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PDF 79 Jan 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Rowlands minute to Owen ("Falkland Islands: Anglo/Argentine Negotiations in Geneva from 18-20 December") [account of talks] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jan 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Ted Rowlands MP-Falklands Councillors) [Southern Thule incident, maritime co-operation with Argentia, internal Falklands matters] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jan 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italy and the Guadeloupe meeting”) [Italian concerns over a “four power directorate”] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Jan 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Port Stanley to FCO ("Minister's Meeting with Falkland Island Councillors: Draft Agreement on Scientific Activity in the Dependencies") [proposed agreement "met with a negative response"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jan 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti government looking increasingly insecure] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Jan 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti likely to resign next week] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Jan 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO telegram to UKE Rome (“Guadeloupe summit: Italian reactions”) [Italian démarche & bout de papier] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Gromyko’s visit to Rome: 22/26 January”) [Italian briefing on visit] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Communist withdrawal, Andreotti resignation] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti attempting to form another govermment, in negotiations] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti’s attempts to form a government ground to a halt] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti has given up attempt to form government] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Washington letter to FCO (“US/Italy”) [leak of US paper criticising Italian security services] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 23 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome minute (“Political situation”) [DC journalist talks of La Malfa, Andreotti, Craxi] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“PSDI views on the political situation”) [conversation with Party Secretary, Pietro Longo] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO internal minute (“Quadripartite meeting of political directors, Wednesday 26 February”) [reasons for PCI intransigence, likely strategy] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome minute to FCO (“Guadeloupe etc”) [transcript of interview with Federal Chancellor] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Feb 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome minute (“Italian political situation”) [deadlock - PCI insisting on participation in new government, DC refusing] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Lockheed bribes trial”) [political impact of the verdict] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [La Malfa gives up attempt to form government; stalemate continues] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Paris letter to FCO (“Italian reaction to the Guadeloupe summit”) [French “not at all disturbed”] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti accepts mandate "without reservation" to form new government] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Owen minute to Callaghan ("Falkland Islands: Anglo/Argentine Negotiations") [account of talks] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome minute (“Malta/Italy”) [Italians asked to remove military mission from Malta] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [Callaghan accepts Owen's advice on handling next round of Falklands talks] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [potential composition of parliamentary majorities] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [widespread assumption Andreotti will fail to win vote of confidence, new elections will follow] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sindall note ("Falklands: File Note") ["no prospect of selling any Falklands settlement to Parliament or the Islanders given their present view of the dispute with Argentina"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Negotiations on the Falkland Islands in New York (21-23 March 1979) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti presented names of three party government to Pertini] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal letter to Callaghan (Lusaka Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) [subjects for discussion] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [list of Andreotti’s new ministers] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram to FCO (2232Z) ("Anglo-Argentine Talks on the Falkland Islands: New York 21-23 March") ["cordial, difficult, but on the whole successful"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to Treasury (“Scandal at the Bank of Italy”) [arrest of Deputy Director-General] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian Political Situation”) [timetable for presentation of Andreotti’s new government] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Mar 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKHC Malta letter to FCO (Italy-Malta relations) [withdrawal of Italian mission] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 1 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to HM Treasury (“Scandal at the Bank of Italy”) [government reaction “sharp”] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti government defeated in the Senate, Andreotti resigned, Parliament dissolved] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: FCO internal minute (“Guadeloupe summit: Italian reactions”) [Italian allegations of Gaullist practices] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian Political Situation”) [elections scheduled for June] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKHC Malta letter to FCO (“Malta’s foreign relations”) [talks with France, Italy] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to HM Treasury (“Scandal at the Bank of Italy”) [account of events] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Italo-Cuban relations”) [Italians have cultivated close relations with the Cubans] [declassified Dec 2009]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by the Taoiseach: 10 May 1979") [Lynch would like to meet new PM] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hunt minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [initial advice to new PM] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to FCO ("Visit by the Taoiseach: 10 May 1979") [appropriate for new PM to offer Lynch a short courtesy call] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (Energy, EC, East/West, etc) [master copy of whole briefing set][declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“Summary and Timetable of Urgent Economic Issues”) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“The Budget”) [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Incoming brief: Cabinet Secretary’s incoming brief for new PM (“Pay and Cash Limits”) [declassified 2009]

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