Reagan message to MT (intermediate range nuclear forces: negotiations with the USSR) [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 16 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (INF negotiating stance) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
83 Feb 16 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Sunday Telegraph |
|
|
83 Feb 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Civil Service pay: the Government's opening offer") [Ministerial Group recommendations] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Feb 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 5th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Industrial Affairs) [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Australia: MT letter to Prime Minister Fraser of Australia (bush fires in Australia) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 18 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MT message to Reagan (intermediate range nuclear forces: negotiations with the USSR) [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 74 to FCO (0235Z) ("Australian General Election") [rates Labor's chances as better than evens] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
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83 Feb 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Jordan: FCO record of conversation (Pym, King Hussein, Hurd, bin Shaker, Izziddin) [Arab-Israel; Lebanon; Arab League Delegation; Iran/Iraq] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Feb 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Australia: John Cain message to MT (bush fires) [thanks for message of support] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
83 Feb 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Prime Minister Lubbers of the Netherlands letter to Reagan (INF negotiations) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1810Z) ("Briefing on Defense Guidance") (NSC 0075) [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
|
83 Feb 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT (“Visit of The Netherlands Prime Minister: 2 March”) [primary aim to establish good working and personal relationship with Lubbers] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
83 Feb 25 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Italian Prime Minister Fanfani) [East-West relations, arms control, the Williamsburg summit, Anglo-Italian round table] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Feb 25 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Joint Press Conference with Italian Prime Minister (Signor Fanfani) |
|
|
83 Mar 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers, Hurd, Van den Broek) [Dutch economy, industrial redundancies, new technology; energy prices; agricultural pricing policy/CAP; UK contribution to EU budget; INF deployment in Europe] [declassified July 2017] |
|
|
83 Mar 2 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Australia: MT letter to Callaghan (Australian bush fires) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 3 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Australia: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (bush fires in Australia) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Zimbabwe: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO (reports of atrocities againt citizens) [record of conversation with Sekeramayi: UK concerns relayed informally] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 4 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE San Francisco to FCO ("Secretary of State's Meeting with Shultz at Paolo Alto on 3 March: INF") [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 8 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The 1983 non-industrial civil service pay negotiations: attitudinal survey") ["What we have in mind is a general survey on pay and conditions... which would reveal... [what] staff are likely to regard as reasonable"; MT against the proposal] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Mar 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (INF negotiating stance) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
83 Mar 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: FCO briefing for MT (European Council, Brussels, 21/22 March) [full briefing] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 15 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO ("German Views on INF") [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 17 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO letter to No.10 ("INF") [draft reply to Reagan's message on INF negotiations] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 21 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MT message to Reagan (intermediate range nuclear forces: negotiations with the USSR) [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Walters minute to Coles ("US economy and the Williamsburg Summit") [confusion over US stance on exchange rate mechanisms and foreign aid] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 22 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Overseas Aid: Walters minute to No.10 ("US economy and the Williamsburg summit") ["very unlikely Congress will propose any increase of funding to International Development Association"... more likely to decrease"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 Mar 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1730Z) ("Export Administration Act") (NSC 0076) [President approves sanctity of contract provision] [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
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83 Mar 23 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO letter to No.10 ("INF") [draft reply to Reagan on INF negotiations] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 29 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
China: Department of Trade briefing to No.10 (“Meeting with Madame Chen: Wednesday 30 March”) [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 805 to FCO (2130Z) ("INF: New US Proposal") ["The President certainly put on the dog this morning to enable him to make his statement on INF with the maximum symbolic and visual demonstration of Allied unity"] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Mar 31 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Pym PS letter to No.10 (“Letters from the public on nuclear disarmament”) [declassified 2016] |
|
|
83 Apr 6 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Foreign Policy: Gow minute to MT ("European Democratic Union Meeting in London: Friday 24th and Saturday 25th June 1983") [arrangements] [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Apr 11 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Foreign Policy: MT letter to Vice President Bush (invitation to Party Leaders' Meeting of the European Democratic Union) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Apr 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1507Z) ("Strategic Forces Modernization") (NSC 0077) [declassified Dec 2005] |
