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83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Manpower: Tom King minute to MT ("Review of the Hotel and Catering Industry Training Board") [announcement to Parliament on future of the Board] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Nationalised Industries References to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC)) [Scottish airports] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet Unofficial Peace Movement") [attempts to hand over MT reply; press release; protest to Russians] [declassified Dec 2018]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Greece: FCO note for the reccord (Williamson-Papanicolaou) [possible Papanicolaou fact finding visit to Paris and Bonn] [declassified Dec 2017]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (the McGovern case) [John Coles, Dermot Nally] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Garret FitzGerald) [milk surpluses; the McGovern case/tensions between Irish and UK police forces] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Foreign Secretary record of conversation (incomplete text of Howe's notes of European Council) [includes some material from 6 Dec] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with President Mitterrand: Argentina") [relations with new government/US arms sales; EC Budget; agricultural reform; French intransigence; UK refund; industrial co-operation] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Bullard minute to Howe PS ("European Council: political co-operation items") [Middle East; Cyprus; Central America; Argentina; Afghanistan] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, FitzGerald) [EC: milk; Northern Ireland: security cooperation/McGovern case] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (McGovern case) [John Coles, Dermot Nally] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Soviet press conference: Middle East") [comment on US/Israeli intervention] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO ("US/Syria") [Luce comments to media regarding US military action] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram to FCO ("US/Syria") [Luce comments to media regarding US military action] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram to FCO ("Firing at BritForLeb") [Richard Luce, Walid Jumblatt: record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Firing at BritForLeb") [speculation & press comment] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Athens ("Lebanon") [Parsons minute outlining concerns about US policy & advising MT to contact Reagan directly] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: No.10 minute (internal) to Coles (Multinational Force: withdrawal of British contingent) [Rifkind answer to Draft Notice Question in Commons; "mood in the House... strongly critical of American policy"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Lebanon: President Assad letter to MT (US/Israeli intervention in the Lebanon) ["a threat to peace and security... in the world at large"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (electricity supply industries' EFL) [detail of last increase] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Whitelaw PS ("Public Expenditure Survey") [MT wants increased spending on programmes to be kept to a minimum] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil service: No.10 letter to Central Office of Information ("New technology in the GIS") [proposal for Government Information Service] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("INF: Soviet press conference") [arms control talks; Western deployment; Andropov's health] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: MT message to Andropov (Geneva Arms Control Agreement) ["we cannot accept that you should maintain a monopoly of intermediate range missiles in Europe... We deeply regret your decisions to suspend the Geneva negotiations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Department of Agriculture minute to No.10 ("CAP") [Common Agricultural Policy: EC negotiations/milk levy] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EC: MT notes from Athens European Council meeting (EC issues, EC budget) [released 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EC: MT speaking notes for Athens European Council meeting (EC budget) [released 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	EC: Briefing notes for MT bilateral meetings at Athens European Council (EC issues and budget) [released 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Lebanon: President Asaad of Syria letter to MT (situation in Lebanon) [released 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Ricketts letter to Coles (“Future of Hong Kong: Possible Visit by EXCO”) [“the odds probably are that the Unofficials themselves will press very hard for a visit and for reassurances on HMG’s position”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Hong Kong: Ricketts minute to Coles (“Hong Kong: Mr Robert Adley MP”) [Adley “has tended to be critical of the Hong Kong Government and of the Unofficials there in taking an unrealistic view of the negotiations”] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cyprus: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Papandreou) [brief exchange on tripartite consultations during Heads of Government dinner] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	US: UKE Washington telegram 3660 to FCO (2254Z) (“U.S. economy: latest developments”) [“the U.S. economy is undergoing a rapid expansion”] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	International economic policy: UKE Brasilia to FCO (“Brazil Financing”) [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic policy: Lawson minute for MT (“Argentina: Arms Sales and Bank Lending”) [review in light of possible US arms sales] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Falklands: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“Argentina”) [concerns over re-certification of Argentina as a potential purchaser of US arms] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Defence: Heseltine letter to Chairman of Independent Broadcasting Authority (“The Day After”) [request for interview in response to television drama about nuclear war] [declassified 2016]
83 Dec 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: FCO record of conversation (“informal record” of Athens European Council, 4/6 Dec) [second day - agriculture I, budgetary discipline, budgetary imbalances, agriculture II, after dinner discussion] [declassified Dec 2015]

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