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Text 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKMIS New York telegram 1442 to FCO (2117Z) (“Cyprus”) [de Cuellar statement on UDI] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Sonny Ramphal circular to Heads of Delegation (outline declaration on international security) [Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Antony Acland minute to No.10 PS (“Commonwealth functional cooperation”) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Robert Armstrong minute to Antony Acland (Prime Minister of New Zealand draft statement of economic action) [Heads of Government meeting] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Cable and Wireless Share Sale”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Baker letter to Selwyn-Gummer (“The sale of BT shares”) [“the largest measure of de-nationalisation that has occurred anywhere in the world”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to MT ("Common Agricultural Policy: milk") ["while I recognise that we... [may] have to be prepared to accept the supplementary levy in Athens... I do want you and Geoffrey Howe to understand the implications"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Paris ("French counter-strike in the Lebanon") [advice from Howe] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: UKE Belgrade despatch to FCO ("Visit of the Yugoslav Prime Minister to Britain: 15-18 November") [account of the visit] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: Treasury minute to Coles (the multilateral aid to Yugoslavia) [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Jenkin minute to MT ("Personnel Work in the Civil Service) [relaxation of central controls] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKDel NATO telegram to FCO ("INF briefing of NAC by Ambassador Nitze") [summary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("ICL") [chairmanship transition; BT purchasing choice between UK company International Computers Ltd and IBM] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Involving the Boroughs in Inner London Education") ["running of their schools within the overall control of the new joint-board ILEA... [Dept of Education] proposals would be a great step forward in giving the boroughs a real say in the day-to-day administration of their schools"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: Eagleburger memorandum to Shultz ("Presidential Certification of Argentina") [published 2015]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Kenneth Clarke letter to Peter Rees (reducing the NHS drugs bill) [details of final proposals to be put to the pharmaceutical industry] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Posts and telecommunications: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS ("Sale of BT Shares") ["dividing line between Party and Government and between information and propaganda"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Trade Policy: Standstill and Rollback") [line to take at Foreign Affairs Council; "rollback is proceeding too slowly"; Tebbit paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: FCO telegram 447 to UKE Islamabad (1253Z) ("Soviet Defectors from Afghanistan: Daily Mail") ["a vivid account of conditions facing Soviet troops... low morale, corruption, war weariness, and disease"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Mount minute to MT ("The Pound Note and the Pound Coin") [phasing out of pound note "likely to be highly unpopular and particularly calamitous in present political circumstances"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Spain: MT message to Prime Minister Gonzalez of Spain (MT supports Spanish accession to the EC) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Andropov message to MT (deployment of US Cruise Missiles to the UK) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Aid: President Diouf of Senegal letter to MT (request for further help in fight against river blindness/onchocerciasis) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Youde telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong”) [SY Chung: “we have reached a cross-roads in the talks”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Brazil”) [events since PM's meeting on 16 Nov - IMF and Paris Club agreements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Civil Commissioner of the Falkland Islands telegram to FCO (“Destefanis”) [detained on ship after attempted illegal entry as stowaway] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Administration of mortgage interest relief”) [scope for Inland Revenue manpower savings] [declassified 2013]
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