|
|
83 Apr 16 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Washington telegram 1020 to FCO (1830Z) (“Chancellor Kohl’s Visit, 14-15 April”) [German briefing on talks] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Apr 21 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: FCO letter to No.10 ("Grenada") [Commonwealth Secretary-General forwards letter from Government of Grenada asking for assistance "in the prevention of aggression by the United States against Grenada"] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Apr 22 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Elections: No.10 minute to MT (key issues in run-up to General Election) [checklist] [released July 2018] |
|
|
83 May 12 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Belize: White House record of conversation (Reagan, Belize PM George Price - Oval Office & Plenary meetings) [Price: "Our number one priority is to keep the British troops in Belize for the necessary time"] [declassified Jun 2015] |
|
|
83 May 13 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Williamsburg: political preparation") [Economic Summit: report on pre-meetings of Political Directors] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government machinery: Robin Butler minute to Tim Flesher (The Prime Minister's Office) [briefing note for new Government] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Jun 6 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Falklands: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz ("Vice-President's visit to the UK: briefing") [Falklands; Belize; EDU, IDU; doubt over Pym's future as Foreign Secretary] [declassified 2003] |
|
|
83 Jun 8 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
General Election: Ingham minute to MT ("Diary To Recess") [diary of events up to end of July] [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: No.10 minute to MT (Diary for the next two weeks) [MT annotates her response to "points on which decisions are needed"] [released Jul 2016] |
|
|
83 Jun 10 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
EC: Kohl letter to MT (Kohl unable to attend lunch at No.10 during European Democrat Union Party Leaders' Conference) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 13 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Foreign Policy: Royle minute to MT (launch of the International Democrat Union) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (Williamsburg Economic Summit) ["I particularly appreciated your taking time out from your busy campaign schedule... Your firm support and leadership were vital... [sent] the Soviets a clear signal...Your government's economic policies have proved the wisdom of the key principles laid out in the declaration"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
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83 Jun 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: Reagan letter to MT (thanks for "spirit of cooperation" at G7 Williamsburg meetings) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Foreign Policy: Coles letter to FCO ("International Democrat Union") [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 15 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Economy: Reagan letter to Thatcher (Williamsburg G7 outcomes) [declassified 1998] |
|
|
83 Jun 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: Reagan letter to MT (thanks for attending G7 Williamsburg meeting) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 17 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
US: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“The visits of the Vice President and SECDEF”) [“The political scene here is much changed”] [declassified 2003] |
|
|
83 Jun 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
General Election: Reagan letter to MT (congratulations again on election victory) [arms control agreements] [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 20 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Reagan letter to Thatcher (trade in military technology) [declassified 2000] |
|
|
83 Jun 23 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal Procedure: FCO briefing for MT ("US Anti-Trust Action against British Airlines") [use of the Protection of Trading Interests (PTI) Act)] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT Engagement Diary |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Bush) [East/West relations, Middle East, Hong Kong] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal Procedure: FCO briefing for MT ("US Anti-Trust Action against British Airlines") [use of the Protection of Trading Interests (PTI) Act): US protest; MT meeting with Bush] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal Procedure: Howe message to Shultz (1400Z) ("US Anti-Trust Action against British Airlines") [use of the Protection of Trading Interests (PTI) Act): US protest] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Vice President Bush) [intermediate range nuclear forces negotiations; Greenham Common protests; deployment of US Cruise missiles to UK; Lebanon; Andropov] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO letter to No.10 ("German Position on INF") ["The Prime Minister will wish to be aware before seeing Herr Kohl that the German position over INF appears to be becoming distinctly shaky"] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor Kohl-Vice President Bush) ["German Position on INF"] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Media Meeting - Friday, June 24, 1983") [agenda] [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Foreign Policy: Reports for launch of International Democrat Union [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
US: US Embassy London telegram to Shultz (“Vice President’s meeting with Foreign Secretary Howe, June 24”) [“The Soviets are coming to realize that the President is consistent in his attitudes toward Soviet behavior”] [declassified 2003] |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: No.10 record of conversation (“Record of a conversation between the Prime Minister and Vice President George Bush”) [nuclear defence policy, Middle East, Hong Kong, Soviet Union] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to International Democrat Union lunch |
|
|
83 Jun 24 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to the International Democrat Union |
|
|
