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PDF 90 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure: Defence") [p0ssible solution to the gap between Lamont and King's positions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Child Benefit and PES") [family premium proposals] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2550 to FCO (0050Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: new regional security arrangements") [State Department thinking relayed by Dennis Ross; premature to go into detail] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1687 to FCO (0430Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") [SG briefs Council on decision not to send his mission; growing pressure for a new resolution] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1690 to FCO (0455Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: Military Staff Committee") [US agree MSC meeting, but MT opposes because "no agenda or purpose"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Eastern Province: contingency planning") [advice to UK citizens] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Proposed meeting with King Fahd: present Saudi thinking") [to discuss timing - "risk of diminishing appetite for a fight, and concern that time turning against Alliance"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Foreign Minister Primakov and others) [Primakov describes visit to Saddam; urges face-saving "flexible linkage" of withdrawal from Kuwait to Arab/Israeli problem; MT emphatically rejects approach - Saddam "a dictator pure and simple", "We must NOT offer him blandishments"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC/Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Andreotti) [Italian politics; Cossiga state visit; European Council; the Gulf; GATT; CSCE; aid to USSR; South Africa; seat of the institutions; IGCs; EC/US; Gorbachev; Libya] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Mr Heath's Press Conference") [Heath states "assurance from Saddam that a number of detainees would be released"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [diplomatic (Heath Mission, situation at UN, Primakov, Kuwait Embassies, Jordan etc), military, oil] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 21 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) EC/Italy: Powell minute to MT's diary secretary ("European Council, Rome") [MT wants a briefing meeting ideally on Friday] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Prime Minister's interview with Al-Hayat newspaper") [draft answers for written interview] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation ("The Gulf: French views") [Charles Powell, Jacques Attali] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Brent Scowcroft) ["Americans... very unhappy about the way things were going at the [UN]"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Horst Teltschik) [clarification that Heath visited Baghdad in private capacity; FRG government under heavy pressure to allow Willy Brandt to undertake similar mission] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("The Gulf") [meeting with Hurd & Tom King: strategic objectives; sensitive issues] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Prime Minister of Japan letter to MT ("The Gulf") [report of his visit to Middle East] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 216 to Cabinet Office (2242Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: technical and scientific aspects") ["could possibly produce a crude nuclear device by the end of this year"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 215 to Cabinet Office (2232Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: politics and economics") ["Saddam confident of his internal position. CIA concerned about the continued reliability of some of the Arabs [coalition allies]... if [Saddam] thinks war imminent, he will take preemptive action"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1695 to FCO (1935Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") ["Exchanges with the Americans, Yemenis and PLO... in light of events in the Occupied Territories over the weekend"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Situation in Kuwait") ["a dying city... non-Iraqi population evacuating"; Iraqi military morale reported to be low] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Child benefit") ["Either a further freeze or up-rating child benefit would... be clear and defensible on grounds of principle. But Tony Newton's proposal would not"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Ingham minute to MT ("Presentation post-Bournemouth/Eastbourne") [government and party "need to be made to snap out of it .... It's later than they think"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Middle East, Politics, Community Charge) [American mood on Iraq] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 minute for Powell (arrangements for President Cossiga's address to Parliament) [order of play] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Cossiga) ["discussion was largely of a philosophical nature about the problems of modern society, including criminality, drugs and terrorism"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Lilley minute to Chris Patten (Community Charge Capping 1991/92) [a firm line must be taken] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge 1991/92") [distribution of TSS] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to David Hunt (consultation papers) [job-related accommodation] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Ken Clarke briefing to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [must not set local government impossible targets] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC/Gulf: FCO minute to Powell ("Bilateral with Chancellor Kohl: Special European Council, Rome, 27/28 Oct 1990") [German financial support for British deployment to Gulf; aid to Jordan] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Delors letter to Hurd ("Commission opinion of 21 Oct 1990 on the proposal for ... political union") [mentioned in Boris Johnson Telegraph article] [declassified Spt 2019]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [ERM entry; interest rate cut; public spending round] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to Privy Council Office ("Scrutiny Debate on Economic and Monetary Union") [Chancellor wishes one to take place before Dec 1990 IGC] declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to Chief Whip's PS ("Motion