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Text 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Sale of British Airways”) [possible litigation] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Athens telegram to Flash FCO ("Cyprus: Guarantor power consultations") ["Clear implication that Papandreou is looking to us to pull his chestnuts our of the fire..."] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO letter to No.10 (bilaterals at European Council, 4/6 Dec) [proposed programme; No.10 warns of Italian sensitivities to France, Germany and Britain concerting their positions] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Athens European Council: the Greek memorandum") ["...the Prime Minister should seek to dress up the benefits which Greece is already getting from the Community and those which she will get as a result of the decision to postpone for two years the introduction of VAT"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("European Council: political items") [Middle East; Cyprus; East/West relations; Afghanistan; Latin & Central America] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Cyprus: meeting between Mrs Thatcher and the Prime Minister of Greece") ["There is very little prospect in the present climate of our being able to play a successful leading role either in resolving the present crisis, or in contributing to the longer-term search for a solution..."] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("European Council, 4-6 December: opening remarks by the Prime Minister") [plain talking on need for consensus, and EU Budget contributions] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("European Community financing") ["short fact sheet" requested by MT] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("European Community: European Council of 4-6 December") ["...short glossary of the main terms which may be used in the discussion on the budget inequity..."] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Athens European Council: message from the Prime Minister to Papandreou") [Ambassador's discussion with Papandreou on budget issue] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1516 to FCO (0245Z) ("PLO in Lebanon") [Arafat request for UN flag to be flown on evacuation ships] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Washington telegram 3644 to FCO (2350Z) ("US Middle East policy") [Oliver Wright record of conversations with Richard Murphy & Raymond Seitz] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("EC/Israel/Lebanon") [Patrick Moberly, David Kinche record of conversation: "Israelis believe that Syria has lost the initiative in Lebanon and that it would be a tragic mistake if the Europeans helped Syria to recover it"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Lebanon internal") [situation report] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Lebanon: UKdel NATO telegram to FCO ("US/Israeli talks in Washington") [US report to NATO on Yitzhak Shamir visit] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Prime Minister Gandhi letter to MT (Heads of Government meeting in New Delhi and Goa) ["my congratulations on the constructive outcome"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute to MT ("TSRB Pensions") [Top Salaries Review Body: MT agrees to further meeting to try to resolve Heseltine/Hailsham dispute with Treasury over senior army officers'/judges' pensions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 ("European Community Financing") [fact sheet requested by MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Falklands: President's Assistant for National Security Affairs memorandum to President Reagan ("Argentine Certification") [published 2015]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("INMOS") [current financial position; sale options/risks] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 Policy Unit ("Follow up to Chequers Seminar on Industry and Employment") [progress report on remits given to Treasury by MT in September] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health letter to No.10 ("NHS Management Enquiry") ["restructuring of the DHSS to implement Griffiths [Report] in the NHS"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Dolours Price") [press reports that 1973 Old Bailey bomber intends to return to London in breach of release conditions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Lord Vaizey's request for a meeting to discuss proposed Study of Welfare State) [MT agrees to personal reply, meeting & use of civil service resources] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Younger letter to Tebbit ("Future Regional Industrial Policy: Draft White Paper") [assistance for relocation projects] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (Future Regional Industrial Policy: Draft White Paper) [Treasury revisions] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Jenkin letter to Tebbit ("White Paper on Regional Policy") [request for redraft] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chirac) [Athens Summit, French domestic politics, attitudes to EC taxation and enlargement, trade] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: No.10 minute to MT ("Soviet Prisoners Captured by the Afghan Resistance") [advice & redraft, at MT's request, of reply to Count Tolstoy regarding treatment of prisoners & possibility of UK asylum] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East/Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1600Z) ("Libya & Oil and Gas Export Control Issues") (NSC 0097) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Hugh Thomas letter to MT (conversation with Argentinian Ambassador to US) [Raul Alfonsin would like “to end the state of war between us”] [released 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (MT visit) [discussions with FCO & CND] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hungarian National Archive) Hungary: Hungarian Ambassador London to Foreign Ministry (MT visit date still uncertain) [“the visit is a constant source of discussion at every meeting”] [declassification date uncertain; accessed 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Commonwealth: MT letter to Prime Minister Gandhi of India (congratulations on success of New Delhi Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) EC: Prime Minister Papandreou of Greece letter to MT (plans for Athens European Council meeting) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: MT letter to Biffen (thanks for standing in for MT at Prime Minister's Questions three times in a row) [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Defence: MT letter to Peter Lilley MP (deployment of US Cruise Missiles to the UK) [dual control firing arrangements give UK "tantamount to a veto" on firing of nuclear weapons] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: UKE Beijing telegram to FCO (“Future of Hong Kong: Dinner with Yao Guang”) [“Our mutual understanding had been enhanced”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: FCO telegram to UKE Beijing (“Future of Hong Kong: Next Session of Talks”) [“The Chinese request to receive the rest of the working papers quickly is interesting”] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKE Athens telegram to FCO (“Cyprus: Guarantor Power Consultations”) [“Papandreou is looking to us to pull his chestnuts out of the fire”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: Howe PS briefing for MT (“Meeting between Mrs Thatcher and the Prime Minister of Greece”) [“only advantage in agreeing to take on the role of mediator would be presentational”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“The US economy”) [“The US economy is rushing forward on the back of easy money and a traditional Keynesian stimulus to the economy”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Howe message to UKE Brasilia (“Brazil: Financing”) [his letter to Maxwell-Hislop: the Brazil debt problem] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Department of Trade and Industry minute to No.10 (credit for Brazil) [hopes to resume offering export credits shortly; Turnbull & Treasury sceptical] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: UKE Washington telegram 3632 to FCO (1919Z) (“Argentina: Certification”) [Eagleburger said decision imminent, certification inevitable after elections] [declassified 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Coles to MT (“Threat to Shipping in the Gulf”) [Tony Parson’s minute] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (arms sales to Argentina) [Reagan defends US policy - MT sceptical] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“US arms sales to Argentina”) [draft message conveying UK concerns] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“French arms sales to Argentina”) [UK to express regret over French decision to lift ban] [declassified 2013]

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