83 Jun 26 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Legal Procedure: Tom King PS letter to No.10 ("US Anti-Trust Actions Against British Airlines") [use of the Protection of Trading Interests (PTI) Act)] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Jun 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Visit of Vice-President to FRG") [Bush Sr. visit marred by violent protest] [declassified Dec 2014] |
|
|
83 Jun 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: MT letter to President Reagan (Williamsburg Economic Summit) ["successful demonstration of... unity and purpose... resist[ed] Soviet attempts to drive a wedge between us... We shall take all the necessary action in the new Parliament to fulfil our part of the commitments which we made"; comments on Bush] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation ("Visit of Vice-President Bush") [main points from MT/Bush meeting] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 27 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
G7: MT letter to Reagan (follow-up to G7 Williamsburg summit) [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Jun 28 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Mexico: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Foreign Minister Sepulveda of Mexico) [Mexican economy, debt crisis, political situation in Latin America] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
83 Jun 30 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 21st (Parliamentary Pay and Allowances, Foreign Affairs, EC Budget, EC Affairs, Industrial Affairs) [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Jul 12 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Adviser Clark memo for President Reagan (“Meeting with British Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe”) [get acquainted meeting] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
83 Jul 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
US: FCO record of conversation (0337Z) (Howe-Reagan, Bush & others) [Howe raises areas of difficulty; Reagan does not respond] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
83 Jul 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: White House record of conversation (Reagan, Bush, Shultz, Weinberger, Howe) [get acquainted meeting] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
83 Jul 14 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Belize: NSC memo to Clark (“Demarche to British Foreign Secretary”) [PM Price asks we press for retention of British garrison] [declassified 2011] |
|
|
83 Jul 16 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
USA: UKE Washington telegram 2026 to FCO (2110Z) (“Your Visit to Washington: 13-15 July”) [UK-US bilateral relations] [declassified 2014] |
|
|
83 Jul 18 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Rees memo circulated to Cabinet - C(83) 23 (Objectives for Public Expenditure - The Longer Term and the 1983 Survey) [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Jul 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Ivory Coast: No.10 minute to MT ("Lunch for the President of the Ivory Coast on Wednesday, 27 July") [guest list] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Jul 26 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Overseas Aid: Howe minute to MT ("Aid/trade provision: Medellin Metro Colombia") [assessment of project viability & consent to project funding] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Jul 28 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Howe PS (East/West relations) [various media & academic articles; copy of Shultz testimony to Senate Foreign Relations Committee] [declassified Aug 2013] |
|
|
83 Aug 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic policy: Howe minute to Rees (“BBC external services”) [MT concerns about “increasing pay… while retaining overmanning and inefficiency”] [declassified 2013] |
|
|
83 Aug 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Trade: Cecil Parkinson letter to Geoffrey Howe ("The Renewal of the United States Export Administration Act") ["strategy to counter the use of the... Act to impose controls extraterritorially on companies in this country"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Aug 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Angola: MT letter to Sir James Scott-Hopkins MEP (Angola: UNITA) [Jonas Savimbi; MPLA govt; British personnel working in the diamond mines] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Sep 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Science and technology: Department of Energy letter to Cabinet Office ("PM's Seminar") [Science, Technology and Industry: background info on Weir Pumps Ltd's new down-hole pump for BP North Sea oil drilling] [declassified Jan 2014] |
|
|
83 Sep 14 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT ("The Prime Minister's Talks with Chancellor Kohl: 21 September 1983") [steering brief and annexes] [declassified July 2017] |
|
|
83 Sep 15 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT: Coles minute to MT ("Overseas Visits: Dress") [briefing on clothing and MT notes on clothes to wear] [released 2013] |
|
|
83 Sep 17 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Hungary: Vice-Presidential Memcon (Bush meeting with Ceausescu) [four hour conversation] [declassified 2010] |
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83 Sep 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Hungary: Vice-Presidential Memcon (Bush meeting with Kadar) [Kadar’s views of Andropov] [declassified 2010] |
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83 Sep 19 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hungary: Prime Minister Lázár speech (toast to Vice President George Bush) [‘normalized’ relations with US; different social systems, common need for peace] [declassified 2014] |
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83 Sep 20 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Middle East: National Security Council minutes (1500Z) ("Review of US-China Relations") (NSC 0089) [Shultz: "our relations with them are in reasonably good shape right now"] [declassified Nov 2001] |
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83 Sep 21 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US & Canada: Acland letter to Armstrong ("Prime Minsiter's Visit to Canada and the United States: 25-30 September") [draft 'game plans'] [released 2013] |
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83 Sep 22 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Peter Rees ("BBC External Services: The Pay Problem") [subjection to cash limits] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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83 Sep 22 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference for the Association of American Correspondents in London |
