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Subject: Foreign policy (USA). Document type: Declassified documents. Importance level: 1-Key.

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PDF 86 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 2768 to FCO (2200Z) (“Post-Reykjavik arms control negotiations”) [“Unsatisfactory discussion with Poindexter”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT notes (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["Alarmed by suggestion to eliminate in 10 years all strategic ballistic missiles … Security of West in danger"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT briefing cards (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["CAN'T trust RUSSIANS when taking a few tanks & columns out of Afghanistan - surely you wouldn't trust them over ballistic missiles"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) Cold War: Shultz Evening Reading Item for Reagan ("My meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher") [MT expressed extreme concern about the potential impact of the proposals made at Reykjavik ] [declassified 2013]
PDF 86 Dec 3 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: NSC note for ?Poindexter (MT letter to Reagan urging NATO commit to Camp David points) [declassified 2000]
PDF 86 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (Iran-Contra -"anything which weakens you weakens America") [declassified/released 2000]
PDF 87 Jan 30 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Percy Cradock, Charles Powell) ["Foreign Policy": MT sceptical of Gorbachev's plans for reform; concern that US still apparently working for elimination of strategic nuclear weapons; Afghanistan; China; Lebanon - no deals for hostage release] [released July 2016]
PDF 87 Mar 30 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [tête-à-tête] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Apr 1 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT message to President Reagan (Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union) [MT outlines her impressions of Gorbachev & her conclusions drawn from her visit] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 87 Jun 13 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​MT: Charles & Carla Powell letter to MT (congratulations) ["All the same, I hope that you will not put yourself through it again"] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Jul 11 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Visit to Washington") ["The task is at least to disguise the weakness of American leadership and to restrain any inclination to erratic and ill-thought out initiatives"] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Jul 11 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​Cold War: Charles Powell conversation record ("Seminar on the Soviet Union") [MT meets academics at Chequers; enthusiasts vs sceptics] [released Oct 2017]
Text 87 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT letter to President Reagan (concern at US deficit) [declassified 2007]
PDF 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Economy: President Reagan letter to MT (concern at US budget deficit) [fell by one third between 1986 and 1987;"my views on the potential harm of increased taxes have not changed"; with supporting documents] [declassified 2007 & 2021]
Text 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Reagan letter to MT (concern at US budget deficit) [fell by one third between 1986 and 1987;"my views on the potential harm of increased taxes have not changed"] [declassified 2007]
PDF 88 Sep 15 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: Cradock minute for MT ("China: position of Zhao Ziyang") [rumours his position under threat, but UKE in Beijing thinks it remains strong; Cradock thinks reform likely to slow down] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Colin Powell NSC briefing for President Reagan (MT visit to Washington) [declassified 2000]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: President Reagan briefing cards for MT visit (one-on-one meeting) [declassified 2000]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-President Reagan, tête-à-tête then plenary) [US deficit, Gorbachev, Latin America, START & Trident; Middle East, Soviets, Afghanistan, GATT] [declassified Nov 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: President Reagan letter to MT (farewell) ["You have been an invaluable ally, but more than that, you are a great friend"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: MT letter to Reagan ("you stood for all that is best in America") [declassified 2000]
PDF 89 Jan 19 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Reagan letter to MT (farewell) [declassified 2000]
PDF 89 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT letter to President Reagan (farewell) ["You have been a great President, one of the greatest, because you stood for all that is best in America"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT letter to President Bush (congratulations) ["You bring to the Presidency enormous experience in Government which will be of immense value"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 6 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 conversation record (MT-Gorbachev) [Introduction; International Attitudes to the Soviet Union; Perestroika; Defence and Arms Control; Regional problems; Moscow Embassy, President Bush, Central America, Namibia, etc; family unification; Royal visit to the USSR] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 29 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Howe, Lubbers, Van den Broek, Ruding) [Europe: nuclear deployment; Delors Report; economic & monetary union] [declassified Dec 2017]
Text 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Reagan article Ronald Reagan: Margaret Thatcher & the Revival of the West: Her Real Legacy [external link]
