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

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PDF 90 Jun 8 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [Germany; NATO/Warsaw Pact/US forces in Europe; MT visit to Kiev; US/Soviet summit; the nuclear deterrent; CSCE; Lithuania; biological weapons; Oleg Gordievsky; UK Embassy residence; Royal visit; environmental issues; the transition from socialism to a free market economy; Middle East; Israel/Soviet Jews] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Nick Ridley minute to MT ("Economic and Monetary Union") [promote regional groupings or currency arrangements; for trade "it is the Single Market which matters"; "To be alone in the 12 is not the end of the world, nor would we be alone if other candidates were allowed to join the EC"] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Aug 2 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf [uncertain response] [declassified 2012]
PDF 90 Aug 3 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf ["It's fortunate that Mrs Thatcher is at Aspen"] [declassified 2000]
PDF 90 Aug 4 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: National Security Council minutes on Persian Gulf [military options] [declassified 2000]
PDF 90 Aug 4 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: White House record of phone conversation (President Bush-Saudi King Fahd) [Bush: "We need your view on a US force presence [in Saudi Arabia]"; Fahd: "We think we have a few days to coordinate, to make a tight, successful plan"] [declassified Aug 2009]
PDF 90 Aug 5 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: National Security Council minutes [covert options; UN; Saudi Arabia] [declassified2000]
PDF 90 Sep 30 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush, General Scowcroft, Charles Powell; James Baker in part) ["The Gulf Crisis: the Military Option"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversations (MT, President Bush; No.10, UKMIS New York; Charles Powell-Scowcroft) ["Security Council resolution: killings in Jerusalem"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-De Klerk at Chequers) [De Klerk worried Mandela losing grip on the ANC; annex records MT would love to visit South Africa, but only when there had been "substantial progress in negotiations"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
PDF 90 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Gulf, etc: MT note ("Notes for reply to President Bush phone call Oct 1990") [no option to play it long] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, US Defense Secretary Cheney, Tom King) [military situation in the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 16 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Butler minute for Powell ("Gulf Business Note") [summarises work in preparation and agenda for OD(G) for following month; MT critical, worried over leaks] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, President Bush) [Bush "agreed that the key calculation was whether we had the luxury of giving sanctions time to work"; disagreement over reprovisioning Embassies in Kuwait and necessity of a further 'provocation' to justify use of force] [declassified Jul 2017]
Text 90 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Key Bush & Scowcroft memoir Gulf War: MT letter to George Bush ("we should go sooner rather than later") [excerpt]
PDF 90 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (General Scowcroft-Charles Powell) [reprovisioning/evacuation of US Embassy in Kuwait; US confusion as to events at the UN] [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 27 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand lunch in Rome) [agriculture/GATT; European political union; Germany; EMU; Turkey; EBRD; EC membership; USSR; the Gulf; Defence co-operation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Nov 3 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Powell, General Scowcroft) [background for MT forthcoming talk with President Bush: Administration debates] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 7 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UK position paper ("Iraq/Kuwait: UK Position Paper") [Strategic Objectives, Military Objectives, Guidance to military commanders, Co-ordination with allies] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 9 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Gulf War: Jim Baker note for President Bush (meeting MT & Hurd) [declassified 1999]
PDF 90 Nov 24 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Turnbull memorandum ("Prime Minister's resignation, 22 November 1990") [events 20-22 Nov] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Bush Library) Resignation: President Bush letter to MT (regrets) ["your wisdom and determination"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 90 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Gulf War: ("Iraq/Kuwait") [UK position paper] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 04 Jun 26 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) MT: MT to Nancy Reagan (death of her husband) ["History will view him as one of America's greatest Presidents"]

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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