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83 Sep 24 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKHC Ottawa (“Future of Hong Kong”) [UK/China talks] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Sep 27 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: NSC briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
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83 Sep 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2791 to FCO (1515Z) ("US/Soviet relations") ["US thinking"] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 Sep 28 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: Butler minute to MT (checklist for MT's discussion with Reagan) [released 2013] |
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83 Sep 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
MT Engagement Diary |
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83 Sep 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Reagan) [first meeting: Lebanon, East/West, arms control, KAL007, INF, Belize, US supply of arms to Argentina] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Sep 29 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: UKE Washington to FCO ("British and French Forces") [Vice President Bush misreported as saying that British and French nuclear forces should be included in arms control negotiations] [released 2013] |
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83 Sep 29 Th |
Multimedia |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
White House photos: MT visiting Reagan at the White House (greeting George Bush Sr.) |
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83 Sep 29 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for CBS (visiting Washington) |
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83 Sep 29 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference after meeting President Reagan |
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83 Oct 1 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
US: UKE Washington telegram 2838 to FCO (1500Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Washington, 28-30 September") [account of MT's visit] [released 2013] |
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83 Oct 2 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Hungarian National Archive) |
Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (talks with FCO & others) [positive assessment of Howe visit to Budapest] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013] |
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83 Oct 6 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(83) 29th (Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs) [declassified 2013] |
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83 Oct 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Arms control and disarmament”) [MT requests paper on latest position and advice on scope for British initiative] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Oct 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
China: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("China") [Heath, Deng Xiaoping records of conversations on 6th and 10th September 1983] [released Jul 2017] |
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83 Oct 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Saudi Arabia: No.10 letter to Ronald Smith (Helen Smith) [circumstances of death] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 Oct 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3078 to FCO (1510Z) ("Grenada") [US military manoeuvres; possible evacuation of British citizens] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Oct 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3076 to FCO (1510Z) ("Grenada") [US military manoeuvres; possible evacuation of British citizens] [released 2013] |
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83 Oct 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: FCO Sitrep ("ODEM: 1000, 24 October, 1983") [situation in Grenada and international response] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Oct 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Grenada: UKE Washington telegram 3130 to FCO (2319Z) ("Grenada: Secretary Shultz's Press Conference") [Shultz sets out US rationale for intervention] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Oct 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("Lebanon: Meeting of MNF Foreign Ministers in Paris 27 October") [record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 Oct 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Grenada) [released 2013] |
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83 Oct 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
India: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Indian Minister for External Affairs: 1 - 4 November") [US invasion of Grenada; MT visit to India/Commonwealth HoG meeting; Steering Brief] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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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 14 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Peter Rees minute to Geoffrey Howe ("BBC External Services: The Pay Problem") [should rigorously scrutinise BBC spending plans] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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83 Nov 28 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKHC New Delhi ("Lebanon") [situation report; Falklands; Bangladesh; UN/arms control] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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83 Nov 30 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1600Z) ("Strategic Defense Initiative") (NSC 0096) [declassified Dec 2005] |
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83 Dec 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Falklands: President's Assistant for National Security Affairs memorandum to President Reagan ("Argentine Certification") [published 2015] |
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83 Dec 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Hungarian National Archive) |
Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (MT visit) [discussions with FCO & CND] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013] |
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83 Dec 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“US arms sales to Argentina”) [draft message conveying UK concerns] [declassified 2013] |
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83 Dec 3 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3650 to FCO (184Z) (message to Shultz on arms sales to Argentina) [US gives confidential assurance to consult UK prior to any sales] [declassified 2013] |
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