PDF 89 May 20 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: UKE Beijing to FCO ("Chinese Internal Situation") [US believes "Chinese Government has decided that there is no way to avoid bloodshed"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 1 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 conversation record (MT-President Bush) [NATO/East West relations and defence; Austrian membership of the EC; China; Vietnamese Boat People; Middle East; Lebanon; Southern Africa; Argentina; SDI; Environmental Questions; Cambodia; intelligence cooperation; IDU] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Jun 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Bush) [Tiananmen Square] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) China: No.10 minute for MT ('China') [situation developing "very fast", possible UK measures; "you can probably afford to step up further your condemnation of what is happening"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 29 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) China: White House/State Department memorandum ("Themes") [paper for Scowcroft/Eagleburger secret mission to Beijing] [declassified 1998]
PDF 89 Sep 23 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [Gorbachev's assessment of current internal situation; human rights/emigration; Eastern Europe; US/Soviet relations; arms control/chemical weapons/START; NATO/CFE/SNF; bilateral issues; environmentalism;China; Japan; Middle East; German unification/Warsaw Pact] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Nov 10 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT conversation record (MT-Kohl phone call) [fall of the Berlin Wall] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Nov 14 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) ["East/West Relations": "action required by the Government over the next week or so"] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Nov 24 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) USA: No.10 record of conversation (1500-1930Z) (MT, President Bush) [East/West relations; EC; China; Cambodia; Arab/Israel; Nicaragua; Afghanistan; Iran; Cyprus; Argentina; Defence spending; arms control; South Africa; Vietnamese refugees; India/Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Japan; Czechoslovakia; Australia/New Zealand; El Salvador] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Nov 24 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) USA: White House record of conversation (1500-1930Z) (MT, President Bush) [partial record] [declassified May 2009]
PDF 89 Dec 3 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Cold War: Bush-Kohl meeting record [memcon] (German unification) [declassified] [105K scan]
Text 90 Jan 20 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Cabinet Office) German unification: No.10 memorandum of conversation (MT & President Mitterrand) [prospect of unification had turned them into "the 'bad' Germans they used to be"] [declassified 2010]
Text 90 Jan 26 Fr Declassified documents Key Horst Teltschik diary Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Kohl angry at MT’s criticisms in Wall Street Journal interview) [translation]
PDF 90 Jan 27 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, King, Clark, Hamilton, Waldegrave, Cradock, Weston, Mottram, Appleyard, Powell) ["Diplomatic and Defence Implications of Recent Developments in East/West Relations"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Feb 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("FRG policy on the German Question: German political director gives read out on Genscher's talks with Baker") ["Kastrup says that the situation in the GDR is now so near collapse that the Federal Government is embarking immediately on economic and monetary union.. Kastrup claims that Baker is on board for this"; CDP: "This is it: the Germans are going full tilt for reunification without waiting for anyone"] [declassified Jul 2017]
Text 90 Feb 9 Fr Declassified documents Key Horst Teltschik diary Cold War: Horst Teltschik diary (Charles Powell explains MT’s point of view on German unification) [translation]
PDF 90 Feb 10 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: Powell letter to Wall ("Germany and NATO") ["To put it bluntly, we have to bear in mind - although not say - that we might one day need the Soviet Union as a counter-balance to a united Germany"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Cabinet Office) Cold War: Charles Powell letter to Timothy Garton-Ash (agenda for Chequers German seminar) [declassified 2007]
PDF 90 Mar 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Professor Gordon Craig, Profesor Fritz Stern, Lord Dacre, Professor Norman Stone, Timothy Garton-Ash, George Urban) [analysis of the anticipated role and character of a united Germany in Europe] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Cabinet Office) Cold War: Chequers Seminar on Germany (“Summary Record”) [declassified 2007]
Text 90 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) Cold War: US Ambassador (London) telegram to President Bush (British hopes for Thatcher-Bush Bermuda meeting) [declassified 1997] [external link]
PDF 90 Apr 13 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (State Department) Cold War: Bush-Thatcher meeting in Bermuda (record of conversation) [declassified 2003]
PDF 90 Apr 15 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Bermuda: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush) [Germany; NATO; nuclear arms in Europe; USSR; CSCE; COCOM; CFE; chemical warfare; Anglo-French defence; UK defence policy; Trident; Middle East; Central America; China; Hong Kong; Vietnamese refugees; S. Africa; Mozambique; Kashmir; Afghanistan; Cyprus; Argentina/Falklands] [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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