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Broadcasting: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("Mr J G Anderson: Direct Broadcasting by Satellite in the UK") ["represents US satellite manufacturing interests... seeks to denigrate and misrepresent the proposals of the... consortium... which the BBC had selected to provide a DBS satellite... [suggest] a neutral reply on the lines of the attached draft"] [declassified Jan 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1172 f80
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 9pp
Themes: Industry, Public spending & borrowing, Trade, Foreign policy (USA), Media, Science & technology, British relations with the US