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Date range: 4 May 1979 – 28 Nov 1990. Document type: Declassified documents.

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PDF 90 Nov 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Sainsbury record of conversation (Tim Sainsbury, Chief of DIDA Vahit Erdem) [Turkish/British collaboration in defence industry] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKA Jedda telegram to FCO ("Defence Secretary's Visit to Saudi Arabia: Meeting with Saudi Defence Minister") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2784 to FCO (2359Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Next Steps at the UN: Arab/Israel") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2783 to FCO (2357Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Next Steps at the UN") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2781 to FCO (2354Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Embassies in Kuwait") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2773 to FCO (2345Z) (Iraq/Kuwait: Administration Policy on the Gulf) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2767 to FCO (0403Z) (Iraq/Kuwait: Criticism of President Bush's Gulf Policy) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1966 to FCO (0320Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Next Steps at the United Nations") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Butler minute for Powell ("The Iraqi Long-Range Gun Project") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Powell minute for MT ("Meeting of Ministers, The Gulf") [Defence Secretary's visit to Gulf, additional British forces, further UN resolution, MT's Paris meeting with Bush] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell ("Soviet views on the Gulf") [MT's draft reply to Gorbachev] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Chris Patten (capping in Scotland) [Rifkind's proposal to add to the "Lambeth" bill provisions for reducing charge levels inflated by under-collecction in earlier years] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Peter Morrison notes ("Bull points to media/press") ["The entire cabinet and the great majority of backbenchers of substance are totally behind her"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Kenneth Baker memo to MT (Party Leadership contest: campaign strategy) ["your overriding theme should be Party unity, under your leadership"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Morris minute to MT (Party Leadership contest) [Hurd and Major react on lunchtime news to Heseltine's leadership bid] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Media, Religion, Foreign, Leadership) [You are fighting for your political life as Howe urges MPs to mutiny] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: Baker's Visit to Moscow, 7-9 November") [Soviet Union pessimistic about a peaceful outcome & committed to US/Soviet Cooperation] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: Visit of Defence Secretary, 13-14 November") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2792 to FCO (2335Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") [no decission on the military option yet; UN cover; US domestic support] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1980 to FCO (1550Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Next Steps at the United Nations") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Powell, General Scowcroft) ["The Gulf: Strategic Objectives" - Powell presses for US response to British paper, Scowcroft writing tomorrow] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Cradock minute for MT ("War Aims") [legal aspects; military aspects; long-term security arrangements] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell ("Possible visit by the Prime Minister to the Gulf") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Douglas Hurd minute for MT ("Gulf crisis: extraction of British hostages and detainees in the event of hostilities") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MT letter to President Gorbachev (Soviet views on the Gulf crisis) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to Charles Powell ("London Economic Summit") [arrangements, possible association of USSR with the Summit, costs, Sherpas' meetings] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Scottish AEF for 1991-92: The RSG/NDRI Split") [Exchequer contribution to cost of reducing business rate burden in Scotland] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Education and Community Charge") [Helestine's proposals would cause major upheaval for local authorities] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge: Student Gap") [not considered a priority for legislation] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Tim Collins letter to No.10 (points to make against Heseltine) [plus possible strategic options] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Leadership) [MT is bookies' favourite 2-1 on] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Major PS minute to Barry Potter ("Prime Minister's Bilateral with the Chancellor") [Major corrects the record with regard to his view as to future exchange rate moves and interest rate cuts] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [interest rates cut; economic slowdown] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Griffiths minute for MT ("European Commission, ERM and Central Bank") [Minford says European Commission had sent paper to Treasury on UK economy which could provide ammunition against Howe] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Francis Maude minute to David Waddington ("IBA Transmission Privatisation: Economic Regulation") [regulation for Channel 5 sites, masts] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Telecon Sheinwald/Darroch: Programme for the December European Council") [draft timetable from Italian MFA] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2805 to FCO (2350Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council Debate on Rape of Kuwait") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Attorney General minute for MT (the United Kingdom's strategic objectives: destruction of Iraq's military capability) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: Tom King minute for MT ("Operation Granby: policy on repatriation of the dead") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: MOD minute for Powell ("The Gulf: Strategic and Military Objectives") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Local Government (Scotland: Business Rates)") [argument between Rifkind and Lamont] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Interest Rate Swaps") [use of local authority powers] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Whittingdale minute to MT ("Article for the Daily Telegraph") [MT uncomfortable naming Heseltine] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT letter to Chris Butler MP (Europe & the Party Leadership contest) [values his support] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Harris briefing for MT ("Interview with Simon Jenkins, Saturday, 17th November") ["Heseltine is a throwback - he and Kinnock ... are really twin souls"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chief Secretary PS note to No.10 ("Difficult Questions") [draft Q&A on recession, inflation, unemployment, public expenditure] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Barry Potter minute to MT ("The Economy") [excellent overview article in Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Peter Lilley minute to David Waddington ("IBA Transmission Privatisation: Economic Regulation") [regulatory formula for Channels 3, 4, S4C] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Gulf Crisis: Celebration of Christmas by British Forces in Saudi Arabia") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Nov 18 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Nigel Wicks ("London Economic Summit") [arrangements, theme, invitation to Gorbachev] [released July 2017]

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