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| Date | Category | Type | Value | Author/Source | Title |
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| 79 Apr 6 Fr | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: Canadian Embassy Rome telegram to Canadian Department of External Affairs (“Italian Elections - background & prospects”) [Andreotti Government 'Hari-Kiri'] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Apr 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKA Rome despatch to FCO (“Fourth and Fifth Andreotti Governments, March 1979 to March 1979”) [Communists pulled down government for internal reasons, PSI still 'mesmerised' by PCI, have "not yet lived up to the promise of their 1978 Congress in Turin"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Apr 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: FCO minute (“Fourth and Fifth Andreotti Governments, March 1979 to March 1979”) ["The DC/PCI arrangements failed fundamentally because Signor Andreotti never saw them as more than a stop-gap"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 May 8 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“The Italian political situation one month before the General Election”) ["little hope that the election will result in a stronger government"; polls show DC gaining, PCI losing a few points] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 May 17 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: Canadian Embassy Rome telegram to Canadian Department of External Affairs (“Italian Elections - aspects of campaigns”) [terrorism putting PCI on defensive, Andreotti under pressure also] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 May 22 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome letter to FCO (“Soviet and American views of the Italian internal situation”) [Soviets expecting PCI to lose votes, US agreeing] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 6 We | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian General Election: 3/4 June”) ["the Communist tide turned", electors turned to smaller parties, predicted DC gains did not happen] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 11 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKA Rome letter to FCO (“Farewell call on Signor Andreotti”) [Andreotti hopes to bring PCI into a position of 'non-belligerency'] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 25 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Andreotti confirms resignation allowing Pertini to begin search for new government] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jun 28 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [DC moving against Andreotti's policy of "some form of consensus" with PCI] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jul 5 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: HM Consul-General Milan despatch to UKE Rome (“The North-South Division in Italy”) ["a myth based on reality"] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Jul 30 Mo | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Pandolfi expected to form centre coalition in days] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Pandolfi fails to form centre coalition due to PSI opposition] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 2 Th | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: FCO internal minute (“Familiarisation trip to Italy: 24-25 July”) [Craxi fails to form government] [declassified 2009] |
| 79 Aug 14 Tu | Declassified documents |
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Major | Archive (TNA) | Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italian political situation”) [Cossiga government confirmed in office] [declassified 2009] |
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