for ERM Debate 23 October") [motion agreed with No.10 for tomorrow's debate] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Barry Potter minute to Lilley PS ("1990 PES: Post Office, ECGD") [first priority is to seek efficiency savings] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Lamont PS minute to Barry Potter ("Public Expenditure Survey: Progress Report") [top priority must be to defeat inflation and maintain confidence in economic policies] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Lamont PS ("1990 Public Expenditure: Defence") [Lamont and King should resume discussions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2561 to FCO (2322Z) ("US/Soviet Relations: Baker's Speech to the American Committee on US/Soviet Relations") [summary/analysis] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Tom King) [major issues in advance of military operations against Iraq: "downfall [of Hussein]... would be a desirable side-effect of our actions"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO minute to No.10 ("Iraqi missile deployment") [SCUD-type missile identified; likely to be more; notifying Israel] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO minute to No.10 ("Iraq/Kuwait") [Waldegrave meeting with Charles Jones & Peter Gummer of Shandwick PR firm: note of their advice on state of US public opinion] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1710 to FCO (0325Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Next Steps Resolution") ["ways of dealing in parallel with the Gulf crisis and the situation in the Occupied Territories"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1704 to FCO (0150Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: Military Staff Committee") ["high-level meeting of MSC members"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("draft Social Security Uprating statement") [suggested amendments] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Social services: No.10 minute (internal) to Turnbull (policy changes agreed during course of annual Public Expenditure Surveys) ["two reasons why such agreements should be brought to the attention of other Ministers"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lamont, Tony Newton, Tim Renton) ["Social Security uprating 1991-92"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social services: Howe letter to Tony Newton ("DSS legislation 1990-91: child maintenance") ["I am unhappy about embarking on this bill on the basis you propose"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Politics, Child Benefit) [Hussein in Kuwait] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (Delors press conference) [pre-Rome European Council review; Delors suggests December Council should set date for EMU Stage 2, with only two hour talk on political union] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Charge Capping 1991-92") [impact on school provisions] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Waddington minute to Chris Patten (Charge Capping) [police and fire authorities] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Foreign Affairs Council: 22 Oct 1990") [Carli report on EMU to be forwarded to European Council, Italian presidency advising that preparatory work was complete] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 471 to FCO (1400Z) ("Turksat") [BAe hopeful again following suspension of Turkish negotiations with Aerospatiale] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: George Bush letter to Israeli PM (Yitzhak Shamir) [declassified 1999]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1731 to FCO (1445Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") ["Negative Israeli reaction to latest US approach over Secretary General's mission. Americans instructed to seek amendments to non-aligned draft resolution, to enable them to vote in favour"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1730 to FCO (0145Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") ["Americans adopt my idea of a last attempt to get the Secretary-General's representative into Israel... but unless... [they] can pull off a coup with Shamir, there seems no way in which they can avoid a [UN resolution] vote on 24 October"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2589 to FCO (2355Z) ("The Gulf: authority for the military option") ["US Administration considered that Article 51 gave sufficient authority... [but] it would be much easier to obtain Congressional acquiescence ... [if] authority given by the international community"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["Kohl... most concerned that Saddam Hussein could succeed in his obvious tactic of trying to divide the West by selective release of hostages"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Foreign nationals in Iraq") ["French nationals... allowed to leave Iraq... a clear example of attempted wedge-driving"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Riot at site") [protest by Western hostages] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Parkinson minute to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Embargo Surveillance Centre) [welcomes MT visit and provides brief outline of the Centre's functions] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 letter to MT (letter from the Prime Minister of Kuwait) [seeks advice as to whether reply needed] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Statement on the Middle East") [draft of Hurd's address to the House: Iraq/Kuwait; Israel] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Hurd minute to Tom King ("Rolls Royce: engines for an Argentine frigate") [sale of spare parts to facilitate Argentine contribution to multinational force in the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: President of the Commission of the EC letter to MT (financial assistance for countries most immediately affected by the Gulf crisis) [Turkey, Egypt, Jordan; UK concerns about EC decisions involving major expenditure] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKrep Brussels telegram to FCO ("European Council: Rome: 27/28 October 1990: EC issues") [Soviet Union/Eastern Europe; GATT/agriculture; EMU; political union] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign policy/EC: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [European Council in Rome; Ambassador to South Africa; "You might also needle Delors about his reported comments on a federal Europe"] [declassified Jul 2019]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social services: Newton PS letter to