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Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Chancellor’s Statement, Rhodesia, Anthony Blunt) [Blunt timing not attempt to ‘knock off’ the economic story] [released 2010]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge: INGH 2/1/2
Editorial comments: 1100. A second briefing took place at 1730, notes on which follow those on the first.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 3pp
Themes: Executive (appointments), Commonwealth (Rhodesia-Zimbabwe), Monetary policy, Taxation, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Security services & intelligence