No.10 (Social Security uprating) [final draft of Tony Newton statement to Parliament] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Ted Heath, Economy, EC) [hostages in Iraq] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Hunt minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rate Poundages") [transitional arrangements for SMEs] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Italian PM Andreotti letter to MT (Rome European Council agenda) [no mention of GATT Uruguay round] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UK Permanent Representative Brussels minute to FCO ("European Council: draft conclusions") [Kerr commentary on text he had acquired] [declassified Spt 2019]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Council: FCO briefing for Foreign Secretary ("Special European Council, Rome: SoS's bilateral with the PM, 25 October") [agenda] [declassified Spt 2019]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Council: FCO briefing for MT ("Special European Council, Rome: Brief No.1 Political Union") [objectives, points to make and background] [declassified Spt 2019]
PDF 90 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute for MT ('EMU') [MT should study carefully Commons speech by John Smith, seeking to drive wedge between her and Major over EMU] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1734 to FCO (0317Z) ("Secretary General's mission to Israel") ["Resolution deploring Israel's refusal to receive mission... passed unanimously... Bein (Israel) accused the Council of having been diverted from the real issue of Iraq/Kuwait"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2602 to FCO (2128Z) ("Ad hoc consultations of members of the Military Staff Committtee (MSC)") ["US express "disappointment" that UK will not be sending senior military representative... for meeting on 29 October"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 note to MT (overnight telegrams & article in Times newspaper) ["this week-end's unnecessary European Council"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 minute: Cradock to Powell ("The Gulf: US views on UN authority for military action") [MT endorses US reservations about practicality of obtaining a further UN resolution as a precedent to military action] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [UN resolution; letter to Emir of Kuwait: Article 51; Primakov peace mission; US intentions; British communities at risk; Saudi views; meeting with Mitterrand; Iraqi intentions; sanctions; Chief of Defence Staff meeting with Gen Powell; Iraqi missiles] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO telegram 1845 to UKE Washington (0845Z) ("Quadripartite meeting of Political Directors: Gulf") ["Agreement on short and long term aims, including need to limit Iraqi military threat after crisis. US attaches importance to international approbation for any military action... Arab/Israel peace process"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Hurd, Heath) [Heath's report of his meetings with Saddam Hussein and King Hussein of Jordan; Heath "critical of the trend of our policy"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-Hurd) [too risky to invite Gorbachev for a State Visit in 1991] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("European Council in Rome") ["It is set to be a fairly trying occasion" - European political union; EMU; USSR & Eastern Europe; the Gulf; trans-Atlantic relations; sites of EC institutions; Greek loan] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont ("Community Charge Demand Notice") [proposed revisions] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Merseyside) [police will be staging major operation; allegations against the city council] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) European Council: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("European Council: European Monetary Union") [must stick to line that Hard Ecu COULD evolve into a single currency] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (IRA, Gulf, EC) [IRA's "human bombs" attacks in Londonderry and Newry] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Finance 1991-92 Charge-Capping") [opposed to any dilution of the criteria] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC/GATT: MT letter to Italian PM Andreotti (Rome European Council agenda) ["we may need to have a good discussion of the GATT Uruguay round"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC/France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("European Council 27/28 Oct and the PM's bilateral with meeting with Pres Mitterrand: scene setter") [sees EC issues through prism of Franco-German balance; Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO telegram to UKE Rome ("Secretary of State's bilateral with De Michelis on 25 October") [Council agenda; "foresaw no difficulty in round table discussion of political union in Rome", might be possible to fix starting date for Stage 2 ] [declassified Spt 2019]
PDF 90 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: Howe PS record of conversation (Howe-Major-Ibbs) [planning and control of expenditure on the works service vote] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Hurd minute for MT ("Special European Council, Rome: 27/28 October") [Italians want to focus on preparations for the two IGCs; wants target date for transition to EMU Stage II] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: FCO record of conversation (Hurd-Kohl) ["Special European Council in Rome" - hostages in Iraq; date for transition to EMU Stage II, GATT] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1748 to FCO (1400Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") ["Next Steps resolution... 'peace offensive' draft... The optimism evident at the earlier meetings was quickly dissipated as the Yemenis and Cubans engaged in a prolonged filibuster"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2617 to FCO (2121Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["Americans are under no illusions that air power alone could bring victory... no US led offensive is likely until the higher lever [of US ground forces] can be reached... support [of US public] for the President's Gulf policies... remains pretty steady"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to MODUK ("UK journalists in Saudi Arabia") ["Assurances from the King that British press corps should not decrease in numbers"] [declassified Jul 2017]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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